Rail transport and COVID-19: implications for research and policy

John Preston, John Armstrong, Yung-Cheng Lai, Melody Khadem Sameni and Joe Preece

Chapter 11 in Research Handbook on Transport and COVID-19, 2025, pp 219-232 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter draws on a special session at WCTR16 (2023) on the impact of COVID-19 on rail transport and a webinar on the same topic in the previous year. It reviews global developments in rail transport since 2020, with a particular focus on Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. Trends in rail passenger and freight demand and supply are assessed, along with assessments of the impacts of COVID-19 on the economics of the rail transport industry. Different research approaches are reviewed, including both qualitative approaches, such as scenario analysis and the development of personas, and quantitative approaches such as econometric methods, structural equation modelling and machine learning. Results from both primary and secondary data are considered. The strengths and weaknesses of railways in the face of pandemics are assessed, along with assessments of the opportunities and threats presented by COVID-19.

Keywords: Rail policy; Research methods; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802208009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781802208016.00018 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21311_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().