Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19
Abstract To better understand how public transport use varied during the first year of COVID-19, we define and measure travel behavior resilience. With trip records between November 2019 and September 2020 in Kunming, China, we identify people who relied on traveling by subway both before and after...
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2022-06-01
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| author | Jiaoe Wang Jie Huang Haoran Yang David Levinson |
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| description | Abstract To better understand how public transport use varied during the first year of COVID-19, we define and measure travel behavior resilience. With trip records between November 2019 and September 2020 in Kunming, China, we identify people who relied on traveling by subway both before and after the first pandemic wave. We investigate whether and how travelers recover to their pre-pandemic mobility level. We find that public transport use recovered slowly, as urban mobility is a result of urban functionality, transport supply, social context, and inter-personal differences. In general, urban mobility represents a strengthened revisiting tendency during COVID-19, as individual’s trips occur within a more limited space. We confirm that travel behavior resilience differs by groups. Commuters recover travel frequency and length, while older people decrease frequency but retain activity space. The study suggests that policymakers take group heterogeneity and travel behavior resilience into account for transport management and city restoration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39c0f39cf39c4450bb5d6c1a65a0b99e2022-12-22T02:28:39ZengNature Portfolionpj Urban Sustainability2661-80012022-06-01211910.1038/s42949-022-00061-1Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19Jiaoe Wang0Jie Huang1Haoran Yang2David Levinson3Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of SciencesThe Centre for Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal UniversityTransportLab, School of Civil Engineering, University of SydneyAbstract To better understand how public transport use varied during the first year of COVID-19, we define and measure travel behavior resilience. With trip records between November 2019 and September 2020 in Kunming, China, we identify people who relied on traveling by subway both before and after the first pandemic wave. We investigate whether and how travelers recover to their pre-pandemic mobility level. We find that public transport use recovered slowly, as urban mobility is a result of urban functionality, transport supply, social context, and inter-personal differences. In general, urban mobility represents a strengthened revisiting tendency during COVID-19, as individual’s trips occur within a more limited space. We confirm that travel behavior resilience differs by groups. Commuters recover travel frequency and length, while older people decrease frequency but retain activity space. The study suggests that policymakers take group heterogeneity and travel behavior resilience into account for transport management and city restoration.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-022-00061-1 |
| spellingShingle | Jiaoe Wang Jie Huang Haoran Yang David Levinson Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19 npj Urban Sustainability |
| title | Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19 |
| title_full | Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19 |
| title_short | Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19 |
| title_sort | resilience and recovery of public transport use during covid 19 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-022-00061-1 |
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