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Diploma thesis deals with the problematics of external costs produced by commercial vehicles and the impact on human society and environment. The focus is on environmental costs, such as emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, noise, infrastructure costs, congestion and accident costs. The thesis introduces EU strategy and legislation considering sustainability of transport and analyses the practise in internalization of negative externalities by taxation and road charging of commercial vehicles in Member States. The thesis also quantifies the size of external costs produced by commercial vehicles in the Czech Republic by calculating their total amount. |