Relationship of transport and environment in the Czech Republic and possibilities of its economic evaluation

Abstract

The paper deals with the problems of transport impacts on environment, namely with a view to the Czech Republic. At first, it evaluates state and development of transport capacity in the Czech Republic and characterizes impacts of particular kinds of transport on environment, as well. Furthermore the paper attends to possibilities of economic evaluation of transport impact on environment and definition of environmental effectiveness. The article is published within the research proposal „Transport systems theory“, which is being solved at Jan Perner Transport Faculty of the University of Pardubice.