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Modern safe and efficient transport infrastructure represents one of the key pillars of the prosperity of the Czech Republic in the coming decades. This is accounted for in the new economic strategy of the Czech Republic Czechia: A Country for the Future 2.0. In implementing this the Ministry of Transport will focus primarily on completing the backbone highway network strengthening the capacity of railways and modern management of freight transport.
Transport is the bloodstream of the economy. If we want the Czech Republic to truly be a country for the future we must necessarily complete the backbone highway network modernize and increase the capacity of the railway and ensure good transport services for all domestic regions. Equally important is to build faster more efficiently and with maximum respect for taxpayers money. We want to build quickly efficiently and smartly says Minister of Transport Ivan Bednarik.
We do not want to be a cheap subcontractor economy. We want to support investments in innovation and create a stable and predictable environment for business. The Czech economy must grow faster again and businesses and research must become the engine of growth says Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlicek regarding the new economic strategy adding: The government must create predictable investment conditions and a labor market for them. Simply put we need to have reasonable energy prices smart tax and depreciation policies and enough workers in demanded professions.
The economic strategy sets the task of completing the basic highway network by 2035 at the latest. In the coming years the completion of key routes is planned such as D3 towards Austria the connection of D1 and D11 within the Prague Ring Road D35 between Hradec Kralove and Svitavy D11 to the border with Poland and the expansion of D1 in the Brno area. The strategy also includes the gradual construction of the basic network of the rapid railway connection system along the axis of Dresden-Prague-Brno-Ostrava increasing speeds on selected sections of railway corridors increasing the capacity of overloaded sections continuing electrification and installing the most modern European train protection system ETCS.
The document also responds to the need to increase the efficiency of funds spent on transport construction. Therefore the Ministry of Transport will prepare a detailed comparison of transport construction prices and adopt measures to reduce investment costs including standardizing technical solutions wider use of BIM methods and FIDIC contractual standards as well as stricter budget control of investment organizations. PPP projects will also play an increasingly important role.
The strategy also addresses digitalization and traffic management. For example it includes the introduction of a central register of traffic restrictions streamlining toll collection and strengthening controls on overloaded vehicles.
Investments in transport are not just an expense of the state budget but a strategic investment in the future of the entire country. Every completed kilometer of highway or modernized railway line means more economic opportunities for citizens and companies. Our goal is for transport not to be an obstacle to development but its main impulse concludes Minister Bednarik.
The complete text of the economic strategy can be found on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
