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Folia Geographica 2021, 63/2, pp. 135–154

TERRITORIAL ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PLANNED CZECH HIGH-SPEED RAIL CONSTRUCTION

Milan VITURKA A, Vilém PAŘIL B*, Jiří LÖW C

Received: September 5, 2021 | Revised: November 13, 2021 | Accepted: November 22, 2021

Paper No. 21-63/2-617

A Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-9823
viturka@econ.muni.cz

B* Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9623-1935
vilem@mail.muni.cz (corresponding author)

C LӦW & spol., s.r.o., Vranovská 102, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2023-2269
lowaspol@lowaspol.cz


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Abstract
The aim of this article is to present the results of the evaluation of selected aspects of the construction of high-speed railway routes (HSR) in the Czech Republic through stimulation and sustainability criteria. The first criterion is focused on assessing potential conflicts of the proposed routes with protected areas of European importance and territorial systems of ecological stability of the landscape of supraregional importance, and the second criterion on assessing the degree of their connection to the territorial systems of centres and axes of development affecting the regional quality of the business environment. The explanatory power of these criteria is guaranteed by their theoretical framing of the original integration theory of sustainable regional development, connecting territorial systems of socio-economic development with territorial systems of ecological stability of the landscape. The acquired knowledge can be used practically for evidence-based identification of the importance of individual HSR routes and optimization of their localization.

Key words
High-speed rail, assessment, regional development, stimulation, sustainability.

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