Assessing the effects of Sunday shopping restrictions on urban mobility patterns in Poland

Borowska-Stefańska, Marta; Dulebenets, Maxim A.; Horňák, Marcel; Kowalski, Michał; Kozłowski, Dominik; Turoboś, Filip; Wiśniewski, Szymon

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103741

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“…Earlier studies revealed that the average daily number of trips made by the average resident of Łódź increased from 2.13 in the mid-1990s to 2.4 in 2013. However, subsequent studies from late 2021 have shown a significant decrease in daily mobility (to below 1.4 trips per day on weekdays) [63], which has been attributed to the effects of the pandemic [63,67].…”

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Changes to the Transport Behaviour of Inhabitants of a Large City Due the Pandemic

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Dulebenets,

Koneczny

et al. 2024

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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic and, in consequence, many countries took steps to prevent the importation and subsequent local transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, resulting in restrictions on economic activity, transport, travel, and daily mobility. Although the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on daily mobility have been widely addressed in the literature, there is a limited number of studies that indicate to what extent these changes have become permanent. The purpose of this study was to determine the nature and scale of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the local transport system of a large city in Poland (Łódź) and, above all, to identify the permanence of this impact. To accomplish these objectives, a questionnaire survey was conducted using the computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) technique on a sample of 500 residents, which included questions on daily mobility in the period before (autumn 2019) and after (autumn 2022) the pandemic. In addition, the results of the questionnaire survey were juxtaposed with data from intelligent transport systems (ITS) (data from 20 induction loops, and data on the number of tickets validated in public transport vehicles). Not only did the pandemic change the frequency of spatial motivations, but it also affected trip durations and preferred modes of transport. The most unfavourable changes concern the modal division and the increase in the use of private transport at the expense of public transport. Understanding the durability of the impact of the pandemic on changes in the spatial mobility of the population may help to develop transport policies and increase the resilience of transport systems to possible future pandemics.

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confidence: 99%

Changes to the Transport Behaviour of Inhabitants of a Large City Due the Pandemic

Borowska-Stefańska,

Dulebenets,

Koneczny

et al. 2024

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Changes in Costs Incurred by Car Users of the Local Transport System Due to the Implementation of Sunday Retail Restrictions

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Kowalski²,

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et al. 2022

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The correlation between retail trade and the transport system is clear. Shops are customer oriented, and to visit them, the shopper needs to travel by a mode of transport and find a suitable time to do so. Due to the concentration of retail outlets in large-format shopping centres, these have become among the greatest attractors and traffic generators (including car traffic). While their attraction potential and traffic generation are well established in the literature, research on disruptions to the retail market and their impact on the transport system remains sparse. The authors—wishing to extend the scope of research on this subject matter—set themselves the objective of examining the extent to which Sunday retail restrictions affect the efficiency of the local road transport system. They applied time-measured costs (queuing and delayed travel times) as a measure of efficiency. Empirical measurements of traffic volumes were employed in the study, and the measure of efficiency was calculated through microsimulation traffic modelling based on a psychophysical car-following model. However, the returned results prove to be inconclusive. A decrease in the temporal cost incurred by road users is observed in areas around shopping centres located in the city centre and the outskirts. A different pattern, however, is observed close to shopping centres located on an axis connecting the city centre to residential areas. The main conclusion from this study is that the changes in traffic density seen due to Sunday retail restrictions should induce further analyses of the changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of traffic. As a result, a more efficient traffic management that is adjusted to a given day of the week and specific situation on that day could be implemented.

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Assessing the effects of Sunday shopping restrictions on urban mobility patterns in Poland

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Changes to the Transport Behaviour of Inhabitants of a Large City Due the Pandemic

Changes to the Transport Behaviour of Inhabitants of a Large City Due the Pandemic

Changes in Costs Incurred by Car Users of the Local Transport System Due to the Implementation of Sunday Retail Restrictions

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