Transport system as an element of sustainable economic growth in the tourist region

the emission market can be noticed - in the past ten years the number of visitors from distant
countries has decreased in favor of visitors from Central Europe, where the structure has also
changed in favor of tourist from transitional countries.

Railway transport participated with a symbolic amount of significantly less than 1 per
cent. The reasons for this extremely unfavorable condition lay in outdated infrastructure and
facilities that can offer only poor-quality and non-competitive transport services.

Maritime transport, despite occasional mild oscillations, does not feature a downward
trend and can be considered to be satisfactory. Nevertheless, the extremely modest share of
merely 1,3 per cent at the end of the observed period was brought about not only because of
changes on the emission market, that is, a multifold drop in the number of Italian tourists,
including boaters, but also because of the technical and technological obsoleteness of
seafaring facilities.

Safety parameters in certain transport modes in Croatia indicate some similarities
compared with ecology parameters. An analysis that has been made during 1999 with the aim
to contribute to the National strategy of safety in traffic included two main Croatian routes of
utmost importance for tourists’ flows. These were: Rijeka-Zagreb (road and railway) and
Rijeka-Dubrovnik (road and ships line).

Table 6 Traffic of Vehicles and Passengers, Traffic Accidents and Their
Consequences on the Route Rijeka-Zagreb

SourceiBozic m et all. Brojenje prometa na cestama RH. Prometis, Zagreb, 1994-1997
Statistics MUP RH, Odjel prometne policije, Zagreb,1998.

Note: Passengers traffic per year has been predicted according to empirical parameters
of average no. of passengers in a road vehicle.

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