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The total number of motor vehicles registered in the territory of Prague keeps increasing. Between 1990 and 1997, the average year-on-year increase was 38,000 cars, although the growth rate slowed down to just 13,000 in 1997. By 1997, there was one passenger car per two inhabitants in Prague. The total number of registered motor vehicles rose from 702,966 in 1996 to 721,962 in 1997. The increase represents 18,996 motor vehicles, i.e. 2.7 %. Similarly, the number of passenger cars rose from 588,968 to 602,246, i.e. by 13,278 units (2.3 %). Changes of the number of vehicles in
Prague between 1961 and
1997 Development trend of motorization in Prague between 1961 and 1997
Source: ÚDI Compared to the 1980s, the traffic intensity increase rate since 1990 is almost six times higher. Over the last seven years (1990 - 1997), the daily traffic intensity has increased by 7.6 million vehicular kilometers per day. In relative terms, the traffic intensity increase rate in Prague since 1990 is almost three times higher than in other parts of the country. Between 1991 and 1997, the traffic intensity has increased by 104 %, especially in the central zone of the City (occasionally by as much as over 100 %). The relatively lower peak-time traffic intensity increase in the centre of Prague is attributable to increasingly frequent and extensive traffic jams (bumper-to-bumper queues of waiting vehicles) as crucial crossroads have reached their permeability limit. Traffic flow composition in the central
and outer ring roads in 1997 Source: ÚDI The high increase of passenger car traffic in Prague over the last few years has been caused by a number of factors the most important of which are: a switch of some commuters from the public transport system to using their own cars; increased mobility of population; and an increased number of motorized visitors of Prague. Between 1990 and 1997, the number of people using the public transport system in Prague has dropped by almost 793,000 per day, i.e. by 19 %. The public transport system of Prague transported a total of 1,078,054 thousand passengers in 1997, i.e. 2,064 thousand (0.2 %) little than in 1996. Only the number of passengers transported by the metro showed an increase (883 thousand passengers, i.e. +0.2 %). On the other hand, trams and buses showed decreases of 1,872 thousand (+0.5 %) and 1,075 thousand (0.3 %), respectively. The shares of the different means of public transport in the above total figure were as follows: metro - 407,010 thousand (37.8 %); trams - 339,460 thousand (31.6 %); buses - 239,584 thousand (30.6 %). On the other hand, the increasing trend in individual transport continued throughout 1997 reflected in a high number (39,479) of accidents in the territory of Prague, i.e. 1,388 (3.6 %) more than in 1996 in which 90 people lost their lives (i.e. 5 people/5.9 % more than in 1996), and 539 (115 less than in 1996) were seriously injured which translates into a decrease of 17.6 %. Traffic in Prague - selected characteristics in 1997
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