Public transport accessibility to hospitals in the city of Córdoba: a comparative analysis in times of a pandemic (2019-2021)

Martinazzo, Lucila; Falavigna, Claudio

doi:10.32358/rpd.2022.v8.589

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“…If the comparison is made between both study years, the mean value indicated in the boxplots of Figure 4 shows lower travel times for 2023 than for 2022, and the spread of the estimations also seems smaller for 2023. These general tendencies were also observed in the work of Martinazzo and Falavigna (2022), as described in Section 2.4, and are confirmed by the principal statistics in Table 2. The difference in average travel times between Q1 and Q5 is around 15 min for 2022 and 14 min for 2023.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…The function also has arguments that can be set by the user, such as modes, departure date and time, time window, percentiles, maximum walking, biking, or by car time, maximum trip duration, fare structure, and max fare to consider monetary constraints, average walking or biking speed, among others. As selected in the previous Martinazzo and Falavigna's (2022) work, the analyzed time window was between 9 and 11 in the morning, and the departure date was set on an April Wednesday in 2022 and 2023. The maximum walking time was 10 min, equivalent to the 833 m walk used in the cited work, the maximum trip duration was 120 min, and the percentile selected was 85, meaning 85% of trips between every origin and destination pair are shorter than the obtained result.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In opposition, 61% of people attended a private hospital using a private car, compared to only 29% of public transport usage. Martinazzo and Falavigna (2022) evaluated the potential accessibility to public hospitals between 2019 and 2021 by public transport in Córdoba to analyze and compare pre-COVID and during-COVID geographical accessibility to healthcare centers. The comparative analysis was made using the r5r package in R with the GTFS provided by the municipality, and the travel times were calculated with programmed schedules and frequencies and fixed values of maximum travel time and maximum walking distance.…”

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“…In contrast, preliminary results from the 2022 census indicate that the city population is 1, 565,112 (INDEC, 2023), resulting in the second-largest city in Argentina. The city is also the reference for the province and the central region, as the consolidated area of Córdoba city concentrates the employment and service (Martinazzo and Falavigna, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The main objective of this work was to show the differential impacts that changes in the public transport system have on more and less vulnerable groups of households using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and other geo-referenced data to emphasize the importance of accessibility assessments in transport planning and operation. The reference is a previous work from Martinazzo and Falavigna (2022) that calculates accessibility to healthcare facilities in Córdoba (Argentina) between 2019 and 2021, used in this work as a baseline to evaluate how the modifications in the transport system in the post-pandemic years impacted population according to its social and economic vulnerability. An analysis of the impact on accessibility that the location of new hospitals has is also included.…”

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A comparative analysis of public transport accessibility to hospitals in Córdoba (2019–2023): Where are we now?

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2023

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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the mobility restrictions governments imposed to prevent its spread changed the cities’ ways of living. Transport systems suffered the consequences of the falling travel demand, and readjustments were made in many cities to prevent the complete shutdown of services. In Córdoba, the second largest city in Argentina, the Municipality dictated route cuts and reduced frequencies to sustain the buses and trolleys system. In 2022, Martinazzo and Falavigna assessed potential accessibility to hospitals before (2019) and during the pandemic (2021). Overall, the study indicated that average travel times increased by 20% and that the gap between less vulnerable and more vulnerable population quintiles reached almost 8 points. In this paper, potential accessibility to public hospitals in 2022 and 2023 is calculated using Martinazzo and Falavigna’s (2022) work as a baseline to compare, considering that neither cutting the services during the pandemic nor recovering the service after the pandemic the Municipality performed an accessibility assessment. The main results showed that, despite the system having almost recovered its extension by 2023, it maintained the regressive tendency between less vulnerable and more vulnerable population quintiles, as the difference in average travel time between these two groups reached up to 14 min, while the cumulative opportunities measure for the high-income groups was up to 68% higher than the most vulnerable households.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Accessibility To Public Hospitals In Córdobamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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