Post COVID-19 public transport accessibility changes: Case study of Ostrava and Hradec Králové regions

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Geographia Cassoviensis Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.33542/gc2023-1-05

Pavel Kukuliač, Jiří Horák, David Fojtík, Igor Ivan, Ondřej Kolodziej, Lucie Orlíková, Petra Marešová

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Public transport faced various challenges during the COVID-19 period due to a large ebb in passengers during the pandemic waves, COVID-related restrictions, em-ployee sickness, and economic pressure to balance transport supply and demand. The study assesses the impact of the timetable changes on the accessibility between 2019 and 2021 in the hinterlands of two Czech cities – Hradec Králové and Ostrava. The research question is if there are considerable changes in public transport accessibility during this period which were influenced by the pandemic. Municipal accessibility is determined by the share of inaccessible municipalities, average travel time, population weighted average travel time, and average number of transfers under conditions suitable for seniors. Optimal trips to all municipalities are established with a local OpenTripPlanner server using all public urban and regional timetables including peak and off-peak hours, workdays, and non-working days. Unlike Ostrava, the pattern of accessibility of the Hradec Králové hinterland is influenced by the railway networks and bus transport corridors. Mean accessibility in 2021 slightly improved in the Hradec Králové region and slightly worsened in the Os-trava region. Some municipalities, however, showed grave decline. The most sensitive in-dicator is the share of inaccessible municipalities adapted for seniors' needs. The study confirms the importance of choosing a time of departure/arrival for the results of accessi-bility assessment. The most significant differences in the accessibility of municipalities are visible only for one of the selected departure times. Only a few municipalities show differences for both departure times, indicating variable effects on accessibility depending on the time of day-situation. The results did not confirm the anticipated general deterioration of public transport accessibility in the hinterlands of regional capitals during the pandemic period. URL: https://www.gcass.science.upjs.sk/

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2019冠状病毒病后公共交通可达性变化:以俄斯特拉发和赫拉德茨Králové地区为例

在2019冠状病毒病期间，由于大流行期间乘客大幅减少、与covid相关的限制、员工生病以及平衡运输供需的经济压力，公共交通在2019冠状病毒病期间面临各种挑战。该研究评估了2019年至2021年期间捷克两个城市(赫拉德茨Králové和俄斯特拉发)腹地的时间表变化对可达性的影响。研究的问题是，在此期间，公共交通的可达性是否受到大流行的影响而发生了相当大的变化。城市可达性由不可达城市的比例、平均出行时间、人口加权平均出行时间和适合老年人条件下的平均换乘次数决定。通过本地OpenTripPlanner服务器，使用所有城市和地区的公共时间表，包括高峰和非高峰时间、工作日和非工作日，建立到所有城市的最佳行程。与俄斯特拉发不同，赫拉德茨Králové腹地的可达性模式受到铁路网和公共汽车运输走廊的影响。赫拉德茨Králové地区2021年的平均可达性略有改善，奥斯特拉瓦地区则略有恶化。然而，一些城市的人口却出现了严重下降。最敏感的指标是为满足老年人需要而改造的无法进入的城市所占比例。该研究证实了选择出发/到达时间对于可达性评估结果的重要性。各城市在可达性方面的最显著差异仅在选定的出发时间之一可见。只有少数几个城市在两种出发时间上有所不同，这表明对可达性的影响取决于一天中不同的时间。调查结果并未证实大流行期间各区域首府腹地公共交通可达性普遍恶化的预期。URL: https://www.gcass.science.upjs.sk/

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期刊介绍： Geographia Cassoviensis is a biannual peer-reviewed journal published by the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice since 2007. It is available both in print and open-access electronic version. The journal publishes original research articles from Geography and other closely-related research fields. Since 2016 the journal is indexed in SCOPUS and ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for Humanities and Social Sciences, and since 2017 also in Emerging Sources Citation Index by Clarivate Analytics.