TY - JOUR
TI - Spatial differences in public transport accessibility of district centres in the Prešov region, Slovakia
AU - Székely, Vladimír
AU - Novotný, Ján
TI - Spatial differences in public transport accessibility of district centres in the Prešov region, Slovakia
AB - 
	The issue of public transport accessibility of localities and regions is one of the key research themes of transport geography. The EU defines public transport as one of the services of “general economic interest”, which means that its organization should be based on the principles of solidarity and equal access for all citizens of the state and its regions. The study of transport accessibility of 13 district centres in the peripheral and economically underdeveloped Prešov administrative region (Slovakia) from the municipalities of their immediate hinterlands expressed by the number of direct bus and train connections is aimed at identifying the spatial differentiation of individual intraregional accessibilities. The realization of the research pursues the objective,to point out by the comparison of the theoretical and real values of direct transport connections, to the possible existence of discrepancies in the public transport services of individual municipalities in relation to their higher hierarchical district’s centre.

	Received: 04.02.2019

	Received in revised form: 04.03.2019

	Accepted: 04.03.2019

	Published: 29.03.2019
VL - 2019
IS - 22 (1)
PY - 2019
SN - 1426-5915
C1 - 2543-859X
SP - 31
EP - 43
DO - 10.4467/2543859XPKG.19.003.10923
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/pkgkptg/artykul/spatial-differences-in-public-transport-accessibility-of-district-centres-in-the-presov-region-slovakia
KW - public transport
KW - transport accessibility
KW - Prešov administrative region
KW - Slovakia