The automotive industry has lately been undergoing major changes having a considerable impact on the whole vehicle sector. This does not only refer to what is technologically new on vehicles themselves, but also to the new modern management methods, frequently associated with the Industry 4.0 concept. As well as other companies, car factories are pushing their costs downwards to increase their production efficiency. This paper analyses the economic situation of 5 car manufacturers, two of which having their factories in the Czech Republic and three in Germany. The task was to ascertain efficiency of individual companies in order to propose possible improvements. To do this, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for two models (CCR - model based on Charnes, Cooper & Rhodes and BCC - model based on Banker, Charnes & Cooper) was used. The BCC model was found to be more applicable to the established efficiencies, than the CCR one.

This paper is aimed to compare two regulations concerned with the issue of determining the amount of a provable loss or, newly, a compensation, i.e. Government Decree No. 493/2004 Sb., regulating the provable loss in the public line transport and specifying the method of the exercise of the professional government supervision in the road transport over funding the traffic services, and Regulation No. 296/2010 Sb. on the procedures for establishing the financial model and setting the maximum amount of the compensation. Both regulations suggest the different methodology for determining the amount of compensation in a transport company for the accounting period. The goal is to analyse which methodology encourages the explanatory power of individual items of economically substantiated costs and revenues and whether it has a consistent influence on the final value of compensation. The question is raised of whether we can achieve the same or at least a similar amount of compensation if both methodologies of the provable loss or compensation calculation are applied in the municipal bus transport.

This article is aimed to present the basic characteristics in evaluating the real economic and operational activity which may lead to streamlining of the transport company´s management. The basic materials which can be used for evaluation include the balance sheets and the profit and loss accounts. Last but not least, the author included his own observations and knowledge of the urban public transport and the required information from the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic and some methods of the applied mathematics (operations research).

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The goal of the paper is to assess the territorial development in terms of the public rail transport in conditions of the Czech Republic or, more precisely, in the south of Bohemia. The capacity utilisation of the railway line No. 190 in the direction from Ceske Budejovice to the target station of Strakonice is analysed and the suitable deployment of the set of wagons, intended to be used in providing the basic transport services in the low-populated areas, is evaluated. The paper is concerned with the current situation in utilising the capacities on the railway line No. 190 with respect to the future utilisation of the railway links that will be affected by economic factors in the form of the reduced fare for students and pensioners. To this end, the mathematical and statistical methods, which will pre-define the suitability of the choice of capacities of the set of wagons in providing the basic transport services, will be applied.