Chapter 5
Influence of Political Regime Change to Land
Use Development in Urban Areas
in the Czech Republic
Lena Halounova ´ and Vladimı ´r Holubec
Abstract This chapter focuses on the development of some selected cities in the
Czech Republic during the last 40 years. This time period has two halves. The first
one is before 1990 when the country was part of Czechoslovakia, one of the
communist countries; the second period covers a democratic regime after 1990.
Land use development of dozens of cities was analyzed on the base of basic land
use classes. These classes allow in an objective way to compare all the cities. The
development is shown through values of 14 attributes for cities grouped into
3 categories – big, medium and small cities. Spatial values show land use development as total areas of land use classes and as ratios of the number of inhabitants
and land use areas. All the values are also related to road traffic intensity, as one of
the most important indicators of the development of society in the last 40 years.
Time development of the values of the indicators, multiple linear regression and
correlation for both periods were used to show their dependency on road traffic
intensity. The main conclusion from this analysis is that the political change
followed by economical change had a strong impact on some of the land use
class changes and road traffic intensity.
Keywords Land use • GIS • Multiple linear regression • Road traffic intensity •
Correlation coefficient
5.1 Introduction
Stimulating the development of human society is based on production, the
exchange and consumption of goods and other products of human activity. Transport routes substantially influence the dynamics in an increase of production and
exchange. The main carrier of these economic relations is road transport; which has
L. Halounova ´ (*) • V. Holubec
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Tha ´kurova 7,
166 29 Prague 6, Czech Republic
e-mail: halounov@gmail.com; vladimir.holubec@fsv.cvut.cz
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
J. Li, X. Yang (eds.), Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes:
A Geomatics Perspective, Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9813-6_5
87
Influence of Political Regime Change to Land
Use Development in Urban Areas
in the Czech Republic
Lena Halounova ´ and Vladimı ´r Holubec
Abstract This chapter focuses on the development of some selected cities in the
Czech Republic during the last 40 years. This time period has two halves. The first
one is before 1990 when the country was part of Czechoslovakia, one of the
communist countries; the second period covers a democratic regime after 1990.
Land use development of dozens of cities was analyzed on the base of basic land
use classes. These classes allow in an objective way to compare all the cities. The
development is shown through values of 14 attributes for cities grouped into
3 categories – big, medium and small cities. Spatial values show land use development as total areas of land use classes and as ratios of the number of inhabitants
and land use areas. All the values are also related to road traffic intensity, as one of
the most important indicators of the development of society in the last 40 years.
Time development of the values of the indicators, multiple linear regression and
correlation for both periods were used to show their dependency on road traffic
intensity. The main conclusion from this analysis is that the political change
followed by economical change had a strong impact on some of the land use
class changes and road traffic intensity.
Keywords Land use • GIS • Multiple linear regression • Road traffic intensity •
Correlation coefficient
5.1 Introduction
Stimulating the development of human society is based on production, the
exchange and consumption of goods and other products of human activity. Transport routes substantially influence the dynamics in an increase of production and
exchange. The main carrier of these economic relations is road transport; which has
L. Halounova ´ (*) • V. Holubec
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Tha ´kurova 7,
166 29 Prague 6, Czech Republic
e-mail: halounov@gmail.com; vladimir.holubec@fsv.cvut.cz
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
J. Li, X. Yang (eds.), Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes:
A Geomatics Perspective, Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9813-6_5
87