Centrum pro Efektivní Dopravu
| Abbreviation | CEDOP |
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| Formation | 2009 |
| Type | non-profit |
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Director
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Tomáš Záruba |
| Website | Official website |
The Centre for Efficient Transport (Centrum pro efektivní dopravu, abbreviated CEDOP) is a Czech-based think tank that advocates the development of public and rail transport. Its seat is in Prague. The mission of the Centre is to promote public transport concepts for 21st century in the Czech Republic, based on best practice from European countries, especially Switzerland.
The Centre was established in 2009 by , the former Deputy of Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic, along with Pavel Adámek and Marek Binko.
The Centre has issued a book named "Suburban Transport - The Backbone of Public Transport in Agglomerations" (ISBN ), which deals with the concept of city rail tunnels construction in order to be able to increase and better exploit the suburban rail in vicinity of large metropolises and enable direct connection from suburbs and satellite towns to city centres, and the possible implementation of such a concept in Prague.
In 2011 the Centre has issued a second book named "High Speed Railway even in the Czech Republic" (ISBN ). The book informs about high-speed rail systems in few selected countries (Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland) and describes a possible future network of the high-speed rail in the Czech republic. Focus is on benefits for the regions of the Czech republic
The Centre has organized a conference about the high-speed rail in cooperation with the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech republic in May 2011. At this conference, the Director General of the Czech Railways Mr. Petr Žaluda acknowledged that Czech Republic may become a European outsider if it does not start constructing the high-speed rail lines in the near future. He also stated that it is vital for Czech republic to build a connection to German high-speed network as soon as possible, as without it there is no reason in talking about the development of rail transport. He also stressed that without high-speed rail lines, even the Berlin-Vienna service will pass around the Czech territory, because it will be quicker that taking the shortest but neglected route via the Czech republic.
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