Covid-19 pandemic impacts on essential transit riders: findings from a US Survey

Q He, D Rowangould, A Karner, M Palm… - … Research Part D …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated public transit service across the United States and
caused significant decreases in ridership. Little is known about the reasons for unevenness …

[HTML][HTML] Public transit use in the United States in the era of COVID-19: Transit riders' travel behavior in the COVID-19 impact and recovery period

MEG Parker, M Li, MA Bouzaghrane, H Obeid, D Hayes… - Transport policy, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has upended travel across the world, disrupting commute patterns, mode
choices, and public transit systems. In the United States, changes to transit service and …

Who left riding transit? Examining socioeconomic disparities in the impact of COVID-19 on ridership

S Hu, P Chen - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a globally unprecedented decline in transit ridership.
This paper leveraged the 20-years daily transit ridership data in Chicago to infer the impact …

Impact of COVID-19 on public transit accessibility and ridership

M Wilbur, A Ayman, A Sivagnanam… - Transportation …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
COVID-19 has radically transformed urban travel behavior throughout the world. Agencies
have had to provide adequate service while navigating a rapidly changing environment with …

Requiem for transit ridership? An examination of who abandoned, who will return, and who will ride more with mobility as a service

J Soria, D Edward, A Stathopoulos - Transport Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
To adhere to health regulations and reduce the risks associated with the COVID-19
pandemic, employers, mobility operators, and travelers alike adopted new strategies such …

[HTML][HTML] Will transit recover? A retrospective study of nationwide ridership in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Ziedan, C Brakewood, K Watkins - Journal of public transportation, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the COVID-19 pandemic highly impacted transit ridership as people reduced or
stopped travel, these changes occurred at different rates in different regions across the …

Facing the future of transit ridership: shifting attitudes towards public transit and auto ownership among transit riders during COVID-19

M Palm, J Allen, Y Zhang, I Tiznado-Aitken, B Batomen… - Transportation, 2024 - Springer
Public transit agencies face a transformed landscape of rider demand and political support
as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. We explore people's motivations for returning to or …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of COVID-19 on public transit ridership

Y Qi, J Liu, T Tao, Q Zhao - International Journal of Transportation Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a national-wide study is conducted to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on
the public transit ridership in the top twenty metropolitan areas in the US At first, COVID-19 …

Will COVID-19 be the end for the public transit? Investigating the impacts of public health crisis on transit mode choice

SM Mashrur, K Wang, KN Habib - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on transit demand and usage. Stiff and vigilant
hygiene safety requirements changed travellers' mode choice preferences during the COVID …

Riders who avoided public transit during COVID-19: Personal burdens and implications for social equity

M Palm, J Allen, B Liu, Y Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings Millions of North Americans stopped riding public
transit in response to COVID-19. We treat this crisis as a natural experiment to illustrate the …