Geografie 2025, 130, 115-141
Spatial patterns of travel behaviour in Czechia: Continuity or change?
, Petr Tonev2
1University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Education, Department of Geography, České Budějovice, Czechia
2Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Department of Regional Economics, Brno, Czechia
Received February 2025
Accepted May 2025
Travel behaviour research is an extremely complex study area focused on people’s movements in space. It studies transport mode choices and other individual mobility characteristics. In Czechia, there has been a significant change in the population’s spatial mobility patterns and travel behaviour since the 1990s. This paper focuses on studying the spatial patterns of the Czech population’s travel behaviour between 2011 and 2021. The analysis is based on changes in the use of transport for commuting based on the last two population censuses. It reveals the spatial patterns and specifics of using different transport modes and synthetically assesses the main changes in the use of car and public transport. A municipality typology according to travel behaviour indicates a continuation of trends from previous periods (the growing importance of cars), but also significant changes in the development of travel behaviour in typologically different areas of Czechia.
Keywords
travel behaviour, spatial mobility, commuting, spatial patterns, Czechia.
Funding
This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation project No. GA24−12009S “Structures of spatial interactions: role of distance and spatial patterns”. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers, whose comments have been extremely useful and helpful.
