Citation

Böcker L, Olsson LE, Priya Uteng T, Friman M. Transp. Res. D Trans. Environ. 2023; 114: e103562.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.trd.2022.103562

PMID

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Abstract

COVID-19 has brought severe disruption and demand suppression to mobility, especially to public transport (PT). A key challenge now is to restore trust that PT is safe again. This paper investigates pandemic impacts on PT safety and stress perceptions in three Nordic cities, drawing on 2018 and 2020 survey data analysed in structural equation models. While finding modest pandemic effects on safety and stress perceptions overall, strong heterogeneities exist across gender, age and geographic categories. Women perceive less PT safety and more stress, especially during the pandemic. Older adults reduced PT more during the pandemicandperceived no stress reduction like younger adults. Stockholm travellers feel less safe and more stressed than in Oslo and Bergen, whilstpandemic PTuseandperceived safety reductions are least inBergen. The paper discusses thelong-term implicationsfor theory and policy across multiple mobility scenarios accounting for modal change and travel demand uncertainties.

Language: en

Keywords

COVID-19; Mobility Scenarios; Pandemic; Perceived safety; Public Transport; Stress