Changes in Subway Ridership in Response to COVID-19 in Seoul, South Korea: Implications for Social Distancing

Park, Jewel

doi:10.7759/cureus.7668

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“…People reported more often that their birding behavior was affected by COVID-19. This was an expected result, because previous work showed a significant influence of the pandemic and governmental measures on human behavior [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 30 , 35 ]. It is interesting that people also reasoned why their birding behavior had not changed.…”

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“…Thus, it will influence the spatial area use of birders because of workplace closings, stay at home requirements, as well as international and domestic travel restrictions [ 2 , 33 ]. Many birders travel, sometimes also outside from their home country, to interesting birding sites, and to see rare bird species [ 14 , 15 , 22 , 36 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The pandemic has severe impacts on health and well-being, with a total of 11,470,637 global infection cases and 534,784 deaths in 188 countries on 6.7.2020 [ 1 ]. On the one hand, direct lethal outcomes have an impact on life, but on the other, governmental restrictions to keep the virus spreading under control also affected nearly all aspects of life and public health, e.g., daily traffic [ 2 ], or psychological and social aspects [ 3 , 4 ]. The importance of social and psychological factors for mental and physical well-being is well known, and one aspect is the effect of leisure activities on physical and mental health [ 5 ].…”

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SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) Pandemic Lockdown Influences Nature-Based Recreational Activity: The Case of Birders

Randler

Tryjanowski

Jokimäki

et al. 2020

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The new corona virus infection SARS-CoV2 which was later renamed COVID-19 is a pandemic affecting public health. The fear and the constraints imposed to control the pandemic may correspondingly influence leisure activities, such as birding, which is the practice of observing birds based on visual and acoustic cues. Birders are people who carry out birding observations around the globe and contribute to the massive data collection in citizen science projects. Contrasting to earlier COVID-19 studies, which have concentrated on clinical, pathological, and virological topics, this study focused on the behavioral changes of birders. A total of 4484 questionnaire survey responses from 97 countries were received. The questionnaire had an open-ended style. About 85% of respondents reported that COVID-19 has changed their birding behavior. The most significant change in birdwatchers’ behavior was related to the geographic coverage of birding activities, which became more local. People focused mostly on yard birding. In total, 12% of respondents (n = 542 cases) reported having more time for birding, whereas 8% (n = 356 cases) reported having less time for birding. Social interactions decreased since respondents, especially older people, changed their birding behavior toward birding alone or with their spouse. Women reported more often than men that they changed to birding alone or with their spouse, and women also reported more often about canceled fieldtrips or society meetings. Respondents from higher developed countries reported that they spend currently more time for birding, especially for birding alone or with their spouse, and birding at local hotspots. Our study suggests that long lockdowns with strict regulations may severely impact on leisure activities. In addition, a temporal and spatial shift in birding due to the pandemic may influence data quality in citizen science projects. As nature-based recreation will be directed more toward nearby sites, environmental management resources and actions need to be directed to sites that are located near the users, e.g., in urban and suburban areas. The results can be applied with caution to other nature-based recreational activities.

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SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) Pandemic Lockdown Influences Nature-Based Recreational Activity: The Case of Birders

Randler

Tryjanowski

Jokimäki

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…Moreover, COVID-19 impacts on transportation sector in Nigeria resulted in increased travel costs, as reported by about 95% of the people ( Mogaji, 2020 ). A recent study in Seoul, South Korea observed variations in the subway ridership due to the risk perceptions of COVID-19 ( Park, 2020 ). Compared to January 2020, the daily count of passengers reduced by 40% in the first week of March.…”

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“…Compared to January 2020, the daily count of passengers reduced by 40% in the first week of March. However, after that, the daily passenger count has increased slowly due to decreasing risk perceptions and provision of physical distancing ( Park, 2020 ). In the USA, transit agencies are incurring financial loss owing to the drastic reduction in transit users across the country ( Badger, 2020 ).…”

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Impact of physical distancing due to novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) on daily travel for work during transition to lockdown

Pawar

Yadav

Akolekar

et al. 2020

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in change in both commute and personal travel patterns. Though, in India, lockdown was implemented from 25th March 2020, due to self-awareness and pandemic risk perception, change in commuter behavior was observed from the beginning of March 2020. The period from 15th to 24th March 2020 is considered as the transition phase of COVID-19 outbreak in India (i.e., between no lockdown and lockdown period). This study attempts to use a decision tree approach to investigate the modal preference of 1542 commuters in association with socio-economic and travel characteristics, and safety perceptions with respect to public and private modes during transition to lockdown due to COVID-19 in India. About 41% of commuters stopped traveling during the transition to lockdown phase, 51.3% were using the same mode of transport and 5.3% of commuters shifted from public to private mode. The study findings reported different interactions of factors influencing the decision to use public or private modes of transport for daily commuting during pandemic situations like COVID-19. Interestingly, safety perceptions (associated with personal health) of commuters did not play a significant role in their mode choice behavior during the transition phase. Though people perceived public transportation as unsafe over personal vehicle use, the actual commute patterns did not validate this due to a possible reason that commuters do not have enough alternative modes. Given the uncertainties in the decision making of the commuters regarding their travel behavior due to physical distancing, the insights from this study are important to policymakers and local transport authorities to understand the change in travel patterns.

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Smart Governance and COVID-19 Control in Wuhan, China

Jiang

Witte

Geertman

2021

The Urban Book Series

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In dealing with the global COVID-19 pandemic, China has achieved reasonable success in governing COVID-19 within two months with the help of technologies. This study specifically focuses on how these massive technologies have been implemented to facilitate the smart governance of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. By discursively analyzing existing data from multiple sources, the results obtained in this chapter show that the real 'smartness' of the smart governance of COVID-19 in Wuhan is the innovative use of technologies to develop different types of governance approaches to control COVID-19 in an effective and targeted way. As the pandemic continues to evolve worldwide, lessons learned from Wuhan, China can be beneficial to other countries in different institutional contexts to build their own, context-specific governance for controlling the pandemic.

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Changes in Subway Ridership in Response to COVID-19 in Seoul, South Korea: Implications for Social Distancing

Cited by 56 publications

References 10 publications

SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) Pandemic Lockdown Influences Nature-Based Recreational Activity: The Case of Birders

SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) Pandemic Lockdown Influences Nature-Based Recreational Activity: The Case of Birders

Impact of physical distancing due to novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) on daily travel for work during transition to lockdown

Smart Governance and COVID-19 Control in Wuhan, China

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