The impact of rail passenger transport, as a component leading to the increase of the security and movement of people, on traffic security in terms of the Covid-19 pandemic
The impact of rail passenger transport, as a component leading to the increase of the security and movement of people, on traffic security in terms of the Covid-19 pandemic

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the impact of the use of rail passenger transport on the level of road security in the European Union. The research was conducted based on data on the spatial potential of rail transport (length of railway lines) and the intensity of passenger transport in selected six European Union countries, i.e., the Czech Republic, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Italy. The dynamics of the most profound consequences of road accidents were also examined, i.e., the dynamics of the number of road accident fatalities in those countries. Such an approach was necessary to conduct a comparative analysis of changes in the dynamics of the use of passenger rail transport between 2010-2013. The research also took into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on that phenomenon. To analyze fatal accidents, data from previously selected European Union countries for 2019-2023 were used. That made it possible, in both cases, to also examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the specified analytical area.The research results showed that passenger rail transport does not play a decisive role in reducing the number of fatal road accidents. However, it seems that this is the result of incomplete use of the potential of such type of transport, which results in a slight reduction in road traffic intensity, and thus in shaping the level of road security.

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