About locality

City of Pardubice

Regionally offered incentives and advantages

• providing the area developed for investment for a token price (in the locality of the Industrial Zone)
• grants to reward cases of bringing in new job opportunities
• grants covering the costs of training and re-qualification programmes
• possibility of utilising the service of a custom-free zone
• advantageous location in the Czech Republic and a good transport availability
• currently available infrastructure (international airport of the first category, international railroad corridor, planned connection to D 11 motorway, building a new port to be operated on the Labe [Elbe] River)
• availability of qualified workforce, mainly for the areas of electro-technical and chemical industries supported by the system of higher education (Secondary Technical School of Chemistry, Secondary Electro-technical School, Integrated Secondary School, University of Pardubice, etc.), professional and caring approach of city representatives
• a good quality social, culture and sports background provided by this town of 100,000 inhabitants:

- ready state of local educational and training bodies to provide foreign language training, starting at the level of primary education (Unesco Certificate) up to the level of the University of Pardubice
- presence of foreign bodies: British Council, Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institut
- localities tipped for residential purposes.

Transport facilities and system

Road transport
Pardubice’s transportation connection to a traffic system of a higher level is based on the road lines of the traffic network D 11: Prague – Hradec Králové, (D 11) – Vysoké Mýto – Olomouc and R 35: Hradec Králové. The D–thoroughfares, after being completed, will bypass Pardubice along its northern/north-eastern territory sector. This planning seems apparently to reflect in a partly asymmetric traffic connection of the city.

The southward thoroughfare, I/37 contributes to the completion of the traffic network in the north – south direction. This road line has primarily a regional importance, connecting the agglomerations of Chrudim – Pardubice – Hradec Králové, while its strategic role is to connect the region in the southward direction to the D 1 motorway. Completion of the D 11 motorway building stage will probably induce a re-distribution of the traffic load in the region of East Bohemia.

Regarding the traffic structure, Pardubice has developed a specific pattern. Internal transportation forms approximately 61% of its traffic load, while terminating traffic and transit transportation form 37% and 2%, respectively.

Railway traffic
The Pardubice railroad station represents an important station on a nation-wide level. It is a junction of two railway corridors, both undergoing profound modernisation:

Germany – Děčín – Prague – Pardubice – Brno – Austria, Slovakia
Germany – Cheb – Pilsen – Prague – Pardubice – Ostrava – Poland, Slovakia

1. Passenger railway traffic:

The Pardubice traffic system can capitalise on:
• International direct connection with the following cities: Warsaw, Moscow, Košice, Žilina, Vienna, Hamburg
• International connecting lines with Prague as a changing station (in the distance of 100 km from Pardubice): Vienna, Linz, Venice, Rome, Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt upon Main, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Bern, Budapest, Warsaw.
• Through intrastate connection with the following cities: Prague, Děčín, Cheb, Pilsen, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Brno, Přerov, Olomouc, Ostrava.

2. Freight railway transport:
The Pardubice railway station is also a freight transportation terminal, providing the service of goods haulage and building-to-building distribution of goods. Moreover, Pardubice has also a container terminal, providing the same service as transportation in wagons.

Air traffic
Pardubice can utilise the service of an international airport operating both civil transportation and military operation, for IFR and VFR flights; the Pardubice airport is a part of the backbone national network consisting of 5 airports. The airport is located in a distance of approximately 4 km from the Pardubice centre and 2 km from the railway station of the Prague – Vienna line with a container tranship centre. Moreover, it is situated directly along the Prague – Pardubice thoroughfare, 2 km from the planned river port and 10 km from the planned finishing stretch of the D11 motorway. The Pardubice civil airport is an airport border crossing.
In 2004, the airport recorded 1,288 movements of civil aircrafts and 46,954 passengers were checked out. Several cargo flights by IL – 76 large-capacity aircraft were made as well. Totally, 755 MT of load (305 MT of cargo, 450 MT of luggage) were cleared.

Waterway transport
Making the Labe River navigable up to Pardubice and building a multimode logistic centre, the latter comprising the Pardubice river port, belong among the long-term goals. The plan of building a multifunction logistics centre has a material basis – reservation of the area along the left bank of the Labe, between the Pardubice suburb of Svítkov and the village of Srnojedy. The area, sized approximately 102 hectares is divided in the following manner:
• Communal port
• Multimode logistic centre
• “Winter harbour” zone

Related activities include the Pardubice railway junction, the mixed operation airport and a Free Zone.

City public transport
The entity responsible for Pardubice’s municipal transport is the Pardubice Traffic Company, fully owned by the city of Pardubice. The city’s traffic network consists of 23 lines; eight of them operate trolleybuses, while coaches operate 15 traffic lines. Some of lines service Pardubice’s outskirts, among them Lány na Důlku, Opočínek, Doubravice, Černá za Bory, Mnětice, Dražkovice and Staré Čívice. Several lines provide connection even to some communities outside the Pardubice cadastral territory, e.g. Bohdaneč Spa, Rybitví, Starý Máteřov Němčice, Srch, Spojil, Hostovice, Mikulovice and Ostřešany. The line connecting Pardubice with the communities of Lázně Bohdaneč and Rybitví operate trolleybuses.