Vickerman Roger
School of Economics, University of Kent, CT2 7FS, UK and Transport Strategy Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Transp Policy (Oxf). 2021 Mar;103:95-102. doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.01.005. Epub 2021 Feb 3.
Covid-19 has had a major impact on public transport systems across the world. Public financial support has been needed to maintain services in the face of drastically reduced ridership and adjustment to the need for social distancing. This paper explores the challenge this poses to current methods of delivery of public transport services and argues that a simple return to the status quo is unlikely as public transport adjusts to a new normal of more home working and fear of crowded spaces. In turn this impacts most on the transport disadvantaged. The paper argues that this may spell the end of the prevailing model of a deregulated competitive public transport that has prevailed in the United Kingdom and require a major rethinking of the way to provide an efficient and effective transport system. Such a rethink will depend on understanding the interplay of private and social norms and building public trust.
新冠疫情对全球公共交通系统产生了重大影响。面对客流量大幅下降以及为适应社交距离要求而进行的调整，需要公共财政支持来维持服务。本文探讨了这给当前公共交通服务提供方式带来的挑战，并认为随着公共交通适应更多居家办公和对拥挤空间的恐惧这一新常态，简单地恢复到以前的状态不太可能。这反过来对交通弱势群体影响最大。本文认为，这可能意味着英国盛行的放松管制的竞争性公共交通主导模式的终结，并需要对提供高效且有效的交通系统的方式进行重大反思。这样的反思将取决于理解私人规范和社会规范的相互作用以及建立公众信任。
