In: Geografický časopis, vol. 55, no. 3
Tibor Tiner
Details:
Year, pages: 2003, 223 - 233
Keywords:
transport development projects, regional disparities, less favoured
regions, Hungary
About article:
In the late 1990s Hungary as a candidate country for EU membership, worked out
several transport development projects in the field of rail, road, inland water and
air transport, which are fit the long term strategic goals of transport development
policy of the European Union. Therefore, these projects must be supported financially
by the instruments of the ISPA. The main goals of these projects instruments
are very useful for the renewal of certain parts of the underdeveloped Hungarian
transport infrastructure on one hand, but they concentrate only on the main
radial arteries of the rail and road network and mainly on the Danube ports on the
other. For this reason, these projects strengthen the existing radial structure of the
Hungarian transport network and contribute to the long term economic prosperity
of Budapest. Other problems with these projects are that they do not help construction
or technical renewal of existing or new transverse axes with international
functions in the rail and road transport and also do not give financial support to
the construction of new bridges over the Danube. But these new roads would offer
alternative transit routes through Hungary and would enable much closer connections
between the eastern and western parts of Hungary. These development projects
must be worked out with a modified structure and must be harmonized with
the long-term national objectives of regional development in the future.
How to cite:
ISO 690:
Tiner, T. 2003. The Hungarian ISPA strategy for the transport infrastructure and its effects on regional development. In Geografický časopis, vol. 55, no.3, pp. 223-233. 0016-7193.
APA:
Tiner, T. (2003). The Hungarian ISPA strategy for the transport infrastructure and its effects on regional development. Geografický časopis, 55(3), 223-233. 0016-7193.