Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation (LiTrans), Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PLoS One. 2022 Oct 14;17(10):e0275714. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275714. eCollection 2022.
To curb the spread of the ongoing 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), authorities have adopted several non-pharmaceutical (NPIs) and pharmaceutical interventions, which significantly affected our daily activities and mobility patterns. However, it is still unclear how severity of NPIs, COVID-19-related variables, and vaccination rates have affected demand for ridesourcing services, and whether these effects vary across small towns and large cities. We analyzed over 220 million ride requests in the City of Chicago (population: 2.7 million), Illinois, and 52 thousand in the Town of Innisfil (population: 37 thousand), Ontario, to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ridesourcing demand in the two locations. Overall, the pandemic resulted in fewer trips in areas with higher proportions of seniors and more trips to parks and green spaces. Ridesourcing demand was adversely affected by the stringency index and COVID-19-related variables, and positively affected by vaccination rates. However, compared to Innisfil, ridesourcing services in Chicago experienced higher reductions in demand, were more affected by the number of hospitalizations and deaths, were less impacted by vaccination rates, and had lower recovery rates.
为了遏制正在发生的 2019 年新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）的传播，当局采取了几项非药物（NPIs）和药物干预措施，这些措施极大地影响了我们的日常活动和出行模式。然而，目前仍不清楚 NPIs 的严重程度、与 COVID-19 相关的变量以及疫苗接种率如何影响网约车服务的需求，以及这些影响是否因小镇和大城市而异。我们分析了伊利诺伊州芝加哥市（人口：270 万）超过 2.2 亿次乘车请求和安大略省因尼斯菲尔镇（人口：3.7 万）的 5200 次乘车请求，以调查 COVID-19 大流行对这两个地区网约车需求的影响。总体而言，疫情导致老年人比例较高的地区出行次数减少，而前往公园和绿地的出行次数增加。网约车需求受到严格指数和与 COVID-19 相关的变量的负面影响，而受到疫苗接种率的积极影响。然而，与因尼斯菲尔相比，芝加哥的网约车服务需求降幅更大，受住院和死亡人数的影响更大，受疫苗接种率的影响较小，恢复速度也较慢。
