TY - JOUR
T1 - Public transport planning adaption under the COVID-19 pandemic crisis
T2 - literature review of research needs and directions
AU - Gkiotsalitis, Konstantinos
AU - Cats, Oded
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has greatly impacted public transport ridership and service provision across the world. As many countries start to navigate their return to normality, new public transport planning requirements are devised. These measures imply a major reduction in service capacity compared to the pre-COVID-19 era. At the time of writing, there is a severe lack of knowledge regarding the potential impact of the pandemic on public transport operations and models that can support the service planning given these new challenges. In this literature review, we systematically review and synthesise the literature on the impacts of COVID on public transport to identify the need to adjust planning measures, and, on the other hand, the existing methods for public transport planning at the strategic, tactical and operational level. We identify intervention measures that can support public transport service providers in planning their services in the post-shutdown phase and their respective modelling development requirements. This can support the transition from the initial ad-hoc planning practices to a more evidence-based decision making.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has greatly impacted public transport ridership and service provision across the world. As many countries start to navigate their return to normality, new public transport planning requirements are devised. These measures imply a major reduction in service capacity compared to the pre-COVID-19 era. At the time of writing, there is a severe lack of knowledge regarding the potential impact of the pandemic on public transport operations and models that can support the service planning given these new challenges. In this literature review, we systematically review and synthesise the literature on the impacts of COVID on public transport to identify the need to adjust planning measures, and, on the other hand, the existing methods for public transport planning at the strategic, tactical and operational level. We identify intervention measures that can support public transport service providers in planning their services in the post-shutdown phase and their respective modelling development requirements. This can support the transition from the initial ad-hoc planning practices to a more evidence-based decision making.
KW - capacity management
KW - COVID-19
KW - public transport planning
KW - ridership
KW - social distancing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097434790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01441647.2020.1857886
DO - 10.1080/01441647.2020.1857886
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85097434790
VL - 41 (2021)
SP - 374
EP - 392
JO - Transport Reviews: a transnational, transdisciplinary journal
JF - Transport Reviews: a transnational, transdisciplinary journal
SN - 0144-1647
IS - 3
ER -