Transport And Communications 2016, 4(1):10-16 | DOI: 10.26552/tac.C.2016.1.3

The Effectivness of Suporting Public Passenger Transport from Public Funds

Milo¹ Poliak, ©tefánia Semanová, Peter Varjan
Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina in Zilina, Univerzitná 1, Zilina, 010 26, Slovak Republic (University of Zilina in Zilina)

The paper deals with the issue of efficiency of financial support for public passenger transport from public funds from the perspective of improving road safety. The aim is to verify the hypothesis that financing public passenger transport from public funds is a significant tool to influence the number of passengers carried by individual automobile transport, and thus it can be a tool for influencing road safety in a particular territory. The first part of the paper analyses the sources for financial support of public passenger transport. The last part analyses possible impacts of financing public passenger transport on the road safety in relation to the specified hypothesis.

Keywords: transport, financing, safety, factor, region, public
JEL classification: H40, R48

Published: March 30, 2016  Show citation

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