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Impact OF COVID-19 on Ridehailing and Other Modes of Transportation
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2022-08-03
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Edition:Final January 2021 - July 2022
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Abstract:During the COVID pandemic, a large drop in travel was observed all around the world due to stay-in-place and quarantine orders. Because travelers were concerned about sharing space with others, public transit and ridesharing travel was affected significantly during the pandemic. Bikeshare, a travel mode in open space that can easily maintain the needed social distancing, may become a mode of choice under these special circumstances. In this report, the authors used the bikeshare data from the City of Chicago in 2019 and 2020 to study the variation in bike trip frequencies, trip lengths, spatial distribution prior to and during the pandemic, and the potential interaction of bikeshare travels and public transit during the pandemic. The conclusions show that during the pandemic, bikeshare trips rebounded more quickly than other travel modes. The bikeshare trips also increased in length, especially for subscribers, and most trips occurred during peak hours. Spatial analysis showed that travelers used bikeshare more extensively across the city compared to trip patterns prior to the pandemic. About 35% of bikeshare stations that were heavily used were found to be isolated from transit bus stations. About 10% of them were co-located with commuter rail stations. To investigate the intercorrelation of bikeshare with other non-mobile modes, bikeshare data in Chicago on weather-friendly days in 2019 and 2020 were analyzed to investigate the variation in bikeshare travel before and during the pandemic. The results show that bikeshare trips during the pandemic were much longer than those prior to the pandemic. The increased rate of bikeshare usage was unbalanced spatially and varied significantly for different user types. Bikeshare was used significantly more by casual users than by subscribers, and the increase occurred much more in the outskirts of the city. The increase in bikeshare travel was associated with a reduction in travel by ridehailing and public transit, especially in the urban periphery. The correlation of bikeshare use with the bus system was much less significant than with the rail system. Bike lanes/facilities had a mixed effect on bikeshare travel. Weekend bike trips increased in areas where there was no bike lane. Weekday trips, on the contrary, increased in the vicinity of bike greenways.
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