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The influence of COVID-19 on regional railway services in Italy and Poland

Publication date: 15.06.2020

Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 2020, 23 (2) Special Issue, pp. 40 - 45

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543859XPKG.20.006.12104

Authors

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Jakub Taczanowski
Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, ul. Gronostajowa 7, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-5982 Orcid
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Arkadiusz Kołoś
Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, ul. Gronostajowa 7, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3606-7122 Orcid
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The influence of COVID-19 on regional railway services in Italy and Poland

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to compare the scale of regional train cancellation in Italy and Poland in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic and to answer the question whether different approaches to public transport limitation can be observed at national and regional scales in different European countries. The article is a preliminary study and as such contains the first observations and initial conclusions. From the analysis it results that the influence of COVID-19 on regional railway transport in both Italy and Poland is strong but much different. In Italy the scale of cancellation is generally larger and so are the differences between the regions. In both analysed countries the lines which have turned out to be mostly affected by suspension are urban and suburban connections with dense train traffic. It would seem that in Italy exactly as in Poland the train cancellations are more the result of the character of the operated rail system, the different approaches to regional rail transport and of the tendency to cut costs than of the actual epidemic situation in the regions.

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Information: Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 2020, 23 (2) Special Issue, pp. 40 - 45

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

The influence of COVID-19 on regional railway services in Italy and Poland

English:

The influence of COVID-19 on regional railway services in Italy and Poland

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-5982

Jakub Taczanowski
Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, ul. Gronostajowa 7, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-5982 Orcid
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Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, ul. Gronostajowa 7, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3606-7122

Arkadiusz Kołoś
Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, ul. Gronostajowa 7, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3606-7122 Orcid
All publications →

Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, ul. Gronostajowa 7, Poland

Published at: 15.06.2020

Received at: 27.04.2020

Accepted at: 20.05.2020

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY  licence icon

Percentage share of authors:

Jakub Taczanowski (Author) - 50%
Arkadiusz Kołoś (Author) - 50%

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