Geografie 1964, 69, 200-212
Communications Between Rural Settlements and Centres
In order to find out the recent quality of communication by collective means of transport between rural settlements and respective settlement centres, communication analyses are being done by the Research Institute of Building and Architecture in relation to the research of perspective tendencies of rebuiding the settlement system in Czechoslovakia. For the principle features of the communication quality we can take the capacity of using collective transport for different kinds of voyages which would correspond to the fulfilling of various functions of the centre, and the time necessary for the transport. If the results of the analyses of communication between different settlements and the centre are related to the respective centre, the analyses show the possible acting effect of the centre, the extent of its region of attraction, and regional zones with equal qualities of communications. If the results are related to certain territory and its population, the analyses show one important feature of settlement and living standard of rural population, i. e. the level of collective transport service which among others makes possible the use of town (centre) services by rural population which depend upon collective means of transport. In the cartograms, where densier striping and black settlement symbols represent better quality of communication service, a striking difference can be clearly observed between the two researched districts, the difference both in settlement structure and in the quality of communications. The reason of this is the different degree of economic development. While in the districts of Beroun and Třebíč collective means of communication cover mostly all transport demands on working days, in the Tachov District, where the bus transport is of little intensity, only the transport to the workplace and to town services provided in the daytime is arranged for the greater part of the population.
