Overview
Diversion of road traffic from toll charged class I roads to lower class roads leads to the degradation of quality of such roads and to the loss of competitiveness of regions. The focus of the project on the research of economic impacts on the introduction of road toll on class I roads on regional budgets in relation to increased costs for the maintenance of lower class roads with higher traffic volume and the creation of software for the calculation of these costs.
The objectives of the projects are:
- to use qualitative research to identify unfavourable factors contributing to the damage of lower class roads which affect the budgets of regional administrators and which particularly concern these viewpoints:
- road construction viewpoint– expected development of road surface damage (its life span),
- user’s viewpoint– operational function (safety, traffic flow, economical and comfortable traffic),
- environmental viewpoint– noise and emissions caused by motor vehicle fumes.
Implementation: January to June 2014,
- to use quantitative research to define the level of significance of individual criteria causing damage of lower class roads in individual regions, while the level of significance was assigned on the basis of the average sample of events in given regions, Implementation: July to December 2014,
- a partial objective was to create software to calculate costs on the additional maintenance of lower class roads, Implementation: January to November 2015,
- to disseminate project results through conferences and seminars and thus promote awareness of the possibility to quantify excessive wear out of lower class roads in individual regions. The results are used as a tool for strategic development of a given region in relation to its budget, Implementation: December 2015 as well as after project termination.
Funding
Results
- identification of unfavourable factors contributing to the damage of lower class roads which affect the budgets of regional administrators and which particularly concern these viewpoints:
- road construction viewpoint– expected development of road surface damage (its life span),
- user’s viewpoint– operational function (safety, traffic flow, economical and comfortable traffic),
- environmental viewpoint– noise and emissions caused by motor vehicle fumes.
Implementation: January to June 2014,
- to use quantitative research to define the level of significance of individual criteria causing damage of lower class roads in individual regions, while the level of significance was assigned on the basis of the average sample of events in given regions, Implementation: July to December 2014,
- a software to calculate costs on the additional maintenance of lower class roads, Implementation: January to November 2015,
- project results disseminated through conferences and seminars and thus promote awareness of the possibility to quantify excessive wear out of lower class roads in individual regions.
The results are used as a tool for strategic development of a given region in relation to its budget, Implementation: December 2015 as well as after project termination.