Long-Distance Passenger Rail Services: Review and Improvement
Abstract: The situation of long-distance in Europe rail has faced different developments at literally different speeds since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Relevant central European parts of the OEM Corridor (e.g. Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary) first suffered a considerable decline in cross-border long-distance rail traffic due to the emergence of low-cost airlines and the freedom of car purchase in the 1990s. Since the beginning of the millennium and partly following the 2004 accession of Middle and Eastern European countries to the European Union, a slight renaissance of Eurocity trains and market penetration of high-speed rail products can be perceived. The other countries in the eastern part of the corridor have mostly not recovered from the rail decline and lag behind. In Greece, rail development suffers generally from unfavourable conditions (different track gauges and disproportion of land and population distribution) and a lack of innovation, and has thus been negat
- Alternative title
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Schienenpersonenfernverkehr: Bewertung und Weiterentwicklung
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 156-174 S.
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Scholl, Bernd (Hg.), Perić, Ana (Hg.), Niedermaier, Mathias (Hg.): Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development in Europe: Example of the Orient/East-Med Corridor. 2019. S. 156-174. ISBN 978-3-88838-095-2
- Bibliographic citation
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Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development in Europe: Example of the Orient/East-Med Corridor ; Bd. 12
Forschungsberichte der ARL ; Bd. 12
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Veröffentlichung
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Hannover, Mannheim
- (who)
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Verl. d. ARL, SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
- (when)
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2019
- Creator
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Endemann, Peter
- Contributor
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Scholl, Bernd
Perić, Ana
Niedermaier, Mathias
Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung - Leibniz-Forum für Raumwissenschaften
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-66486-1
- Rights
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
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25.03.2025, 1:54 PM CET
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Associated
- Endemann, Peter
- Scholl, Bernd
- Perić, Ana
- Niedermaier, Mathias
- Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung - Leibniz-Forum für Raumwissenschaften
- Verl. d. ARL, SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
Time of origin
- 2019