Urban Mobility, Working Culture, and Administration During the COVID-19 Crisis: Adjustments for a Resilient City

Comparing municipal progress in implementing temporary cycle lanes during the Covid-19 pandemic

“…Its aim was to investigate how transport and urban planning measures changed during the pandemic and whether temporary measures were seen to offer potential to accelerate the mobility transition. The results can be found in Stark et al (2021) .…”

“…Fifth, temporary ATMs were little known in Germany prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and their implementation was often demanded by pro-cycling activist groups, which may have influenced how they were perceived by municipal staff. The expert interviews that we conducted as part of Stark et al (2021) also suggested that administrators’ views and perceptions of temporary ATMs can affect to what extent administrative personnel engage with these measures. This is in line with predictions by the MSF.…”

“…Its levels are “not considered”, “considered, but not investigated”, “investigated, but not implemented”, “implementation started”, and “implementation completed”. The decision to assign these stages is based on knowledge gained during the expert interviews in Stark et al (2021) . They suggest that implementation progress often stalls for differing reasons at different stages.…”

“…Unlike previous research on ATMs and the Covid-19 pandemic, which uses qualitative methods and focuses on urban areas (e.g. Stark et al, 2021 ), this study delivers a more complete picture by including all types of areas and quantifying differences in implementation progress. Also, different to other studies on implementation progress like Weber (2017) , it explicitly accounts for the sequential nature of the implementation progress by estimating a sequential logistic regression model.…”