Padmanabhan Vyas, Penmetsa Praveena, Li Xiaobing, Dhondia Fatema, Dhondia Sakina, Parrish Allen
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States.
Alabama Transportation Institute, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States.
Transp Res Interdiscip Perspect. 2021 Mar;9:100282. doi: 10.1016/j.trip.2020.100282. Epub 2020 Dec 15.
Coronavirus has had a large-scale impact on transportation. This study attempts to assess the effects of COVID-19 on biking. Bikeshare data was used to understand the impacts of COVID-19 during the initial wave of the disease on biking in New York City, Boston, and Chicago. As the cases increased, these cities experienced a reduction in bikeshare trips, and the reductions were different in the three cities. Correlations were developed between COVID-19 cases and various bikeshare related variables. The study period was split into three phases-no COVID-19 phase, cases increasing phase, and cases decreasing phase-to examine how the residents of the three cities reacted during the different phases of the coronavirus spread. While bike trips decreased, the average duration of the trips increased during the pandemic. NYC's average trip duration was consistently less than that of Boston and Chicago, which could be due to its sprawl (NYC is considered as more compact and connected compared to the other two cities).
冠状病毒对交通运输产生了大规模影响。本研究试图评估新冠疫情对骑行的影响。共享单车数据被用于了解新冠疫情第一波期间在纽约市、波士顿和芝加哥对骑行的影响。随着病例增加，这些城市的共享单车出行量减少，且三个城市的减少情况有所不同。研究建立了新冠病例与各种共享单车相关变量之间的关联。研究期分为三个阶段——无新冠阶段、病例增加阶段和病例减少阶段——以考察这三个城市的居民在新冠病毒传播的不同阶段的反应。虽然骑行次数减少，但在疫情期间骑行的平均时长增加了。纽约市的平均骑行时长一直低于波士顿和芝加哥，这可能是由于其城市扩张（与其他两个城市相比，纽约市被认为更紧凑且连接性更好）。
