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Influence of road infrastructure on functioning of postal traffic in the Republic of Croatia

Croatian road infrastructure development has got crucial importance for regular functioning of postal services in the Republic of Croatia. According to the Law on postal services (Official Gazette No. 88/09) the performance of universal service is of interest for the Republic of Croatia, actually to the users of postal services throughout the country must be provided with a universal postal service under the same conditions and a postal service provider has right to cancel service only in the case of force majeure. In fact there is no motorways, expressways or local road in Croatia that is not used daily for transporting shipments, with some service vehicles of different postal or courier services. Due to the large representation of road vehicles in the transport of shipments, the centre of the sorting shipments are being built near traffic junctions such as motorways or high-speed roads, airports, railway stations etc. Mailing (dispatching) centre, which for various reasons are in the city centres and often do not have disabled access to major road vehicles (trucks) for loading off shipments and therefore arise additional and unnecessary cost for service providers. Also the daily circulation of a large number of vehicles for delivery to the postal centre generates additional traffic jams and significantly pollutes the environment. Very important role in the process of determining the schedule (the organization of transport technology - UTP) has a selection of roads, vehicles and capacities that are owned by a service provider or contract carrier. Especially the UTP is manifested in the extraordinary transport of shipments (e.g., order for courier delivery of shipments) in large urban areas in order to keep the delivery deadlines, to save on transport costs and increase safety and protection of workers and shipments in the traffic process.

shipments; environmental protection; sorting centre; road; safety and protection

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