Evaluating public transit agency responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in seven U.S. regions

Karner, Alex; LaRue, Seth; Klumpenhouwer, Willem; Rowangould, Dana

doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2023.100989

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“…To demonstrate the limitations of Lorenz curve/Gini coefficient and needs-gap/transit desert approaches, we employ these methods and our proposed alternatives in an equity analysis of public transit service changes undertaken in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during the initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic. We compare two points in time: February and June 2020, representing a high point prior to the pandemic and the lowest levels of service experienced prior to a gradual increase that proceeded through 2020 (Karner et al, 2023).…”

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“…Like many transit agencies worldwide, WMATA faced a significant ridership decline during the Covid-19 pandemic and adjusted its services accordingly. By April 2020, service intensity dropped by approximately half compared to pre-pandemic levels in February 2020 (Karner et al, 2023). Weekday ridership plummeted from 640,000 in February to 36,000 in April 2020 (Sablik, 2023).…”

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Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Karner,

Pereira,

Farber

2024

Transportation

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Transportation systems play a pivotal role in facilitating access to out-of-home activities, enabling participation in various aspects of social life. But because of budgetary and physical limitations, they cannot provide equal access everywhere; inevitably, some locations will be better served than others. This realization gives rise to two fundamental concerns in transportation equity research and practice: 1) accessibility inequality and 2) accessibility poverty. Accessibility inequalities may rise to the level of injustice when some socioeconomic groups systematically have lower access to opportunities than others. Accessibility poverty occurs when people are unable to meet their daily needs and live a dignified, fulfilling life because of a lack of access to essential services and opportunities. In this paper, we review two of the most widely used approaches for evaluating transport justice concerns related to accessibility inequality and accessibility poverty: Gini coefficients/Lorenz curves and needs-gap/transit desert approaches, respectively. We discuss how their theoretical underpinnings are inconsistent with egalitarian and sufficientarian concerns in transport justice and show how the underlying assumptions of these methods and their applications found in the transportation equity literature embody many previously unacknowledged limitations that severely limit their utility. We substantiate these concerns by analysing the equity impacts of Covid-19-related service cuts undertaken in Washington, D.C. during 2020. The paper also discusses how alternative methods for measuring transportation equity both better comport with the known impacts of such changes and are consistent with underlying moral concerns.

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Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Karner,

Pereira,

Farber

2024

Transportation

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“…The reason to exclude them from the analysis is that during the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in these factors were driven by the decline in ridership, which is the outcome variable in this study. Moreover, some transit providers kept service levels almost constant and did not make major service cuts like Chicago ( Karner et al, 2023 ) and Stockholm, Västra Götaland, and Skåne in Sweden ( Jenelius and Cebecauer, 2020 ). These regions also experienced major ridership declines that reached 60% (similar to other cities), which suggests that service cuts might not be a major contributor to the decline during the period of the analysis.…”

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A multiple mediation analysis to untangle the impacts of COVID-19 on nationwide bus ridership in the United States

Ziedan

Lima

Brakewood

2023

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Isu kekerasan fisik [7], kesulitan dalam pembiayaan [8], dan keengganan masyarakat sebagai pengguna layanan [1]. Pada masa pandemi, angkutan umum semakin tenggelam karena masyarakat lebih memilih angkutan pribadi [9]. Jika tidak segera dicari jalan keluarnya, angkutan umum akan semakin sulit berkembang.…”

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Astuti,

Sulistyorini,

Usman

2023

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Pemberlakuan tarif sangat murah belum mampu menarik minat masyarakat untuk memanfaatkannya. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa tarif bukan merupakan faktor penentu minat masyarakat terhadap angkutan umum. Faktor pendorong minat masyarakat Bandar Lampung terhadap angkutan umum diteliti dengan menggunakan metode Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Instrument penelitian berupa kuesioner dengan pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang disusun berdasarkan pendekatan teoritis dan disajikan dalam Google Form. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah bahwa variabel minat adalah variabel laten yang dapat diukur melalui faktor-faktor yang menimbulkan minat itu sendiri. Penelitian dilakukan di Kota Bandar Lampung terhadap masyarakat pada rentang umur 15-60 tahun. Sampel diambil secara accidental random sampling. Kuisioner disebarkan melalui aplikasi perpesanan WhatsApp. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 348 responden untuk mewakili populasi 785.450 jiwa dengan taraf kesalahan sebesar 5%. Hasil kuisioner diestimasi dengan alat bantu AMOS 23 (trial version). Hasil estimasi menunjukkan bahwa faktor penarik berupa perbaikan dalam kemudahan menjangkau layanan, memperbaiki pelayanan angkutan umum, dan menyediakan sistem pembayaran yang terintegrasi adalah faktor yang paling dominan dalam menentukan minat masyarakat untuk beralih ke angkutan umum. Dari hasil tersebut diajukan rekomendasi untuk memperbaiki faktor-faktor penarik untuk menarik minat masyarakat beralih ke angkutan umum yaitu dengan memperbaiki keterjangkauan, memperbaiki pelayanan angkutan umum, dan menyediakan sistem pembayaran yang terintegrasi.

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Evaluating public transit agency responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in seven U.S. regions

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

A multiple mediation analysis to untangle the impacts of COVID-19 on nationwide bus ridership in the United States

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