The industry of transport comprises businesses active in the movement of goods and passengers in the following modes of transport:

• rail transport (excepting siding transport and transport by service and business trains of railway organizations),
• road transport,
• transport via pipeline,
• inland waterway transport,
• air transport.

Besides, the industry of transport embraces supporting and auxiliary transport activities, including those of travel agencies, in compliance with international methodology.

Most of the figures presented on transport have been obtained from regular statistical surveys conducted by the Ministry of Transport of the CR.

The CZSO was permitted to release individual data.


Notes on tables


Tables 19-1 and 19-2. Basic transport indicators

Employment indicators, financial indicators and sales indicators are defined in Chapters 10. Labour Market, 16A. Industry and 18. Trade, Hotels and Restaurants, Tourism, respectively.


Table 19-3. Rail transport: outputs

The number of passengers transported includes all categories of paying persons transported.

A passenger-kilometre in passenger transport refers to the transport of one person over a distance of one kilometre.

A tariff tonne-kilometre is an indicator of operation that characterizes the output concerning goods transport in relation to a distance actually covered. The tariff distance is given by the milestone and used for calculating carriage charges. One tariff tonne-kilometre refers to the transport of one tonne of goods over a tariff distance of one kilometre.


Table 19-4. Passenger transport by rail: selected indicators

One train-kilometre in passenger transport relates to the move of one passenger train, or a single diesel railcar, over a distance of one kilometre.


Table 19-5. Rail transport of goods: selected indicators

A gross tonne-kilometre is the indicator of gross output of driving vehicles and characterizes the overall volume of transport activities. It takes into account not only the weight of the goods carried, but also the weight of the railway wagon itself (excluding driving vehicle).

One train-kilometre in the transport of goods indicates the move of one train carrying goods over a distance of one kilometre.


Table 19-7. Road transport: outputs

The number of the passengers transported by road refers to the volume of transport by bus or coach on both regular and irregular lines. Coefficients are used to convert season tickets into figures on transported passengers.

Coefficients are also used to calculate the output in terms of passenger-kilometres from the volume of sales in CZK, the ratio between actually transported passengers and kilometres covered being maintained.

The volume of goods transport in terms of tonnes shows the actual weight of goods carried by commercial road vehicles, including trailers and semi-trailers, registered in the Czech Republic.

Road transport of goods is measured according to methodology compiled by Eurostat.


Table 19-10. Motor vehicles

The figures on motor vehicles are borrowed from statistics produced by the Ministry of the Transport of the CR and include all road motor vehicles which had valid license plates as at 31 December.


Table 19-12. Transport by pipeline: outputs

The tonnage of crude oil carried, total (tonnes) includes both transport and deliveries of crude oil. The transport refers to the transfer of crude oil from the state border to a central crude oil loading depot, while deliveries refer to the transfer of crude oil to the customer’s storage tanks from both oil pipelines directly and a central crude oil loading depot.


Table 19-13. Air transport: outputs

Given are figures provided by domestic civil air carriers engaged in national and international regular and irregular transport of passengers or cargo (for hire or reward).

The passenger-kilometres and tonne-kilometres in air transport are derived from tariff distances as given in the flight schedule.


Table 19-14. Airports in the CR: outputs

The figures are reported by holders of the licence for the operation of civil airports.

B. COMMUNICATIONS

Communications comprise legal entities and their executive units operating in the area of post and courier activities and in telecommunications. Česká pošta, s. p. (Czech Post, state-owned enterprise) provides basic postal services in the framework of which it ensures services of postal packets and orders. Besides, it carries out a number of activities based on individual contractual relations.

The executive units of telecommunications render public telecommunication services—broadcasting, transmission and reception of information of any kind in the form of characters, speech, sound or image by means of telecommunication equipment.

The figures on communications presented here have been obtained from the departmental reporting system of the Ministry of Informatics of the CR.

The CZSO was permitted to release individual data.


Notes on tables


Table 19-15. Basic communications indicators

Employment indicators, financial indicators and sales indicators are defined in Chapters 10. Labour Market, 16A. Industry and 18. Trade, Hotels and Restaurants, Tourism, respectively.


Table 19-16. Telecommunications: basic data

The number of TV transmitters excludes transposers.

Telephones in public networks, total include main telephone lines, mobile subscriptions and telephone lines for public use.

A main telephone line is a subscriber’s line to a public telecommunication network, terminated with an end point of the network designed for access to telephone service and having a clearly defined connecting point in the equipment of the telephone exchange (including B channels of ISDN connections including service lines).

Since 2002 the main telephone lines have been connected to digital exchanges only.


Table 19-17. Basic information on Česká pošta, s.p.

A letter-box is a means the sender uses to post a letter. It is provided with a label bearing the logo of Česká pošta, s. p. (Czech Post, state-owned enterprise) and information on tariffs in force, times the parcels are collected from the letter-box and the post office commissioned to collect the letters.

A post office box is a lockable box for parcels to be collected by the addressee. It is provided inside the post office and is hired by the addressee.

The indicator Payments received, incl. payments of household bills, includes especially postal order payments, payments of fees, charges and bills (radio, TV, telephone), payments for the Postal Savings Bank, all posted, plus payments for Sazka a.s. lottery betting received by post.

The indicator Payments delivered includes postal orders payments, pensions, lottery winnings delivered, payments to the Postal Savings Bank, cashing international postal cheques, all delivered.




Since 2000, available administrative sources have been used to establish the activity of enterprises. This is why the data for the period before 2000, which were released in previous issues of Statistical Yearbook of the CR, are not fully comparable in terms of methodology.

a) under group 9 - SERVICES, subgroup 93 - Transport and Communications:

• “Transport and Communications” (Czech-English) - quarterly in June, September, December 2005, March 2006
• “Economic Results in Transport and Communications 2001-2003” (Czech-English) - September 2005

• “CZSO Monthly Statistics ” (Czech-English)
• “Indicators of Social and Economic Development of the Czech Republic” (Czech and English) - quarterly
• „Bulletin ČSÚ“ - quarterly.

Data on transport and communications are also available in the “Transport Yearbook” put out every year by the Ministry of Transport of the CR.