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Impact of Particular Indicators of Urban
Development of Cities in the Czech
Republic on Average Road Traffic
Intensity
Vladim
í
r Holubec and Lena Halounov
á
Abstract This paper deals with the dependency between the development of road
traf
c intensity and several statistic and spatial indicators, which are monitored in
cities of the Czech Republic. Road traf
c intensity was used as the basic phe-
nomenon. The other city indicators are residential, productive, recreational and
other areas, population and many other indicators. This analysis is a part of a large
research focused on last 40 years in cities of various sizes, traits, and location in the
country during last 40 years in 10 years
time steps. Stagnating or even a decreasing
number of inhabitants of cities on one side and increasing road traf
'
c intensity is a
typical characteristic in most cities. The fact concerns both cars, and lorries;
motorcycle form of transport has receded for more than 80 % during these 40 years.
The paper shows that the urban development is strongly dependent on historical
developments of individual cities. It means that in
uence of individual indicators
varies in individual cities. There was an important difference between the period
before and after the political change in 1989. The aim of the paper was to analyse a
long period of urban development of a high number of Czech cities and to deter-
mine if their development can be generalized for all of them or it is more individual.
Future situation of cities can be more reliably derived from the historical devel-
opment of individual cities than from deep statistical analyses of a higher number of
cities. The result will help urban engineers for urban areas modelling.
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Keywords Land use
Development
Road traf
c intensity
Urban area
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