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

Understanding changing public transit travel patterns of urban visitors during COVID-19: A multi-stage study

“…The dampening effect of COVID-19 on public transit usage observed in this study is consistent with some existing studies Fathi-Kazerooni et al, 2020 , Mashrur et al, 2022 . However, these studies focused on quantifying the local impact of COVID-19 on public transit use and do not investigate the transit usage behavior from the perspective of visitors.…”

What can bring transit ridership back: An econometric study on the potential of usage incentives and operational policies in the Greater Toronto Area

“…The 2016 TTS is the regional household travel survey covering the study area of the SPETT’21. In addition, the average speed was informed from the traffic indices of Toronto and earlier studies ( Mashrur et al, 2022 , TomTom , University of Toronto ). Moreover, additional conditions were applied to the temporal attributes for realistic representations of the scenarios.…”

Systematic literature review on impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding measures on mobility

“… Marra et al ( 2022 ) Switzerland Comparative analysis, Mixed logit model Travel survey (GPS tracking) Public transit The travel distance for every mode of public transit in 2020 is around 50% less than 2019. Mashrur et al ( 2022 ) Canada Logit choice models SP survey Public transit Transit frequency dropped by 21–71% for various socioeconomic groups. Vaccine availability & mandatory face-covering onboard positively affect choices of riding transit.…”

“…The novel coronavirus outbreak , was first reported from Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019 (Gkiotsalitis and Cats, 2021;De Vos 2020). The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, because the highly contagious disease had rapidly spread, affecting people's lives worldwide (Mashrur et al 2022;Zhang et al 2020b;De Haas et al 2020;Hadjidemetriou et al 2020). The current crisis differs from previous epidemic trends (i.e., SARS or H1N1) in that it is global, difficult to contain, has a rapid spread rate, and a high death toll (Borkowski et al 2021).…”

“…Prior to COVID-19, factors such as travel time saving, safety, security, and comfort(Zubair et al 2022) and factors including distance and duration of travel(Mussone and Changizi 2023) were important influencing factors in the choice of modes, but during the pandemic, concerns about infection, social distancing, wearing a mask, and worry about using public transport became important influencing factors(Zubair et al 2022;Mussone and Changizi 2023). Studies also show that comfort and frequency of transit(Costa et al 2022), the availability of vaccines, and the obligation to wear a mask onboard(Mashrur et al 2022) affect the choice of public transit.Mancinelli et al (…”