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TRANSPORT POLICY
卷 141, 期 -, 页码 83-96出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2023.07.018
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Transit market segmentation; Transportation demand management; Transit crowding; Transport behavior; COVID-19; Transit safety
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected transit ridership globally, including in Metro Vancouver, Canada. TransLink, the regional transit agency, faced the challenge of addressing revenue loss and ensuring the safety and comfort of riders in the face of crowding. This study aims to understand the factors influencing riders' decision to board a bus and their level of comfort, in order to guide policy interventions that promote convenient, comfortable, and safe transit usage.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on transit ridership around the world, including in Metro Vancouver, Canada. The regional transit agency there, TransLink, faced the challenge of not only tackling the sudden revenue loss but also ensuring the safety and comfort of its riders that could be affected by crowding. As the tide of restrictions subsided, and riders are gradually coming back to public transport, their feelings of safety and comfort must be ensured so that they do not deflect to other modes. To guide TransLink and agencies alike in this process, this study aimed to understand the factors that affected the decision to board a bus and level of comfort of riding it for different behavioral classes of transit riders before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It employed a classification of transit riders based on their attitudes towards personal safety and flexibility both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigated the effect of crowding on their decision to board and the comfort of boarding a bus at various crowding levels. The findings of this study are expected to guide the development of relevant policy interventions that can engage diverse groups of riders to continue using transit in a way that is convenient, comfortable, and safe for them.
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