Out of Prague: a week-long intermodal shift from air to rail transport after Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010

Kvizda, Martin; Seidenglanz, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.04.014

Cited by 8 publications

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“…If we focus on the relationship between transport emergencies and the scope, we find that most of these events are local or regional in scope. The literature deals mainly with their influence on transport infrastructure (Huibregtse et al, 2016;Da lziell, Nicholson, 2001;Pregnolato et al, 2017;Taniguchi, Thompson, Yamada, 2010) or changes in passenger transport behavior (Kvizda, Seidenglanz, 2014). With an increasing scale, the number of cases is declining and disasters on a global scale are rare in history, especially epidemics (plague, cholera, Spanish and bird flu, SARS, etc.).…”

Section: Public Transportation Under the Epidemic Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transport in times of an epidemic: public transport measures in the Czech Republic and its regions

Vrána

Surmařová

Hlisnikovský

et al. 2021

Review of Economic Perspectives

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In the first half of 2020, the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus became a phenomenon affecting all spheres of human life. Measures against the spread of the virus have led to restrictions in life in public spaces and have also affected the transport sector. These impacts consisted of two types - firstly, the number of connections was reduced due to a drop in transport demand, and secondly, it was necessary to comply with hygiene measures on the part of carriers and passengers. The impacts of these measures could be monitored at all spatial levels, from global to local. This paper deals with the course of the so-called first wave of the pandemic in the Czech Republic in relation to public transport and its organization. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of these measures in relation to general government regulations and their subsequent implementation at the national, regional (county) and local (selected large cities) level. Furthermore, the paper uses three case studies to show what changes long-distance domestic transport has undergone on selected routes. There was a significant reduction in the number of long-distance connections, some lines were not operated at all, and of course, all cross-border connections were canceled. The paper covers the period from the turn of February and March 2020, when the measures began to take effect, to the end of May 2020, when almost all the adopted measures were gradually relaxed. The paper concludes with a summary of the basic features of the organization of transport during the validity of the special measures, as well as areas where significant changes took place and whose consequences may persist after the pandemic subsides.

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Section: Public Transportation Under the Epidemic Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transport in times of an epidemic: public transport measures in the Czech Republic and its regions

Vrána

Surmařová

Hlisnikovský

et al. 2021

Review of Economic Perspectives

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“…Therefore, travellers used rail transport as an alternative means of transport. 20% of passengers traveling from Prague to nearby countries switched to trains (Kvizda, Seidenglanz, 2014). Another study concerned the impact of weather conditions on the operation of rail transport in Dublin.…”

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Restrictions on regional passenger transport during epidemiological threat (COVID-19) – an example of the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland

Smolarski¹

2020

PKG

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The beginning of 2020 was associated with the appearance of the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The spread of the epidemic caused the introduction of an epidemiological emergency in Poland in early March (on March 12). This resulted in reduced public transport, including regional rail transport. In Lower Silesia, this concerned regional and fast connections. The conducted analysis concerns regional connections and is based on exploration of the spatial and the quantitative aspect of these changes. The transport offer before and after the announcing of the epidemic was analysed. The results showed that most of the transport restrictions concerned the peripheries of the voivodeship (local routes). Agglomeration routes were much less affected by the restrictions. On some lines a decrease to less than 5 pairs of connections per day was recorded. Once the restrictions are removed, it may be a challenge to encourage passengers to use railways again. Despite the low number of connections on many routes, rail transport can still be considered as the basis of the transport system. This is due to the lack of an alternative bus service.

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“…This day was not affected by vis major, such as volcanic eruptions, the threat of infectious disease, or major terrorist attacksall of which have historically had an influence on air transport (Bowen & Laroe, 2006;Kvizda & Seidenglanz, 2014;Lawyer, 2016). In order to capture regular movements on the global scale, it is assumed that Wednesday is little affected by irregular journeys.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In order to capture regular movements on the global scale, it is assumed that Wednesday is little affected by irregular journeys. This day was not affected by vis major, such as volcanic eruptions, the threat of infectious disease, or major terrorist attacksall of which have historically had an influence on air transport (Bowen & Laroe, 2006;Kvizda & Seidenglanz, 2014;Lawyer, 2016). The original database comprised 3,270 airports, 37,380 links, and 67,424 flights.…”

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Global spatial organisation of air transport: The definition of functional airline regions

Halás

Kraft

Klapka

2019

Geographical Journal

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This paper deals with the issue of functional regionalisation on the global level and uses information on air transport movements as the regionalisation criterion. The analysis is based on analogies regarding the use of traditional methods, scale, and character of input information (flows) by which functional regions are usually defined. The paper tries to verify whether these analogies are viable and whether the approach can be used to assess the spatial organisation of air transport on the global level. In order to do so, the paper discusses some aspects of the development of air transport and then defines functional airline regions and their prominent cores (i.e., hub airports). The regionalisation algorithm uses a database containing more than 48,000 routes and connecting almost 1,000 airports. The results are discussed in relation to issues concerning the spatial concentration of world air transport, the spatial patterns of global functional airline regions, and the classification of world airline hubs.

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Out of Prague: a week-long intermodal shift from air to rail transport after Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Transport in times of an epidemic: public transport measures in the Czech Republic and its regions

Transport in times of an epidemic: public transport measures in the Czech Republic and its regions

Restrictions on regional passenger transport during epidemiological threat (COVID-19) – an example of the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland

Global spatial organisation of air transport: The definition of functional airline regions

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