Optimalizace státní správy a územněsprávního členění

Abstract

A government and local authorities should serve citizens and provide acceptable services for them. Planning and organisation of such public services must respect a limited budget and must ensure an appropriate quality of offered services. The quality of the services depends also on their accessibility, which means that the citizen must travel to a centre where the service is available. The optimal location of centres should thus respect the accessibility, as one of the criterion and the solution should offer the services equally accessible to all citizens at possibly low costs. The optimisation of regional centre allocation in Slovakia was tried using an optimisation model of centres location.