Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on passenger mobility in national and international railway traffic of the Republic of Croatia

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has brought difficult situations for the global economy and their economic activities. However, passenger traffic is one of the activities that has felt the impact of the pandemic the most. The movement of passengers was reduced to a minimum, and some forms of traffic were completely suspended. One such example is railway transport in the Republic of Croatia, whose activity was completely stopped in April 2020, which also affected the business of the company Croatian Railway Passenger Transport Ltd. In this paper, the authors will analyse the impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the mobility of passengers in national and international railway passanger transport of the Republic of Croatia.

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“…The analysis of both long-distance transport and urban bus transport was the focus of the research in [8][9][10][11]. A closer look was taken at national rail transport and its impact on customer service offerings [9,[12][13][14]. There was also the challenge of obtaining data on the evolution of the disease and associated information on which steps to take against the disease [15][16].…”