Transport road is an initiator of further economic, scientific and cultural development. This approach is quite common in the whole evolution of civilization. Transport belongs to the key sectors of national economy for two reasons. The classic one is the dependence of regional economic development on the quality of transport services. There is another reason today. Transport is the sector, where eventual foreign investments have so large extent that they basically influence the economic stability of the country. That is why it is necessary to prepare and promote with a maximum effort the transport projects going towards European interests, valorising the strategic location in the centre of the continent and being thus also in the interest of the Czech Republic. Area planning is an instrument of complex assessment and qualified decision in the area on the basis of achieved agreement (compromise). Area planning brings the stability of conditions for the use of the area, stability being an advantage for the localisation of investments (the rules and limitations are given, the potential of the area is obvious, the kind of connection to the technical and transport infrastructure is distinct). It follows from gained experience that the existing procedure of decisions on the corridor of the transport route produces non-lucid process. A set of required individual assessments and expertises considers the problem in an isolate manner viewed by individual disciplines. Thus one view is promoted on the detriment of others. In the interest of objectivity of the whole process it is necessary to find such a procedure that enables to define, in the framework of the preparation of relevant area planning and its negotiations as precisely as possible, the real public interest and includes it into the area planning documentation. Provided that the process of assessment of all impacts and parameters in their mutual relations has been made more lucid during the preparation of the new law on area planning and building construction, it would be easier to define the measure of public utility and more difficult to present some particular interests as the public ones. A special committee called "Transport Forum" has been established by the parliament of the CR in 1999 to assess in an objective manner the program of transport infrastructure construction. The independent studies carried out by Universities have been prepared for the discussions of the committee that proceeded with the participation of interested institutions and public initiatives. The arguments for the support of the construction of the transport infrastructure were presented, for example positive influence of the communications of high capacity on the development of the area, the increase of security and decrease of negative influences on the population (noise, emissions). For the covering abstract see ITRD E135448.
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