Examining US Transit Vehicle Passenger Loads During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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• Creators:
  Dai, Tianxing ; Taylor, Brian D.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Transportation Studies ; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  State of California
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  COVID-19 Loads Passenger Loads Passengers Public Transit Ridership Social Distancing
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UC-ITS-2021-12
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.17610/T68P5B
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report (July 2020 – December 2021)
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Transportation Studies
• Abstract:
  Transit ridership plummeted at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what constituted passenger crowding contracted dramatically as well. We examine trends in average passenger loads and their correlates in a national sample of U.S. transit operators during the first year of the pandemic and find that passenger loads in high-transit-ridership areas and on the largest systems fell the most early on. Passenger loads were actually somewhat more likely to increase in places where COVID-19 rates were higher during the first year of the pandemic, which suggests that pandemic transit riders had fewer options to travel by other means.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  UC-ITS-2021-12
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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