Evaluation of changes in corridor railway traffic in the Czech Republic during the pandemic year 2020

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Geographia Cassoviensis Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.33542/gc2023-1-03

Michal KUČERA, Zdena DOBEŠOVÁ

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Abstract

Railway traffic was significantly affected by the global Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The article's main objective is to evaluate the changes in rail transport on rail corridors in the Czech Republic in 2020. The traffic from that year was compared with the values from previous years. The Czech Statistical Office provided the data base for general infor-mation about railway transport. This contains details of freight and passenger transport and the performance of that transport for the whole country, as reported by the Ministry of Transport. The presented evaluation of changes in rail traffic is based on traffic param-eters obtained from the railway infrastructure administrator of the Railway Infrastructure Administration. The changes were evaluated from three hundred points located on the cor-ridor railways. The first part of the article describes the evaluation of changes in each traffic parameter. In 2020 passenger traffic was characterised by a significant decrease in the total number of trains on most corridors. Cargo trains took up the railway traffic capacity released by the drop in demand for passenger trains, and the number of cargo trains increased as a result. Passenger trains were shortened due to the low demand for transport during the pandemic. This fact was reported in the parameter of average train length. The second part contains a comprehensive assessment based on clustering methods. The clustering enabled the detection of those sections of the rail corridors that had similar changes in rail traffic in all the monitored parameters in 2020. URL: https://www.gcass.science.upjs.sk/

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对2020年大流行期间捷克共和国走廊铁路交通变化的评估

2020年，全球新冠肺炎疫情对铁路交通造成重大影响。本文的主要目的是评估2020年捷克共和国铁路走廊铁路运输的变化。那一年的交通流量与前几年的数据进行了比较。捷克统计局提供了关于铁路运输的一般资料的数据库。这包含了由交通运输部报告的全国货运和客运的详细情况以及运输的表现。本文对轨道交通变化的评估是基于从铁路基础设施管理局的铁路基础设施管理员那里获得的交通参数。这些变化是从位于走廊铁路上的300个点来评估的。文章的第一部分描述了对每个流量参数变化的评估。2020年，客运的特点是大多数走廊上的列车总数大幅减少。货运列车填补了旅客列车需求下降所释放的铁路运力，货运列车数量随之增加。由于大流行期间交通需求低，客运列车缩短。这一事实反映在列车平均长度参数中。第二部分是基于聚类方法的综合评价。聚类可以检测到2020年所有监测参数中铁路交通变化相似的铁路走廊部分。URL: https://www.gcass.science.upjs.sk/

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Geographia Cassoviensis GEOGRAPHY-

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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.