Daily Spatial Mobility and Transport Behaviour in the Czech Republic : A Case study of the Blatná region

Growing mobility is a significant feature of modern societies. Phenomena such as the Internet, modern information and communication technologies, smart phones, social networks as well as the development of automobile transport, the expansion of air transport, the development of high-speed railways and many others result in a steep increase of intensity of physical and virtual contacts in space. Czech Republic as a post-socialist country belongs to states, where the research of daily mobility processes and transport behaviour were studied rather rarely. After the fall of the Iron Curtain after 1989, economic, political and social transformation processes started to manifest considerably within this territory, naturally impacting also transport and mobility. These resulted in quite new principles of organization of transport relations in space as well as the origination of new phenomena supporting the growth of mobility. The main purpose of the study is a detailed survey of current daily mobility and transport behaviour in the Czech Republic using the traditional (travel diaries) and modern (GPS devices) research methods.