Mobility in pandemic times: Exploring changes and long-term effects of COVID-19 on urban mobility behavior
| dc.contributor.author | Kellermann, Robin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sivizaca Conde, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rößler, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kliewer, Natalia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dienel, Hans-Liudger | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-26T11:04:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-26T11:04:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-08-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic marked a global disruption of unprecedented scale which was closely associated with human mobility. Since mobility acts as a facilitator for spreading the virus, individuals were forced to reconsider their respective behaviors. Despite numerous studies having detected behavioral changes during the first lockdown period (spring 2020), there is a lack of longitudinal perspectives that can provide insights into the intra-pandemic dynamics and potential long-term effects. This article investigates COVID-19-induced mobility-behavioral transformations by analyzing travel patterns of Berlin residents during a 20-month pandemic period and comparing them to the pre-pandemic situation. Based on quantitative analysis of almost 800,000 recorded trips, our longitudinal examination revealed individuals having reduced average monthly travel distances by ∼20%, trip frequencies by ∼11%, and having switched to individual modes. Public transportation has suffered a continual regression, with trip frequencies experiencing a relative long-term reduction of ∼50%, and a respective decrease of traveled distances by ∼43%. In contrast, the bicycle (rather than the car) was the central beneficiary, indicated by bicycle-related trip frequencies experiencing a relative long-term increase of ∼53%, and travel distances increasing by ∼117%. Comparing behavioral responses to three pandemic waves, our analysis revealed each wave to have created unique response patterns, which show a gradual softening of individuals’ mobility related self-restrictions. Our findings contribute to retracing and quantifying individuals’ changing mobility behaviors induced by the pandemic, and to detecting possible long-term effects that may constitute a “new normal” of an entirely altered urban mobility landscape. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | DFG, 414044773, Open Access Publizieren 2021 - 2022 / Technische Universität Berlin | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2590-1982 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/18074 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16867 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.ddc | 304 Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren | de |
| dc.subject.other | COVID-19 | en |
| dc.subject.other | Travel behavior | en |
| dc.subject.other | Mode choice | en |
| dc.subject.other | Travel patterns | en |
| dc.subject.other | Quantitative analysis | en |
| dc.subject.other | Longitudinal analysis | en |
| dc.title | Mobility in pandemic times: Exploring changes and long-term effects of COVID-19 on urban mobility behavior | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber | 100668 | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi | 10.1016/j.trip.2022.100668 | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle | Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername | Elsevier | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace | Amsterdam | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume | 15 | |
| dcterms.rightsHolder.reference | Creative-Commons-Lizenz | |
| tub.accessrights.dnb | free | |
| tub.affiliation | Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Inst. Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre::FG Arbeitslehre / Technik und Partizipation | |
| tub.publisher.universityorinstitution | Technische Universität Berlin |