Impact of Particular Indicators of Urban Development of Cities in the Czech Republic on Average Road Traffic Intensity - Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation - page 76

1 Introduction

Since 1950s of the 20th century, cities of the Czech Republic have changed at a
varying extent due to their technical and social development with regard to two
different political and economic systems. Development and consequences of these
changes have re ected a quality of our living space in our present cities. All con-

sequences cannot be classi

fl

ed as positive. In order to avoid these negative conse-
quences, analysis of the history is needed. It was the main goal of the COST Project
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uences of human activities.
The project dealt with a detailed evaluation of relations among urban develop-
ment indicators to prepare a set of recommendations for a sustainable development
of urban areas. It was processed between 2010 and 2012 at the Department of
Mapping and Cartography of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at CTU in Prague.
Project included analysis of the cities of the Czech Republic from the point of view
of the road traf

Modelling of urban areas to lower the negative in fl

c and urban development determined by land use classes and some
statistical data. Land use classes called functional classes which consist of resi-

dential areas, production areas, recreational areas, other areas and transportation
areas. The project was originally processed for

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fifty cities. However, all data were
not available for all cities. Therefore only 36 cities were fully-processed.
This article is a part of a broader comparative study of the above-mentioned
COST project. The main topic of this paper is to analyse various attributes which
can in fl uence road traf c. These attributes as indicators of the cities ' development

are described in Chap. 3 . The relationship was processed within fifty selected cities

in the Czech Republic by a methodology which was developed by Vep ř ek [ 1 ].

c is an import source of air pollution, noise, and many other problems
of present life on one side and therefore it plays a substantial role in the urban area
environment. On the other side, the world has changed and relies very intensively
on road traf

Road traf

c. Land use in urban areas has an important in fl uence on road traf c

intensity, which is one of its characteristics in these areas. Road traf as

measured in the Czech Republic — is the number of various types of vehicles
passing through determined locations on selected roads in 24-h periods. The
analysis is based on seeking the dependency between road traf

c intensity —

c intensity and
particular land use and statistic indicators (Table 1 ). This relation is expressed by a
correlation coef cient CCAI (see Chap. 3 ).

2 Current State

Urbanisation as a phenomenon of the last 50 years is a phenomenon which occurs
in most countries of the world. It is the reason why urban development is analysed
by many authors in many countries. The goal of these analyses is to determine the
indicators which can be managed to lower the negative impacts of urbanisation
from the increasing noise and emissions of road vehicles, e.g.