COVID-19 and public transport: insights from Belgium (Brussels), Estonia (Tallinn), Germany (Berlin, Dresden, Munich), and Sweden (Stockholm) ...

As we are submitting this report in December 2020, COVID-19 has had a complex and multifaceted effect on public transport (PT) and its use. The emergence of the virus altered both who used PT and how these users experienced their journeys. This study complicates the fear-focused narrative that often framed PT during the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights diverse experiences of PT, which yet are often socially unequal. This report details the design and outcome of a multi-sited study investigating PT during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study began in March 2020 as part of PUTSPA... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Finbom, Marcus
Kębłowski, Wojciech
Sgibnev, Wladimir
Sträuli, Louise
Timko, Peter
Tuvikene, Tauri
Weicker, Tonio
Dokumenttyp: Text
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: public transport / epidemic / public space / mobility / mobility studies / traffic behaviour / contagious disease / risk / risk behaviour / choice of means of transport / Estonia / Sweden / Belgium / Federal Republic of Germany / Covid-19
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28937482
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5221212

As we are submitting this report in December 2020, COVID-19 has had a complex and multifaceted effect on public transport (PT) and its use. The emergence of the virus altered both who used PT and how these users experienced their journeys. This study complicates the fear-focused narrative that often framed PT during the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights diverse experiences of PT, which yet are often socially unequal. This report details the design and outcome of a multi-sited study investigating PT during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study began in March 2020 as part of PUTSPACE, an international research project supported by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). It consisted of an online survey (n=1095) and series of semi-structured follow-up interviews (n=49). The survey and interviews solicited information about PT users’ mobility behaviour after the outbreak of COVID-19 as well as their experiences on and perceptions of PT during the initial months of the pandemic. ...