Professional paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.38

The challenges of the modern mainland connections with Dubrovnik

Damir Magaš ; University of Zadar, Department of Geography & Centre for Karst and Coastal Research

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Dubrovnik; traffic connecting; Pelješac Bridge; Croatia; mainland traffic

Hrčak ID:

129124

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129124

Publication date:

1.7.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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