The Impact of the State of Emergency on the Supply of Services and Passenger Demand for Public Transport

Konečný, Vladimír; Brídziková, Mária

doi:10.2478/logi-2020-0015

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“…In the article [35], the authors examine the impact of measures taken against the spread of the pandemic in Slovakia on the number of passengers transported in suburban bus transport in Žilina self-governing region. Research was also conducted on the impact of COVID-19 on the change in supply of PPT in Slovakia, the results of which are published in [37]. The goal of the research is a more comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population mobility using SBT from the perspective of a region.…”

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Regional Differences in the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Bus Transport in the Slovak Republic

Konečný,

Zuzaniak,

Brídziková

et al. 2023

LOGI – Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the anti-pandemic measures taken have significantly affected the activities of the society and the associated need for mobility, as well as the transport behaviour of inhabitants. The goal of this research is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the change in the demand of residents for suburban bus transport (SBT) services in the regions of Slovakia. Due to the impact of the pandemic of COVID-19, there was a decrease in the number of passengers transported by SBT as well as a decrease in the supply of bus services offered in all the regions under study. The decrease in the number of passengers in the pandemic year was caused not only by COVID-19 and the anti-pandemic measures, but also by the reduction in the supply of SBT. The research confirmed the relation between the reduction in the offer of SBT and the decrease in passenger demand.

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Regional Differences in the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Bus Transport in the Slovak Republic

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Zuzaniak,

Brídziková

et al. 2023

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“…The information was aggregated to describe human mobility behaviour within cities, offering a near-complete coverage of the urban grid and a large proportion of the population. AMIs were used to analyse mobility trends and scenarios, and assess the effectiveness of mobility restrictions on human mobility [5,[21][22][23][24][25]. AMIs were also employed in studying COVID-19 transmission [26], pandemic indicators [26,27], air quality [28,29] and economic recovery [30], among other topics.…”

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Investigating the potential of aggregated mobility indices for inferring public transport ridership changes

Lizana,

Choudhury,

Watling

2024

PLoS ONE

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Aggregated mobility indices (AMIs) derived from information and communications technologies have recently emerged as a new data source for transport planners, with particular value during periods of major disturbances or when other sources of mobility data are scarce. Particularly, indices estimated on the aggregate user concentration in public transport (PT) hubs based on GPS of smartphones, or the number of PT navigation queries in smartphone applications have been used as proxies for the temporal changes in PT aggregate demand levels. Despite the popularity of these indices, it remains largely untested whether they can provide a reasonable characterisation of actual PT ridership changes. This study aims to address this research gap by investigating the reliability of using AMIs for inferring PT ridership changes by offering the first rigorous benchmarking between them and ridership data derived from smart card validations and tickets. For the comparison, we use monthly and daily ridership data from 12 cities worldwide and two AMIs shared globally by Google and Apple during periods of major change in 2020–22. We also explore the complementary role of AMIs on traditional ridership data. The comparative analysis revealed that the index based on human mobility (Google) exhibited a notable alignment with the trends reported by ridership data and performed better than the one based on PT queries (Apple). Our results differ from previous studies by showing that AMIs performed considerably better for similar periods. This finding highlights the huge relevance of dealing with methodological differences in datasets before comparing. Moreover, we demonstrated that AMIs can also complement data from smart card records when ticketing is missing or of doubtful quality. The outcomes of this study are particularly relevant for cities of developing countries, which usually have limited data to analyse their PT ridership, and AMIs may offer an attractive alternative.

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“…The environmental sustainability of the vehicle fleet change in public city transport of selected cities in Central Europe is important and therefore needs to be unequivocally supported from an urban perspective. Other contributions, for example, address whether passengers are willing to pay extra for fares if green buses are used in urban public transport [22], look at the elasticity of demand for prices in public passenger transport [23], examine the competitiveness of public passenger transport before the COVID-19 pandemic [24], respectively analyse the initial effects on transport service provision and passenger demand during the crisis [25].…”

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Examination of the Development of New Bus Registrations with Alternative Powertrains in Europe

Gnap

Dočkalik

Dydkowski

2021

LOGI – Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics

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The setting of minimum targets for EU member states to procure green vehicles within two reference periods ending in 2025 and 2030, should help to promote mobility with low, respectively zero emissions. The research results reveal that the V4 countries (Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary) will find it very difficult to meet the set minimum targets for the share of ecological buses in the total number of buses included in the sum of all contracts subject to EU Directive 2019/1161 concluded from 2 August 2021. The share of buses with alternative powertrains in the V4 countries in 2019 was only 12.79% (with the minimum target being much higher). The Nordic countries are best placed to meet the minimum targets for the share of green buses (in 2019, the share of such buses was almost 19%). The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has and continues to affect bus demand across Europe, may have a significant impact on meeting the minimum targets, especially by the end of the first reference period.

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The Impact of the State of Emergency on the Supply of Services and Passenger Demand for Public Transport

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Regional Differences in the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Bus Transport in the Slovak Republic

Regional Differences in the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Bus Transport in the Slovak Republic

Investigating the potential of aggregated mobility indices for inferring public transport ridership changes

Examination of the Development of New Bus Registrations with Alternative Powertrains in Europe

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