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Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility
The link between transport and land use in urban areas has always been characterized by a slow evolution process. COVID-19 brought, suddenly and unexpectedly, severe changes to the trip structure within urban areas, as several restrictions were combined with individual health fears. This study addre...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.006 |
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author | Lopes, Miguel Dias, Ana Mélice |
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description | The link between transport and land use in urban areas has always been characterized by a slow evolution process. COVID-19 brought, suddenly and unexpectedly, severe changes to the trip structure within urban areas, as several restrictions were combined with individual health fears. This study addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the territory of Porto Greater Urban Area, in Portugal, measured under a structural accessibility approach. This was evaluated through a simulation model, combining different destination restrictions in three alternative scenarios during the pandemic and post-COVID, as well as the definition of four different personas, with distinct risk aversion to infections and telecommuting patterns. The results, presented as the spatial configuration of different mobility environments, foster a critical reflection on their implication for future transportation and land use policies. This pandemic has shown that the territory behaves differently under a critical lockdown scenario, where active modes gain predominance to satisfy most travel needs, signalling a potential ability to enforce more sustainable mobility habits. Still, as the territorial configuration tends to the previous state of equilibrium as restrictions are lifted, particularly for non-telecommuters, the need for acting quickly is reinforced. While the growth of telecommuting can induce additional challenges to the management of urban mobility systems, most policy recommendations that were valid in the past will maintain its relevance, as non telecommuters will retain previous travel habits. |
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spelling | pubmed-89132832022-03-11 Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility Lopes, Miguel Dias, Ana Mélice Transp Res Part A Policy Pract Article The link between transport and land use in urban areas has always been characterized by a slow evolution process. COVID-19 brought, suddenly and unexpectedly, severe changes to the trip structure within urban areas, as several restrictions were combined with individual health fears. This study addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the territory of Porto Greater Urban Area, in Portugal, measured under a structural accessibility approach. This was evaluated through a simulation model, combining different destination restrictions in three alternative scenarios during the pandemic and post-COVID, as well as the definition of four different personas, with distinct risk aversion to infections and telecommuting patterns. The results, presented as the spatial configuration of different mobility environments, foster a critical reflection on their implication for future transportation and land use policies. This pandemic has shown that the territory behaves differently under a critical lockdown scenario, where active modes gain predominance to satisfy most travel needs, signalling a potential ability to enforce more sustainable mobility habits. Still, as the territorial configuration tends to the previous state of equilibrium as restrictions are lifted, particularly for non-telecommuters, the need for acting quickly is reinforced. While the growth of telecommuting can induce additional challenges to the management of urban mobility systems, most policy recommendations that were valid in the past will maintain its relevance, as non telecommuters will retain previous travel habits. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-04 2022-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8913283/ /pubmed/35291719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.006 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Lopes, Miguel Dias, Ana Mélice Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility |
title | Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility |
title_full | Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility |
title_fullStr | Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility |
title_full_unstemmed | Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility |
title_short | Changing perspectives in times of crisis. The impact of COVID-19 on territorial accessibility |
title_sort | changing perspectives in times of crisis. the impact of covid-19 on territorial accessibility |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.006 |
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