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B. Rüger, M. Mailer:
"Car-free travel to holiday regions - measures to strengthen the railway";
Talk: 6th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure CETRA 2020, Pula/HR (Online Conference); 2021-05-20 - 2021-05-21; in: "6th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure", (2021), 7 pages.

There are two main reasons why people often choose to travel by car rather than by train. On the one hand, there is the transport of luggage, which many find too difficult. This is especially true when changing trains or travelling with children. Secondly, concern about the lack of mobility options at the holiday destination without a vehicle of one's own is a reason to prefer to go on holiday in one's own car.
The paper refers to the easytravel project, an extensive research project in the Ötztal valley, a typical holiday region in Austria with a pronounced winter and summer tourism. The paper addresses the needs and concrete requirements of holidaymakers with regard to luggage transport and mobility offers in the holiday region and shows concrete measures how the willingness to travel by train can be improved.

sustainable tourism, luggage transport, sustainable mobility, easy booking

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_302402.pdf