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

In people transfer, transport makes possible dislocation of source and destination of
working force, as well people mobility that leads to everyday activities organization for which
change of place is necessary.

On one side the irreplaceable role of transport in goods and passengers flows present
in all economic and social activities; on the other side extremely inconvenient influence on
life quality and nature, determine a need to analyse and manage transport activity towards
defined aims.

That is why a system approach is more and more applied in transport research.
Optimisation of a transport system, taking into consideration the impact of surrounding,
makes possible higher profitability of transport enterprises and maximum effects of economy
and social activities.

Transport engages more than 29,8 per cent of total year energy consumption, which is
proportional to nature pollution.¹ Forests, meadows, lakes, mountains and seashore where
objects of transport infrastructure are situated have lost their natural beauty, and peace is
replaced by noise.

On transport routes accidents happen everyday, in which people material goods and
nature suffer. In USA (1996) 2 293 000 accidents were evidenced, with 3 511 000 injured and
41 907 killed, while in Japan in 771 084, accidents with 942 203 injured and 9 942 killed
were evidenced!²

As a rule more developed economy goes side by side with more developed transport,
which confirms a thesis of their mutual interdependence. This fact is confirmed by data about
transportation work in some European countries.

Table 1 Volume and Structure of Goods Transport in some European Countries in 1997.
( in mlrd tkm)

Source: Prijevoz, skladistenje i veze u 1998. Drzavni zavod za Statistiku, Zagreb, 1999,p.l07

Economically most developed European countries like Germany, France and Italy
produce the largest volume of transportation work. This is a result of huge amount of
produced goods that have to be transferred to consumers, production sites, or ports in order to
be transported by sea. For their production a transfer of large quantities of raw materials and
semi-products was needed too.

¹ Wagener N., Environmental protection and Safety Standards. Transurb Consult and Elmar Hertzog und Partner
Management Institute Gmbh, Berlin, 1997, p.5a.

² Prijevoz, skladistenje i veze u 1998. Drzavni zavod za Statistiku, Zagreb, 1999.,p.114.

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