Quo vadis, international long-distance railway services?
Evidence from Central Europe

J 2021

Quo vadis, international long-distance railway services? Evidence from Central Europe

SEIDENGLANZ, Daniel, Jakub TACZANOWSKI, Marcin KRÓL, Marcel HORŇÁK, Tomáš NIGRIN et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Quo vadis, international long-distance railway services? Evidence from Central Europe

Autoři

SEIDENGLANZ, Daniel (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Jakub TACZANOWSKI, Marcin KRÓL, Marcel HORŇÁK a Tomáš NIGRIN

Vydání

Journal of Transport Geography, Oxford, Elsevier, 2021, 0966-6923

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50202 Applied Economics, Econometrics

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.899

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121707

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.102998

UT WoS

000647438400008

Klíčová slova anglicky

Passenger railway transport; International railway services; Long-distance trains; Transport spatial reorientation; Central Europe

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 6. 2021 10:37, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

International railway passenger services have seen considerable changes in Europe over the past few decades. Using international railway connections within and reaching outside the V4 countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) in 1990?2019 as a sample, our paper explores trends and patterns in that matter in Central Europe. We have found that the characteristic focus on relatively very frequent short or medium-distance connections using the best equipped railway corridors ? paralleled by a considerable reduction of the remaining services ? has also been clearly in evidence in this part of the world. However, trends and patterns in Central Europe are not necessarily a mirror image of what has occurred in Western Europe. For instance, although a considerable shortening of travel times has indeed been observed, it has been achieved ? characteristically ? thanks to the improved permeability of state borders after the enlargement of the EU in 2004, with only moderate improvements to infrastructure being made. Central Europe therefore seems to be the prime example of an area in which contextual, political and geopolitical factors are the keys to understanding the dynamics of changes in transport systems. On the other hand, evidence from this region may give rise to some reflections on the possible roles for the European long-distance rail transport in the future. To begin with, our results show 800 km to be the threshold beyond which the competitive position of rail becomes significantly lower. Secondly, competitive pressure from innovative newcomers (Regiojet, LeoExpress, Arriva) clearly makes national incumbents more flexible and pro-active. Thirdly, the noticeable spatial re-orientation of international railway connections from the V4 countries towards Vienna and Munich (at the expense of Berlin) that we have observed is partly related to the appeal of these cities as multimodal gates with excellent locations within European transport networks. It would therefore seem that the railways in this part of Europe have been attempting to become an integral part of the international multi-modal long-distance transport system.

Návaznosti

EF16_026/0008430, projekt VaV

Název: Nová mobilita - vysokorychlostní dopravní systémy a dopravní chování populace

Citovat

SEIDENGLANZ, Daniel, Jakub TACZANOWSKI, Marcin KRÓL, Marcel HORŇÁK a Tomáš NIGRIN. Quo vadis, international long-distance railway services? Evidence from Central Europe. Journal of Transport Geography. Oxford: Elsevier, 2021, roč. 92, April, s. "102998", 12 s. ISSN 0966-6923. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.102998.

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SEIDENGLANZ, Daniel, Jakub TACZANOWSKI, Marcin KRÓL, Marcel HORŇÁK a Tomáš NIGRIN. Quo vadis, international long-distance railway services? Evidence from Central Europe. \textit{Journal of Transport Geography}. Oxford: Elsevier, 2021, roč.~92, April, s.~''102998'', 12 s. ISSN~0966-6923. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.102998.

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