Impact of COVID-19 on public transport usage in an anticipated ‘new normal’ situation: The case of a South Asian country based on first wave data

A longitudinal analysis of the COVID-19 effects on the variability in human activity spaces in Quito, Ecuador

“…This new lifestyle generated considerable changes in people's daily mobility (Toger et al, 2021), travel behaviour (Costa et al, 2022;Lee et al, 2023;Paul et al, 2022), transportation systems used (Borkowski et al, 2021;Rahmat & Khoo, 2022;Zafri et al, 2023), travel demand (Shemer et al, 2022), travel distances (K. Chen & Steiner, 2022;Shende et al, 2023), route choice (Marra et al, 2022), commuting travels (Balbontin et al, 2021) and jobs-housing relationships (R. Chen et al, 2023). Many travel and commuting patterns compared to the pre-COVID-19 era changed.…”

Modelling of Passenger Satisfaction and Reuse Intention with Monorail Services in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: A Hybrid SEM-ANN Approach

“…The COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced the ridership of the Kuala Lumpur monorail service to 4,226,329 in 2021 and 7,143,534 in 2022 [14]. The movement restriction, Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) and Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) implemented by governments across the globe to prevent the spread of the virus transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic had a similar impact on public transport performance in other countries, such as Italy [17], Slovakia [18,19], Thailand [20], Bangladesh [21], and others [22]. The public avoided crowded spaces, including public transport, due to the fear of contracting the illness.…”

The Effects of Covid19 on Public and Paratransit Drivers in Developing Countries

“…The measures taken by governments worldwide to limit the spread of the virus including partial or full lockdown by April 2020, reduced seating capacity, along with fear of contracting the virus among passengers affected approximately 90% of the world's population (Gössling et al, 2020), reduced mobility to the minimum (Fielbaum et al, 2023) and resulted in low ridership (Jenelius and Cebecauer, 2020;Rasca et al, 2021). The effect of these measures has challenged the resilience of public transport use and is anticipated to lead to a long-lasting reduction in public transport demand in future (Sung and Monschauer, 2020;Wang et al, 2022), as fewer people are travelling than before the pandemic (Anable et al, 2022;Zafri et al, 2023). Zavareh and Mehdizadeh (2022) and Ansari et al (2023) highlight circumstantial effects of some of the measures such as wearing of facemask or taking antivirals while travelling increase in risk perception and psychological stress.…”

“…Although, the full range of impacts of COVID-19 will unfold over time. In mainstream transport research, most of the studies have contributed to understanding how the pandemic has impacted public transport operations and investigated its implications for end users i.e., passengers e.g., Mogaji (2020) in Nigeria, Bhaduri et al (2020) and Das et al (2021) in India, Abdullah et al (2022) in Pakistan, and Jamal et al (2022) and Zafri et al (2023) in Bangladesh. However, there are not many studies investigating the effects of outbreak response strategies on the lives of public and (informal) paratransit drivers (collectively termed as public transport drivers for this study) in these countries.…”