IZAZOVI SUVREMENOGA KOPNENOG POVEZIVANJA DUBROVNIKA. (Croatian)

THE CHALLENGES OF THE MODERN MAINLAND CONNECTIONS WITH DUBROVNIK. (English)

As an important geographical and geo-traffic centre of Adriatic Croatia, Dubrovnik is one of the most famous modern tourist, cultural and heritage centres in the Mediterranean and in the World. Dubrovnik-Neretva County attracts around one million relatively high-paying tourists from all over the world a year, who realise about five million overnights (about 7% of the Croatian tourist traffic). The geo-traffic location, the territorial separation by the "Neum corridor" from other parts of Croatia, the suspension of the railway connection in 1976, as much as a relatively large distance from regional centres, resulted in a situation where for the most part the modern transport links with Dubrovnik are carried out by air and by sea (regular lines, cruisers, etc.). Inland roads connect mainly with other parts of Croatia but to a significantly lower degree with the neighbouring countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. The growing needs of a modern road linkage require new and better solutions in relation to the current connections by the old Adriatic tourist road. This refers primarily to an increase in mobility and speed of travel, and to the avoidance of border crossings, but also to solving the transport connections between the Pelješac peninsula and the island of Korčula (indirectly the island of Mljet and Lastovo too). In this regard, the already initiated construction of the bridge Klek-Pelješac has recently appeared to be an appropriate and high quality realisation of a modern road (a highway or a fast road) connecting Dubrovnik with the European space in the West and North, as well as with other parts of Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dubrovnik, kao važno geografsko i geoprometno središte Jadranske Hrvatske, jedno je od najpoznatijih suvremenih turističkih i kulturno-baštinskih čvorišta Sredozemlja i svijeta. Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija godišnje privlači oko milijun, razmjerno visokoplatežnih turista iz cijelog svijeta koji ostvare približno pet milijuna noćenja (oko 7% turističkog prometa Hrvatske). Geoprometni položaj, teritorijalna odvojenost "Neumskim koridorom" od ostalih dijelova Hrvatske, ukidanje željezničke veze 1976., kao i razmjerno velika udaljenost od regionalnih središta, uvjetovali su da se velikim dijelom suvremena prometna povezanost Dubrovnika odvija zračnim i pomorskim putem (redovite pruge, cruiseri i sl.). Kopneno cestovno povezivanje odvija se uglavnom prema ostalim dijelovima Hrvatske, a znatno manje prema susjednim zemljama Bosni i Hercegovini i Crnoj Gori. Sve veće potrebe suvremenoga cestovnog povezivanja traže novo i kvalitetnije rješenje u odnosu na sadašnje povezivanje starom Jadranskom turističkom cestom. Ponajprije se to odnosi na povećanje prohodnosti i brzine putovanja te izbjegavanje graničnih prijelaza, ali i na rješavanje prometne povezanosti poluotoka Pelješca i otoka Korčule (posredno i otoka Mljeta i Lastova). S tim u vezi se već započeta izgradnja mostovnog rješenja Klek -- Pelješac u novije vrijeme pojavljuje kao odgovarajuće i kvalitetno rješenje suvremene cestovne (autocesta ili brza cesta) povezanosti Dubrovnika s europskim prostorom na zapadu i sjeveru, kao i s ostalim dijelovima Hrvatske. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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