COVID-19 passenger transport measures and their impacts

Governments all over the world have had to implement various policy measures in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, impacting many people's lives and livelihoods. Combinations of measures targeting the transportation sector and other aspects of social life have been implemented with varying degrees of success in different countries. This paper proposes a classification of COVID-19 measures aimed at passenger mobility. The authors distinguish the categories “avoidance of travel”, “modal shift” and “improvement of quality”. Per category, the authors distinguish different types of measures and effects (social, economic and environmental). Next, the authors review the literature on COVID-19 measures for passenger mobility, after which the authors discuss the policy relevance of their findings and propose a research agenda. The authors conclude that broad or integral assessments of measures on all socially relevant effects are rare. Also, few studies exist to determine the effects of individual measures and deal with combinations of measures instead. Studies on social or economic effects focus on partial direct effects (e.g. turnover of the transport sector, effect of mobility measures on commuter traffic) and do not elaborate on indirect effects (e.g. changes in household expenditure, stress levels). Finally, there is a greater focus in the literature on intermediary health indicators (e.g. travel behaviour) but less on the actual spread of COVID-19 or indeed on other indirect health effects of measures (e.g. due to air pollution, more exercise, etc).

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2021.1976307
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2021 Ruth Shortall et al. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
• Authors:
  • Shortall, Ruth
  • Mouter, Niek
  • Van Wee, Bert
• Publication Date: 2022-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 441-466
• Serial:
  • Transport Reviews
  • Volume: 42
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 0144-1647
  • EISSN: 1464-5327
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttrv20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: COVID-19; Impacts; Literature reviews; Mobility; Passengers
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01851459
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2022 9:25AM