The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities
To curb the spread of the ongoing 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), authorities have adopted several non-pharmaceutical (NPIs) and pharmaceutical interventions, which significantly affected our daily activities and mobility patterns. However, it is still unclear how severity of NPIs, COVID-19-relat...
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| description | To curb the spread of the ongoing 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), authorities have adopted several non-pharmaceutical (NPIs) and pharmaceutical interventions, which significantly affected our daily activities and mobility patterns. However, it is still unclear how severity of NPIs, COVID-19-related variables, and vaccination rates have affected demand for ridesourcing services, and whether these effects vary across small towns and large cities. We analyzed over 220 million ride requests in the City of Chicago (population: 2.7 million), Illinois, and 52 thousand in the Town of Innisfil (population: 37 thousand), Ontario, to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ridesourcing demand in the two locations. Overall, the pandemic resulted in fewer trips in areas with higher proportions of seniors and more trips to parks and green spaces. Ridesourcing demand was adversely affected by the stringency index and COVID-19-related variables, and positively affected by vaccination rates. However, compared to Innisfil, ridesourcing services in Chicago experienced higher reductions in demand, were more affected by the number of hospitalizations and deaths, were less impacted by vaccination rates, and had lower recovery rates. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c886cbb90be6401fbc4879bb9636976f2022-12-22T02:24:53ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-011710The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large citiesNael AlsalehBilal FarooqTo curb the spread of the ongoing 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), authorities have adopted several non-pharmaceutical (NPIs) and pharmaceutical interventions, which significantly affected our daily activities and mobility patterns. However, it is still unclear how severity of NPIs, COVID-19-related variables, and vaccination rates have affected demand for ridesourcing services, and whether these effects vary across small towns and large cities. We analyzed over 220 million ride requests in the City of Chicago (population: 2.7 million), Illinois, and 52 thousand in the Town of Innisfil (population: 37 thousand), Ontario, to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ridesourcing demand in the two locations. Overall, the pandemic resulted in fewer trips in areas with higher proportions of seniors and more trips to parks and green spaces. Ridesourcing demand was adversely affected by the stringency index and COVID-19-related variables, and positively affected by vaccination rates. However, compared to Innisfil, ridesourcing services in Chicago experienced higher reductions in demand, were more affected by the number of hospitalizations and deaths, were less impacted by vaccination rates, and had lower recovery rates.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9565726/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Nael Alsaleh Bilal Farooq The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities PLoS ONE |
| title | The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities |
| title_full | The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities |
| title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities |
| title_short | The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities |
| title_sort | impact of covid 19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9565726/?tool=EBI |
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