Geografie 2022, 127, 299-317

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2022.012

Evaluation of the usefulness and relevance criteria for high-speed railway route construction projects: case study of Czechia

Milan Viturka1ID, Vilém Pařil2ID, Martin Farbiak3ID

1Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Department of Regional Economics, Brno, Czechia
2Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Institute for Transport Economics, Geography and Policy, Department of Economics, Brno, Czechia
3Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a. s., Zvolen, Slovakia

Received February 2022
Accepted July 2022

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