A globally accessible city is well connected with the surrounding world via high-quality, high-capacity and reliable transport and communication infrastructure. The term "global" refers to the need to connect Brno with the metropolises located in (Central) European and global space (such as Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Munich, Berlin, etc.) and also includes a reference to hierarchically superior transport and communication routes (such as air routes, motorways, high-speed lines, global data networks, etc.).
Good accessibility of the city and its metropolitan region is important for an efficient and reliable functioning of all components of its life, especially for the metropolitan economy, scientific structures, and for all other socio-economic activities, as it allows maintaining and developing the necessary contacts. Its expression is the easy reach of the city and its surroundings for all people arriving here or departing from here (residents, commuters, investors, entrepreneurs, tourists, scientists and others).
Lecturer at the Geographical Institute of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. In his pedagogical and research activities, he deals mainly with the themes of geography of transport, focusing on the topic of daily mobility and its importance in the time-space routines of inhabitants, as well as on railway, road and air transport issues.
GOAL | INDICATOR | UNIT | ACTUAL VALUE | FUTURE VALUE | TERRITORIAL PROJECTION | |
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primary | Ensure high-quality, high-capacity and reliable transport and communication links between Brno and (Central) European and world metropolises, both in passenger and freight transport, as well as in the field of information flows. | Road transport - time accessibility to neighbouring Central European centres (Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Warsaw, Berlin) by car on newly opened motorways and other hierarchically superior roads |
minutes |
Prague (120), Vienna (100), Bratislava (80), Budapest (190), Warsaw (400), Berlin (360), Munich (360) |
Prague (120), Vienna (80), Bratislava (80), Budapest (180), Warsaw (330), Berlin(330), Munich (330) |
Road transport on hierarchically superior roads increases the accessibility of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
Air transport - number of destinations accessible from Brno by scheduled direct flights in a normal week, of which hub airports of network carriers |
number, destinations in total (of which hub airports) |
3(1) |
20(6) |
air transport increases the accessibility of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
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Railway transport - time accessibility to neighbouring Central European centres (Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Warsaw, Berlina Munich) by train on newly opened corridor or high-speed lines |
minutes |
Prague (150), Vienna (90), Bratislava (90), Budapest (250), Warsaw (420), Berlin(440), Munich (400) |
Prague (60), Vienna (45), Bratislava (45), Budapest (120), Warsaw (150), Berlin(180), Munich (150) |
Railway transport on high-speed lines increases the accessibility of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
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Openness of the city to new, gradually emerging innovations in transport and communication technologies |
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as needed, discussions with investors, negotiations with responsible national and European stakeholders, preliminary agreements |
as needed, discussions with investors, negotiations with responsible national and European stakeholders, preliminary agreements |
possible new transport and communication technologies creases the accessibility of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
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Communication and data infrastructures - data capacity of networks connecting Brno to international and global networks |
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Communication and data infrastructure increases the accessibility of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
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other | Ensure high-quality, high-capacity and reliable operation of transport terminals that allow the entry of global passenger and freight traffic and information flows into the area of the city and the metropolitan region of Brno. | Functioning modern railway junction well connected to the internal structure of the city and related urban and suburban passenger and freight transport systems |
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not yet |
yes |
surroundings of the main railway station and also other rail terminals, city of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
System of P&R catchment parking lots allowing for a smooth transition from long-distance passenger car traffic to the city transport system (parking capacity); interconnection of terminals for road freight transport with terminals of other modes of transport (intermodality) |
text, number |
not yet functioning as a system (only one P&R parking lot is in operation, with a capacity of 177 places) |
yes, 20 000 parking places |
surroundings of the P&R catchment parking lots and also freight terminals, city of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |
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An airport well connected to related systems of urban and suburban passenger and freight transport |
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not yet |
yes |
surroundings of the airport Brno-Tuřany, city of Brno and its whole metropolitan area |