TY - JOUR
TI - Connecting airports with cities. Perspectives of air-rail links development in central Europe
AU - Kołoś, Arkadiusz
AU - Taczanowski, Jakub
AU - Trzepacz, Piotr
TI - Connecting airports with cities. Perspectives of air-rail links development in central Europe
AB - 
	Air travel has increased rapidly in Central Europe in the first decade of the 21st century thanks to the admission of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to the European Union and the liberalization of their air travel market. Rapid increase in the number of air travelers in Central Europe created new challenges for Central European airports, which had to expand, modernize and better connect to urban cores. The best solution of the last problem is to organize rail transport, which can handle considerable high passenger volumes, avoids traffic jams, and exerts a relatively small impact on the natural environment. The creation of rail transportation systems increases the airports competitiveness of making cities and whole geographical regions more accessible in general. Another benefit of this transport is that the construction of airportrail links includes metropolitan areas which had no efficient transport systems.
VL - 2012
IS - Issue 130
PY - 2012
SN - 1644-3586
C1 - 2083-3113
SP - 107
EP - 129
DO - 10.4467/20833113PG.12.023.0664
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/connecting-airports-with-cities-perspectives-of-air-rail-links-development-in-central-europe
KW - airport access
KW - air transport in Central Europe
KW - rail transport
KW - air-rail links