Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society 2020, 23(2), 40-45 DOI 10.4467/2543859XPKG.20.006.12104 Received: 27.04.2020 Received in revised form: 18.05.2020 Accepted: 20.05.2020 Published: 15.06.2020 THE INFLUENCE OF COVID-19 ON REGIONAL RAILWAY SERVICES IN ITALY AND POLAND Wpływ COVID-19 na regionalne usługi kolejowe we Włoszech i w Polsce Jakub Taczanowski (1), Arkadiusz Kołoś (2) (1) Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland e-mail:
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[email protected] Citation: Taczanowski J., Kołoś A., 2020, The influence of COVID-19 on regional railway services in Italy and Poland, Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG, 23(2), 40–45. Abstract: The aim of the paper is to compare the scale of regional train cancellation in Italy and Poland in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic and to answer the question whether different approaches to public transport limitation can be observed at national and regional scales in different European countries. The article is a preliminary study and as such contains the first observations and initial conclusions. From the analysis it results that the influence of COVID-19 on regional railway transport in both Italy and Poland is strong but much different. In Italy the scale of cancellation is generally larger and so are the differ- ences between the regions. In both analysed countries the lines which have turned out to be mostly affected by suspension are urban and suburban connections with dense train traffic.