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Croatian Transport Strategy Draft

The transport policy in Croatia has the characteristics of inconsistency and fragmentation per transport branches, lacking clear development concept at the level of a system, lacking comprehensive objectives and consideration of the real conditions, exclusively founded on financial sources of the public sector (budget). There is no inter-department co-ordination and no harmonisation of regulation measures in key issues, mainly of the legal, tax and social policy, as well as in solving critical problems – restructuring of unprofitable state-owned companies in the transport sector, irrational management of transport infrastructure, absence of equal conditions of market economy for all the transport branches, lack of implementation of traffic management principles (mainly urban traffic) by inducing demand for non-road transport modes and public transport, non-defining of external traffic costs(and also no implementation of reduction measures), and finally, of special significance – taking no advantage of the scientific potential. In the attempt of separating the regulative and the operational functions, the newly founded public companies i.e. limited liability companies mainly owned by the state (Croatian Airlines, Croatia Control, airports) have been left without commercial management (management functions are filled according to the political key, rather than the professional one), and diminishing at the same time the regulatory domain of authority (CAA) within respective Ministry. Ten international airports allow for almost 1% of the world infrastructure, and according to the realised passenger traffic, the Croatian airports participate with only 0.5‰ . The efficiency of the Croatia Airlines fleet measured by load factor was 51.2%. The implementation of strategic guidelines of transport development through legal instruments should solve in the first place: fair charging for the infrastructure usage (internalisation of external costs), corporatisation/privatisation of service providers, provision of operator competitiveness, preventing monopolies, tax and price policy in accordance with the strategic objectives of sustainable development of the transport system on the principle of integration and intermodality, inclusion of private sector into the transport infrastructure investment programs. Those assumes primarily qualified administration staffing of transport department and consistent co-operation with other government departments, in order to provide the efficiency of transport policy instruments in key aspects: regulative policy, traffic management, investment policy, tax and price policy, physical planning and social policy.

Transport Strategy; Transport Policy; Air Traffic; Infrastructure; Management; Legal Framework

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