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Public transportation devalues the environment in the cities. It pollutes the air and increases noise. That is why transport companies tend to use alternative fuels for driving public transportation vehicles. The portfolio of alternative fuels on the market is extensive and it will always depend on the particular conditions of a given transport company, i.e. which alternative fuel is the most suitable one for its fleet of vehicles. The main argument for introducing alternative fuels is represented by environmental reasons. However, these should always be bound to economic expediency. The use of alternative fuels in the Czech Republic is currently not too frequent, but some cities are already using transportation vehicles with alternative fuels and testing the economic aspects of these operation alternatives. The objective of the article is to provide an analysis of the operation costs related to trolleybuses and buses and to determine which alternative seems to be more convenient on the lines serviced by trolleybuses. The research method especially included an analysis, synthesis, statistical evaluation of the given information obtained from studying scientific articles and from processing data provided by the Transport Company of Ostrava, a.s. (DPO).
Keywords: Alternative fuels, operational cost analysis, CNG, trolleybus, bus© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.