Public Transit Ridership Analysis During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Ahangari, Samira; Chavis, Celeste; Jeihani, Mansoureh

doi:10.1101/2020.10.25.20219105

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic brought a dramatic reduction in the use of mass transit as people both reduced their travel and shifted to other modes, afraid of getting infected on crowded buses, subways, and rail cars (Abdullah et al 2020;Ahangari et al 2020;Aloi et al 2020; Jenelius and Cebecauer 2020) (Figure 6). In some systems, ridership fell by more than 90% (Aloi et al 2020;Liu et al 2020;Olin 2020).…”

Section: Changing Modes Of Travel?mentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health

Frumkin

2021

Environ Health Perspect

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BACKGROUND: Since the dawn of cities, the built environment has both affected infectious disease transmission and evolved in response to infectious diseases. COVID-19 illustrates both dynamics. The pandemic presented an opportunity to implement health promotion and disease prevention strategies in numerous elements of the built environment. OBJECTIVES: This commentary aims to identify features of the built environment that affect the risk of COVID-19 as well as to identify elements of the pandemic response with implications for the built environment (and, therefore, for long-term public health). DISCUSSION: Built environment risk factors for COVID-19 transmission include crowding, poverty, and racism (as they manifest in housing and neighborhood features), poor indoor air circulation, and ambient air pollution. Potential long-term implications of COVID-19 for the built environment include changes in building design, increased teleworking, reconfigured streets, changing modes of travel, provision of parks and greenspace, and population shifts out of urban centers. Although it is too early to predict with confidence which of these responses may persist, identifying and monitoring them can help health professionals, architects, urban planners, and decision makers, as well as members of the public, optimize healthy built environments during and after recovery from the pandemic.

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Section: Changing Modes Of Travel?mentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health

Frumkin

2021

Environ Health Perspect

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“…In Baltimore, passenger numbers began to decline from March 2020, while in Washington, Detroit, Seatle, Minneapolis and several others, passenger numbers were recorded as early as April 2020 (Ahangari et al, 2020). This phenomenon has also been observed in India.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 85%

Ways Residents of Large Cities in Poland, Commute before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Anna¹,

Kasyk²

2021

ERSJ

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Purpose:The article concerns the issues related to the methods of movement of people in urban areas by means of cars, trams, buses, bicycles, e-scooters, electric scooters and on foot. Its purpose is to present selected factors determining this choice. Design/Methodology/Approach: The authors, using the proprietary questionnaire, conducted a survey among the inhabitants of one of the largest cities in Poland -Szczecin to determine their current preferences related to the way of movement before and during the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. Non-parametric dual and multiple comparison tests, the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis rank ANOVA were performed. The Cronbach's α coefficient was used to assess the reliability of the measuring scale. Findings: The conducted analyzes allowed to determine the most common ways of traveling, the level of their safety and accessibility for residents. Statistically significant differences were found in respondents' opinions, depending on age, gender, industry, and education. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on opinions on the frequency of use, safety, and availability of means of transport in Szczecin was verified. The analysis showed a slight decrease in the declared frequency of using the analyzed means of transport and no decrease in the safety assessment of the analyzed means of transport during the application of the restrictions related to Covid-19. Practical Implications: The presented analysis and assessment of the ways in which the inhabitants of Szczecin move could be used in rational actions of the local authorities aimed at improving the quality of life of the inhabitants and friendly to the inhabitants of the city in the context of public and individual transport. Originality/Value: The authors compared the preferences of the ways of movement and the implemented solutions with the parameters of their effectiveness, based on the experimental results and foreign literature.

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“…Some studies explored the causes of high risk of mass transit due to density, diversity of contact, and high probability of infected person mobility due to non-tracking system which in turn leads to the public reduction to use of mass transit [23,24]. Further, researchers have studied that there is a significant reduction in ridership of public transportation due to the perceived risk of COVID-19 by the public [14,25,26]. A Sweden-based study showed a 40-60% reduction in ridership of public transportation due to the risk perception of lower active public transport users [27], whereas researchers have shown that the reasons behind the risk being infected are mass mobility with congested cases, the behaviour of co-travellers with COVID protocol, and fear of becoming infected [28].…”

Section: Impact Of Pandemic Conditions On Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%