The Public Transport in the Statutory City of Ostrava

Transport is one of the key components of every municipality and has long remained an important player in the process of forming not only the municipalities themselves but also higher territorial units. There is a great effort to reduce the burden on the environment, noise and transport costs by restricting the entry of passenger cars and move towards greater use of urban public transport in metropolises. Expenditures on public transport are among the largest items of city budgets in the Czech Republic and are growing with the number of inhabitants and the total area of the city. The article presents the outputs that arose within the solution of the project TL01000145 "Methodological - application tools for efficiency financial management of territorial structured Statutory City". The outputs of the article are focused on the area of transport, as it is one of the key areas of the budget of the Statutory City of Ostrava. As part of this project, a questionnaire survey was conducted in 2020 aimed at the inhabitants of Ostrava. The aim of the research was to find out what opinions and attitudes the inhabitants of Ostrava have about the functioning of public transport in the city.