Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
129, P. 104147 - 104147
Published: March 6, 2024
This
study
investigates
the
understudied
relationship
between
post-/pandemic
mobility
adaptations
and
wellbeing
outcomes,
drawing
on
a
longitudinal
mixed-method
approach
combining
survey
analyses
in-depth
citizen
interviews
conducted
2019
2022
in
Oslo,
Norway.
Qualitative
explore
depth
diversity
of
pandemic
implications
for
hedonic
eudaimonic
wellbeing.
Factor
structural
equation
models
confirm
statistical
evidence
three
coping
strategies
–
working
from
home,
avoiding
spaces
infection,
(enjoyment
of)
local
environment
with
respectively
neutral,
negative
positive
impacts
satisfaction
life.
The
post-pandemic
ability
to
be
more
mobile
attend
diverse
activities
again
is
by
many
perceived
as
positive,
but
people
struggle
maintain
cherished
aspects
slower-paced,
localised
lifestyles
adopted
during
pandemic.
We
discuss
significance
our
findings
inclusive
resilience,
reflect
lessons
relevant
addressing
another
crisis
climate
change.
Transportation,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
51(2), P. 615 - 643
Published: Oct. 28, 2022
Abstract
While
the
COVID-19
pandemic
upended
many
aspects
of
life
as
we
knew
it,
its
effects
on
U.S.
public
transit
were
especially
dramatic.
Many
former
commuters
began
to
work
from
home
or
switched
traveling
via
private
vehicles.
But
for
those
who
continued
outside
and
could
not
drive—who
more
likely
low-income
Black
Hispanic—transit
remained
an
important
means
mobility.
However,
most
agencies
reduced
service
during
first
year
pandemic,
reflecting
ridership
demand,
increasing
costs,
uncertain
budgets.
To
analyze
systems
their
users,
examine
bus
changes
by
neighborhood
in
Boston,
Houston,
Los
Angeles
2019
2020.
Combining
aggregated
stop-level
boarding
data,
passenger
surveys,
census
identify
associations
between
shifting
travel
patterns
neighborhoods.
We
find
that
early
neighborhoods
with
poor
non-white
households
lost
proportionally
fewer
riders;
however,
this
gap
high-
low-ridership-loss
shrank
wore
on.
also
model
change
controlling
multiple
factors.
Ridership
Houston
LA
generally
outperformed
built
environment
demographic
factors
accounting
some
observed
differences.
Neighborhoods
high
shares
Hispanic
African
American
residents
retained
riders
while
higher
levels
auto
access
workers
able
riders,
all
else
equal.
conclude
transit’s
social
role
elevated
serving
travelers
disadvantaged
will
remain
paramount
emerging
it.
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
129, P. 104147 - 104147
Published: March 6, 2024
This
study
investigates
the
understudied
relationship
between
post-/pandemic
mobility
adaptations
and
wellbeing
outcomes,
drawing
on
a
longitudinal
mixed-method
approach
combining
survey
analyses
in-depth
citizen
interviews
conducted
2019
2022
in
Oslo,
Norway.
Qualitative
explore
depth
diversity
of
pandemic
implications
for
hedonic
eudaimonic
wellbeing.
Factor
structural
equation
models
confirm
statistical
evidence
three
coping
strategies
–
working
from
home,
avoiding
spaces
infection,
(enjoyment
of)
local
environment
with
respectively
neutral,
negative
positive
impacts
satisfaction
life.
The
post-pandemic
ability
to
be
more
mobile
attend
diverse
activities
again
is
by
many
perceived
as
positive,
but
people
struggle
maintain
cherished
aspects
slower-paced,
localised
lifestyles
adopted
during
pandemic.
We
discuss
significance
our
findings
inclusive
resilience,
reflect
lessons
relevant
addressing
another
crisis
climate
change.
