Abstract
Strengthening public transport can significantly contribute to transport sustainability, in particular to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This article primarily aims to analyse the long-term trend in the production of carbon dioxide by individual types of transport throughout the Czech Republic and to compare the performance of public passenger transport and passenger car transport. The analysis concludes that the performance of public passenger transport by land in the Czech Republic has not been increasing over a long period; on the contrary, individual transport has been strengthening. There has been an increasing trend in CO2 emissions from transport for a long period. Thus, the development of subsidies in the public transport clearly shows that to fund public passenger transport is in the public interest.
Highlights
Environmental issues, growing urban population and dwindling crude oil reserves are the main reasons why there is more and more talk about transport sustainability
The growing trend is confirmed by the fact that between 2000 and 2018 CO2 emissions from transport increased by 66%
With this evaluation method of the transport performance, there was a slight increase in the proportion of the land public transport, when in 2005 it accounted for 31% which increased to 33% within a year
Summary
Environmental issues, growing urban population and dwindling crude oil reserves are the main reasons why there is more and more talk about transport sustainability. The problem of CO2 emissions is compounded by the decline in organic productive areas, especially in cities and on outskirts This decline is exacerbated by the lack of capacity to sequester CO2 on both the microscale and mesoscale, which results in rising temperatures and reduced air quality within urban boundaries [3]. Ji, Kirikkaleli et al [6] demonstrate that there is an important cointegration equation between CO2 emissions, innovations, financial development, transport infrastructure and real GDP, on which individual political decisions should be based - for example, to strengthen the performance of public passenger transport and to encourage restrictions on individual transport or to support pooling of drives - more people travel in fewer vehicles [7].
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