Challenges for urban transport policy after the Covid-19 pandemic: Main findings from a survey in 20 European cities

Christidis, Panayotis; Cawood, Elena Navajas; Fiorello, Davide

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.10.007

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“…This was highlighted during the pandemic when interactions with people outside the household were limited. Driving, which is often associated with greater independence in mobility [ 43 ], also provided a safer travel option during the pandemic than public transport, which instilled fear due to the potential risk of virus exposure [ 44 ]. The benefits of having good lower extremity performance and driving a car were more apparent in life-space mobility, which measures actual mobility.…”

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Longitudinal changes in life-space mobility and autonomy in participation outdoors among Finnish community-dwelling older adults from pre-COVID-19 to through the pandemic

Lindeman,

Karavirta,

Koivunen

et al. 2024

Aging Clin Exp Res

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Background Among older people, community mobility was reduced at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the longer-term changes are unclear. Aims To study lower extremity performance and car driving as predictors of changes in older adults’ life-space mobility, autonomy in participation outdoors, and the risk of developing restricted life-space mobility from 2017 to 2022. Methods Life-space mobility (scoring range 0-120) and autonomy in participation outdoors (scoring range 0–20) were assessed in community-dwelling individuals (n = 657) in 2017–2018 (baseline age 75, 80, or 85 years), during the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020, and in 2021–2022. Lower extremity performance was assessed using the Short Physical Performance Battery, and car driving was self-reported at baseline. Data were analysed using generalized estimating equations and Cox regression. Results During the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020, life-space mobility decreased on average by 10.3 (SD 21.6) points and partially recovered in 2021–2022 (+ 2.7, SD 21.8). The same pattern was observed for autonomy in participation outdoors. Non-drivers and those with impaired lower extremity performance had a 2.4-to-3.6-fold adjusted risk of developing restricted life-space mobility over the follow-up period compared to drivers with intact lower extremity performance. Conclusions For older people, the recovery of community mobility was incomplete after the restrictions stemming from the pandemic were lifted. Older adults with impaired lower extremity performance and who did not drive were particularly vulnerable to developing restricted life-space mobility, a situation that could lead to social isolation and reduced well-being.

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Longitudinal changes in life-space mobility and autonomy in participation outdoors among Finnish community-dwelling older adults from pre-COVID-19 to through the pandemic

Lindeman,

Karavirta,

Koivunen

et al. 2024

Aging Clin Exp Res

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“…This switch toward comparatively more expensive and faster modes of transport (preference change) likely explains the detected increase in the expenditure-price elasticity (only in 2020). This result is nonetheless surprising, as the related literature points to people preferring traveling by private car over public transportation modes during COVID-19 (Christidis et al, 2022;Eisenmann et al, 2021). Most likely, this finding is driven by a selection mechanism: in the summer of 2020 those who continue traveling are mainly those for whom traveling is a ''priority'' good (Boto-Garcı´a & Ban˜os-Pino, 2023).…”

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Preference Shifts During Health Shocks: Foreign Tourists’ Expenditure–Price Elasticity Throughout the Pandemic

Boto‐García

Baños-Pino

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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This study evaluates the changes in the expenditure–price elasticities of foreign tourists in the summer periods of 2019, 2020, and 2021. We first develop a theoretical characterization that combines microeconomic, loss aversion, price inequality and precautionary savings theories. Next, exploiting microdata for more than 34,000 foreign tourists visiting Spain, we estimate OLS and quantile regressions to empirically examine the expenditure elasticities with respect to the prices of transport services, leisure activities and bars and restaurants at the destination (17 regions). We find that (i) the expenditure–price elasticity of transportation (leisure activities) increases (decreases) during the pandemic, whereas that of bars and restaurants remains unchanged, (ii) foreign tourists are comparatively less expenditure–price elastic at high expenditure levels in transportation and bars and restaurants, and (iii) expenditure–price elasticities are highly heterogeneous depending on the origin country. Managerial and theoretical implications of the findings for firms’ pricing strategies are discussed.

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“…Since the focus of the survey was urban transport, the fieldwork was conducted in 20 urban areas within the EU, ensuring representative samples that cover a wide variety of city profiles. The published article linked to this dataset [1] describes the main findings and explore the kay factors that explain changes in mobility. The full dataset of the survey is made available for replication purposes and as a source of data for further research.…”

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“…The dataset is used in [1] and can be freely used for replication or further research. The supplementary material accompanying this article include: the English version of the full questionnaire used in the survey, as a text document (“Full questionnaire.docx”) the full dataset of responses to all questions, as a table with 10000 rows and 284 columns (“raw_data.csv”) The table of correspondence between questions, variables in dataset, and answer options (data dictionary as 2 Excel tables, “data_specifications.xlsx”) …”

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Survey on urban transport in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak: Data from 20 cities across Europe

Navajas-Cawood¹,

Fiorello

Martinez³

et al. 2023

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Challenges for urban transport policy after the Covid-19 pandemic: Main findings from a survey in 20 European cities

Cited by 35 publications

References 24 publications

Longitudinal changes in life-space mobility and autonomy in participation outdoors among Finnish community-dwelling older adults from pre-COVID-19 to through the pandemic

Longitudinal changes in life-space mobility and autonomy in participation outdoors among Finnish community-dwelling older adults from pre-COVID-19 to through the pandemic

Preference Shifts During Health Shocks: Foreign Tourists’ Expenditure–Price Elasticity Throughout the Pandemic

Survey on urban transport in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak: Data from 20 cities across Europe

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