Bilješke o razvoju autobuskog prevoza na području Gračanice do 1992. godine
Notes about the development of bus traffic in Gračanica until 1992

Summary/Abstract: The accelerated development of passenger traffic in the Gračanica area begins after the abolition of the narrow-gauge Gračanica-Karanovac railway in 1968 and intensifies after the reconstruction and asphalting of the regional Tuzla – Doboj and Gračanica – Srnice roads. Gračanica gained an “asphalted exit leading into the world” that way. Although all of this happened with a great deal of delay, it still had a positive effect on the overall socio-economic and demographic development of the whole region (faster employment and education, better supply of goods, more intensive agricultural development, as well as healthcare, cultural and other development). Among other things, this was also an incentive to accelerate the reconstruction and asphalting of local roads, primarily roads leading to larger settlements as well as the introduction of bus traffic within the boundaries of the municipality, but as well as the development of the traffic between different municipalities. Consequently, we see a dynamic development of transport companies in Gračanica from the seventies; in 1988 these will take the name “Avis”. From a small company that in 1970 had two vehicles and several employees, grew a prosperous company with about 140 employees, which had 34 buses and other transport infrastructure (mechanical workshops with necessary overhaul capacities, bus stations, tourist agencies, and other business premises). Although the company was left without one of its vital parts in the work process at the beginning of the latest war and more than a third of its motorpool, faced with numerous known problems and difficulties, the company did not cease working for even a single day, and all the tasks related to the transportation of army troops, refugees and wounded people, included the regular connection of the settlements around Gračanica with the town, and Gračanica with Tuzla, was correctly and wholly handled by it during this whole period.In the presented example of Gračanica, which is one of the last cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina that only received an asphalt road in 1974, it has been shown that the state of the traffic infrastructure, in this case the road network, is one of the main prerequisites for the total social, economic development as well as the prosperity of one place, one municipality and the whole country. The state of this specific matter is one of the main indications of civilizational developments and values of one area. In this context it is clear that without good roads there is no traffic, and without traffic no development.

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