Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic

       The industry of transport comprises businesses active in the movement of freight and passengers in the following types of transport:

• rail transport (excepting siding transport and transport by service and business trains of railway organizations),
• road transport,
• transport via pipeline,
• public transit in cities/towns,
• inland waterway transport,
• air transport.

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

       The CZSO was permitted to release individual data.

Notes on tables

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

Employment indicators, financial indicators and sales indicators are defined in Chapters10. Labour, 16A. Industry, and 18. Trade, Hotels and Restaurants, Tourism, respectively.

Table 19-3. Public rail transport of goods: outputs

      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 the calculation of carriage charges. One (1) tariff tonne-kilometre refers to the transport of one (1) tonne of goods over a tariff distance of one (1) kilometre.

Table 19-4. Passenger transport by rail: outputs

      Figures on the passengers transported and the other indicators include all categories of paying passengers transported.

       One (1) passenger-kilometre in passenger transport refers to the move of one (1) person over a distance of one (1) kilometre.

       One (1) train-kilometre in passenger transport relates to the move of one (1) passenger train, or a single diesel railcar, over a distance of one (1) kilometre.

Table 19-6. Public rail transport of goods: selected indicators
      Gross tonne-kilometre is the indicator of gross output of driving vehicles and characterizes the overall volume of transport activities in general. 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 (1) train-kilometre in the transport of goods indicates the move of one (1) train carrying goods over a distance of one (1) kilometre.

Table 19-7. Road transport: outputs

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

      The volume of 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.

      The number of the passengers transported by road shows 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.

Table 19-10. Motor vehicles

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

Table 19-13. Air transport: outputs

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

      The tonne-kilometres and passenger-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

      The industry of communications comprises organisations and their executive units operating in the area of postal and telecommunication services. Česká pošta, s. p. (Czech Post, state-owned enterprise) 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 - i.e. 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 retrieved from the departmental reporting system of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the CR.

      The CZSO was permitted to release individual data.

Notes on tables

Table 19-15. Basic indicators of communications

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

Table 19-16. Telecommunications: basic information

      The number of TV broadcasting stations includes satellite and supplementary stations, too.

      Telephones in public network in total include main telephone lines (residential, business), total mobile subscriptions and telephone lines for public use.

      Main telephone lines connected to digital exchanges are lines with access to public network through digital telephone exchange, including Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines.

      Main telephone lines connected to analogue exchanges are lines with access to public network through analogue telephone exchanges.

      The long-distance transmission network is composed of long-distance metallic cables (both low-frequency and high-frequency), optical fibres, and aerial cables. The length of the cables in pair-kilometres is the cable length multiplied by the number of pairs of conductors (fibres) the cable is made of.

      The number of Internet users is the number of legal and natural persons connected to the global computer network and using services of approach to the Internet on the basis of a contract concluded with a provider of such services.

      The number of computers permanently connected to Internet is the number of computers by which the provider is connected to the Internet world network.

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

      The 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.

      The 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, incl. comprehensive ones, especially includes 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.

      The time series of the basic indicators is not fully comparable. Since the year 2000, available administrative sources have been used to identify activities of enterprises. This resulted in changes in the indicator values published before.

      The other data are comparable with the data listed in the Statistical Yearbook 2002.

       Other data on transport and communications are available in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the Catalogue of Publications 2003:

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

• "Transport and Communications" (Czech-English version), quarterly in June, September, December 2003, March 2004

• "CZSO Current News" (Czech-English version), monthly
• "Indicators of Economic and Social Development of the Czech Republic" (Czech and English versions), quarterly
• "Bulletin ČSÚ", quarterly.