Impact of COVID-19 on Travel Behavior and Shared Mobility Systems

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to evolve, transportation systems must adapt quickly to satisfy the needs of this new reality. This necessitates further studies to understand and develop strategies that can be used to navigate this new reality, mitigate the effects from potential contagion spread, and achieve positive and healthful outcomes at a system-level. With the aim to understand some of these pressing challenges, the research team conducted a study to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on travel behavior, active engagement, shared mobility, and to understand the role played by information and communication technologies (ICT) in the current environment. The main objectives of this research study are to better understand the impacts of the global pandemic on current and future travel behavior, activity engagement, and overall trip making with special focus on shared mobility systems. The first section of this report is a comprehensive review of web-based material on the strategies embraced by shared transportation providers to tackle the new normal posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, the research team also designed and developed a comprehensive web-based stated preference survey to collect data pertaining to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior and shared mobility systems.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5038/CUTR-NCTR-RR-2020-30
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56611
• Corporate Authors:

  National Center for Transit Research

  Center for Urban Transportation Research
  University of South Florida
  Tampa, FL  United States 

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Menon, Nikhil
  • Keita, Yaye
  • Bertini, Robert L
• Publication Date: 2020-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 88p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communicable diseases; COVID-19; Impacts; Information technology; Public transit; Ridesourcing; Shared mobility; Stated preferences; Surveys; Travel behavior; Vehicle sharing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01756689
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CUTR-2020-10
• Contract Numbers: CUTR-NCTR-RR-2020-30
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 2020 4:28PM