In light of the fact that the budget closure for the previous year is only approved after the deadline for the Transportation Yearbook, this chapter summarises the budget closure for 2019 and the parameters of the approved budget plan for 2020, which are supplemented by the preliminary balance sheet data on public transport for 2020.

The final budget for the year 2019 was adopted with Prague City Assembly Resolution No. 18/70 of 2 June 2020. The total revenue in 2019 was CZK 95.4 billion, the total expenditure CZK 80.7 billion (the amount of the current, operating, expenditure was CZK 67.6 billion, the capital, investment, expenditure was CZK 13.1 billion).

Distribution of total expenditure in the municipal budget in 2019

distribution of total expenditure

current expences – traffic share

capital expenditures – share of transport

In 2019, transport continued to be the highest budget item, totalling CZK 25.5 billion (31.6 % of the City of Prague budget). According to the CSO statistical yearbook, the percentages of other budget items were as follows: 30.6 % education, 11.8 % general public administration, 5.6 % social affairs, 5.1 % culture, physical education and hobbies, 4.9 % environment, 3.9 % housing and municipal services, 3.6 % defence and security, 1.5 % health, 0.8 % water management, 0.1 % industry, trade, services, 0.1 % agriculture and 0.4 % other.

Of the CZK 25.5 billion earmarked for transport, CZK 22.0 billion (86.5 %) went to current expenditures and CZK 3.5 billion (13.5 %) to capital expenditures. With a comparable amount of annual transport budget, the share of current expenditures for transport compared to capital expenditures has risen since 2011 from 58 % to over 86 %.

Development of structure of transport expenditures in Prague municipal budgets

The budget for the year 2020 was approved by Prague City Assembly on 12 December 2019 and contained expenditures totalling CZK 81.6 billion, of that CZK 64.8 billion current and CZK 16.8 billion capital. The 2020 budget amount for transport included expenditures of CZK 27.0 billion. With 33.1 %, transport was the second largest item under the Prague budget headings (23.3 % education, youth and sport, 11.3 % treasury administration, 11.0 % internal administration, 5.2 % urban infrastructure, 4.5 % health and social affairs, 4.2 % security, 3.1 % culture and tourism, 3.1 % economy and 1.1 % municipal development).

The current expenditures in transport for 2020 were planned at CZK 21.6 billion. Aside from the subsidy for PID (CZK 16.8 billion), CZK 4.4 billion in current expenditures was earmarked for road administration (e.g. CZK 1.0 billion for winter maintenance, CZK 1.3 billion for regular maintenance, i.e. maintenance of telematic devices, traffic signals, bridges, roads and sidewalks, traffic signage, accessibility modifications, road safety measures and repairs to PID stops, and CZK 0.85 billion budgeted for summer maintenance.

Capital expenditures in transport of CZK 5.4 billion were proposed in the 2020 draft budget. Under this, CZK 250 million was earmarked for construction of the P+R Zličín III structure, CZK 180 million for renovation and handicapped access for the Opatov metro station, CZK 140 million for restoring the Troja footbridge, CZK 108 million for new lifts into the metro at Karlovo náměstí.

Coverage of PID operating costs (2020)

The Trojan footbridge in the 2020 budget claimed CZK 140 million

Costs for operating Prague Integrated Public Transport (PID) within Prague totalled CZK 19.8 billion in 2020. Fare revenue covered CZK 3.0 billion (15.2 % of costs). The decline in revenue due to the coronavirus crisis of over CZK 1 billion compared to the previous year was approximately balanced out by a slight reduction in commissioned transport (by about 12.4 million VKT). Under current expenditures, the City of Prague subsidy for operation of public transport totalled CZK 16.8 billion. Of this amount, CZK 14.7 billion went to the Prague Public Transport Company, CZK 0.9 billion served to ensure the operation of other bus lines within the city not run by that company, CZK 1.2 billion went to railway transport (here the city was helped by a state contribution for railway transport service of CZK 0.26 billion) and CZK 20 million was the subsidy for operating ferries.

Development of subsidies for PID operation within Prague 2013–2020 (CZK bn)

The Prague Public Transport Company contributed CZK 3.13 billion of its own resources and CZK 0.97 billion in available funds (pre-financing before receiving a targeted subsidy from the city) to covering investment costs for the city's transport system. CZK 1.41 billion was used for renewing the Prague Public Transport Company's fleet, with CZK 0.58 billion spent on renewal of the bus fleet, CZK 0.8 billion on another instalment for the bill-of-exchange programme used to purchase 15T tram cars in the past and CZK 34.2 million was the cost of continuing with the project of modernising KT8D5 tram cars. The company spent the most of the standard city budget subsidies, CZK 1.12 billion, on continuing work on the zero phase of the I.D metro line.