Zagadnienia komunikacji autobusowej w niektórych europejskich krajach socjalistycznych

Abstract

The article is concerned with public motor—coach transport in some selected socialist countries (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Roumania). Two years, 1955 and 1965, hawe been chosen as starting-points for analysing the situation in this field in the respective countries. By means of comparative methods and Special indices the author has tried to determine, what are the general development trends in motor-coach transport as compared to the other types of public passenger transport. In all the countries comprised by our analysis there has been noted a very rapid growth in passenger coach transport, particularly dynamic in Roumanie, Bulgaria and Hungary, which reflects the transformations taking place in the general structure of transport. Thus, in three countries (Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, GDR) coach road transport has more passengers than the railway transport, while in all the examined countries together, the share of this sort of transport within the over-all transport by public means has grown from 23,3 % in 1955 to 53,3 % in 1965.