Do I really like to shift to rail? Influence of rail modernisation on passenger preferences
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F25%3A00140445" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/25:00140445 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221053952400186X" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221053952400186X</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101284" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101284</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Do I really like to shift to rail? Influence of rail modernisation on passenger preferences
Original language description
The emphasis on environmentally friendly solutions is steadily increasing in the transport sector. The topic of this article is a discussion of the long-term European initiative shift to rail. This initiative is confronted with historical facts, using the rail connection between Prague and Pilsen in Czechia. Numerous modernisation activities have been carried out on this line and have led to a qualitative change in transport, albeit on a conventional railway line and not high-speed rail (HSR). The paper evaluates whether a significant rail infrastructure upgrade leads to a change in transport and residential behaviour. The evaluation relies on identifying relevant upgrade projects and assessing the costs of upgrading this conventional railway. According to the results showing a significant increase in ridership, passengers consider changes, frequency, and travel time to be the crucial factors of the fundamental change in service quality caused by the modernisation of the line. These changes are confirmed and emphasised by 29 in-depth interviews with new rail passengers using the train connection between Prague and Pilsen, identifying individual preferences and motives for changing travel behaviour. The results show that a upgrade of a conventional rail line (comparable in cost to the construction of HSR in Spain) saw significant savings in travel time of 17% and motivated operators to increase frequency by almost 50%, increasing ridership to more than double. Passengers’ interviews revealed more topics such as services, comfort, and the difficult parking situation in Prague, possible determinants for relocation and daily commuting.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20700 - Environmental engineering
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_026%2F0008430" target="_blank" >EF16_026/0008430: New Mobility - High-Speed Transport Systems and Transport-Related Human Behaviour</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Research in Transportation Business & Management
ISSN
2210-5395
e-ISSN
2210-5409
Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
March
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1-13
UT code for WoS article
001410459000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85213253569