ÚZEMNÍ AGENDA EVROPSKÉ UNIE „PRO KONKURENCESCHOPNĚJŠÍ A UDRŽITELNOU EVROPU ROZMANITÝCH REGIONŮ“
ÚZEMNÍ PLÁNOVÁNÍ V SOUHRNNÉ ZPRÁVĚ VEŘEJNÉHO OCHRÁNCE PRÁV ZA ROK 2006
K DOKUMENTU ÚZEMNÍ AGENDA EVROPSKÉ UNIEOn the document Territorial Agenda of the European Union, by Karel Maier
The European Spatial Development Perspective, a key document for Europe’s sustainable development, was adopted eight years ago. Yet, the European Union and the whole world have changed considerably since then. The EU has been enlarged by a number of countries, mainly those in the Eastern part of the continent, with Europe and the world facing many a new challenge. This new material to be discussed by the EU’s regional development ministers contains important priorities the member states will be confronted with and reacting to, under their own conditions. The article is looking for the Czech interpretation of some specific priorities and related problems.
AKTUÁLNE VÝCHODISKÁ EURÓPSKEJ POLITIKY ÚZEMNÉHO ROZVOJA A ÚZEMNÁ AGENDA EU
Current Fundamentals of the European Policy of Spatial Development and the Territorial Agenda of the EU, by Maroš Finka & Ľubomír Jamečný
Officially presented as an action-oriented political framework for a prospective cooperation and development, Territorial Agenda of the European Union: Towards a more Competitive and Sustainable Europe of Diverse Regions is meant to support the sustainable economic growth and the social and environmental development throughout the EU, following the Lisbon and Gothenburg strategies. Successor to the European Spatial Development Perspective at every level of the management of spatial development, this document has to be reflected as a precondition for the efficiency of interventions through EU funds and national programmes, in both integrative and sectoral policies.
ÚZEMNÝ STAV A PERSPEKTÍVY EURÓPSKEJ ÚNIE – VÝCHODISKO A VÝZVA PRE POLITIKU ÚZEMNÉHO ROZVOJAThe Territorial State and Perspectives of the European Union: A Source and a Challenge for the Policy of Spatial Development, by Maroš Finka & Ľubomír Jamečný
The Territorial State and Perspectives of the European Union became the source document for the Territorial Agenda of the EU, adopted at the Leipzig ministerial conference in May 2007. This document is important for many more reasons, though, offering a better view of the situation in the territory of the European Union and providing general and comprehensive information for the solution of problems in spatial development and the decision-making at the levels of EU institutions, the member states, regions, municipalities, and other involved subjects. The document is to be understood as a reflection of the current knowledge, describing the state of the political discourse in Europe and inviting the representatives of the new member states to more intensively participate in the discourse and in the elaboration of EU analytic and concept materials, enhancing them and making them more objective.
KONCEPCE DOPRAVY ČR
HLAVNÍ KONCEPCE ROZVOJE V SEKTORU DOPRAVAPrincipal Development Concepts in the Sector of Transportation, by Vít Sedmidubský
The need to elaborate or update a number of essential documents for the prospective development of the Czech transportation sector became especially evident after the EU accession. Documents of this kind belong to the context of “oversectional” strategies, valid in the framework of subsidiarity for the European or regional or local levels. The article comments on the European and Czech documents and some related projects for the development of transportation networks.
ROZVOJOVÉ ZÁMĚRY NA ŽELEZNICIDevelopment Intents on Railways, by Jindřich Kušnír
As one of the aims of the current transportation policy, the government wants to increase the competitive strength of railways. Several renovation projects of the railway infrastructure are being prepared, the modernization of the transit railway corridors has been going on for some years now, and new options of the development of the railway infrastructure for long-distance and regional services are studied. Also planned, in a long-term lookout, is the construction of high speed tracks.
DOPRAVNÍ INFRASTRUKTURA V POLITICE ÚZEMNÍHO ROZVOJE ČRTransportation Infrastructure in the Spatial Development Policy of the Czech Republic, by Jaroslav Tušer
Based on the new wording of the Building Act, in vigour since January 2007, the Spatial Development Policy is a new document in the Czech physical planning system, dealing with the concept of national physical planning in international contexts. a key element of this concept, transportation, is conceived in view of the current needs of Central European interconnections, specifically concerning the accessibility of the territory of the Czech Republic. Priorities of the national physical planning are defined, with attention to both general and specific criteria of the objectives of transportation. The relation between transportation and other basic elements of spatial development, such as habitation, technical infrastructure, and landscape preservation, is discussed in close regard to the principles of sustainable development.
