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The paper deals with the issue of efficiency of public passenger transport through financial support from public funds from the perspective of improving road safety. The aim is to verify the hypothesis that financing public passenger transport from public funds is a significant tool to influence the number of passengers carried by individual automobile transport, and thus it can be used a tool for influencing road safety in a particular territory. The first part of the paper analyses the sources for financial support of public passenger transport. The next part describes the assumptions for improving road safety through increasing the support of public passenger transport. The last part analyses possible impacts of financing public passenger transport on the road safety in relation to the specified hypothesis.

The paper deals with the financing of public passenger transport. It analyses unconventional types of financing public passenger transport abroad. The aim of the paper is to present the methodology of creating funding sources for the financing of public passenger transport which is applicable in the Slovak Republic and in the member states of the European Union. The key idea of the methodology is to use funding sources arising from the provision of public services.

The paper deals with the relationship of increasing road safety through the support of bus service. The objective of the paper is to analyse the factors affecting road safety. Subsequently, the impact of the bus service support on road safety is expressed through those factors. The paper highlights the multiplier effect of the bus service support on road safety increase. First part of the paper analyses factors affecting road safety. The factors are divided into three groups in terms of infrastructure, vehicles and drivers. Further part emphasizes the possibilities for improving individual factors under the support of bus service. The last part of the paper processes a theoretical model which reflects the impact of the bus service support on increasing road safety.