KONCEPCE ROZVOJE DOPRAVNÍ INFRASTRUKTURY V POLITICE ÚZEMNÍHO ROZVOJE ČRThe Concept of the Development of the Transportation Infrastructure in the Spatial Development Policy of the Czech Republic, by František Nantl
This contribution comments on the development of the transportation infrastructure as an important chapter of the Spatial Development Policy of the Czech Republic, a national physical planning document. Some important source documents which have to be evaluated and included in the prepared update of the Policy are mentioned first. In the following part, structured by the specific types of transportation and the interrelationship among them, the author tries to indicate the shifts in the solutions and the new tasks which the dynamic developments in the transportation infrastructure have brought after this first edition of the Spatial Development Policy.
ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA VE STŘEDOEVROPSKÝCH DOPRAVNÍCH SÍTÍCH
The Czech Republic in the middle of Central European Transportation Networks, by Milan Körner
This contribution is focused on the situation and intentions of the transportation infrastructures of the neighbouring countries to the Czech Republic, and Hungary, dealing with air, rail, road and, partly, water carriage. Except for a proposal for a few alterations in the main routes of the European road network, the territory of the Czech Republic is not taken into consideration. The autor points out the necessity to recognize the concepts of the neighbouring countries in order to build up one’s own transportation network and cooperate on the wider scale of Central Europe. The examples of Germany and Austria show that transportation development concepts should be based, apart from the obvious new constructions, upon efficient renovation of the existing networks.
Transportation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic, by Marie Wichsová
The article is focusing on the superior infrastructure of transportation in the Czech Republic from three viewpoints: one is the relation between the transportation infrastructure and the regional level of physical planning documentation based on the former Building Act, of 1976, while another is the relation between such infrastructure and the new physical planning tools (Spatial Development Policy of the Czech Republic; principles of the regional development) anchored in the 2006 Building Act, with regard to the new conditions of spatial development (intensified European integration, etc). Finally, some general ideas about the prospective arrangement and development of the superior infrastructure of road, rail, water, air, and cycling networks are outlined.
DOPRAVNÍ DOSTUPNOST FUNKČNÍCH MĚSTSKÝCH REGIONŮ A URBANIZOVANÝCH ZÓN V ČESKÉ REPUBLICETransportation Access of Functional Urban Areas and Urbanized Zones in the Czech Republic, by Karel Maier, Filip Drda, Ondřej Mulíček and Luděk Sýkora
The article summarizes the findings of the analytical part of a research project named Regional Polycentric Urban Systems in the Czech Republic. The identification of the potential for the development of polycentric systems, intending to balance the increasing gap between the capital of Prague and the rest of the country, revealed commuting and transportation access as factors of major importance.
At the local level, the research has identified 150 local labour systems (LLSs) and functional urban areas (FUAs), not officially delimited in the Czech Republic, describing them in terms of mutual interaction and the quality of their transportation systems. More than 8 million inhabitants, of a total population of 10.3, live in the FUAs. Our time-distance model has showed that centres are worst accessible in major FUAs, due to their size and the transportation problems of urbanized areas. Better roads should prospectively lead to the twinning and networking of smaller FUA centres into local polycentric systems, especially so in the development axes outside urban development areas (functional urban regions) of regional centres.
The centres of the current networks at the regional level can be reached within 60 minute drive. The projects of new speed roads will hardly improve the accessibility from remote peripheries, or that to major national centres like Prague and Brno, but they will do so for the less heavily attended regional centres. They will probably contribute to the functional integration of regional systems too, particularly in Moravia, a territory of no dominant supra-regional centre.
The research has confirmed the newly emerging phenomenon of long-distance commuting between regional centres and indicated the potential for integrated settlement systems at the regional level.
PROJEKTY S DOPRAVNÍ TEMATIKOU V RÁMCI INICIATIVY ES INTERREG IIIB CADSES A PROGRAMŮ ESPON A INTERACTTransportation Projects within the Interreg IIIB Initiative and the ESPON & INTERACT Programmes, by Veronika Supová
Within the Interreg IIIB CADSES initiative and the ESPON and INTERACT programmes, numerous transportation projects were carried out during the 2000–2006 programming period of the EU. The article presents a list of these projects, describing some of their basic characteristics.
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