Impact of COVID-19 on transport and spatial development: an international perspective
Joint Workshop of WCTR SIG F1 & AUM
The new corona virus pandemic has frozen human activities and urges to rethink urban systems. In most countries, the pandemic is not under control yet. It remains uncertain how long it will take to overcome the restrictions, and how life after the pandemic might differ from life before the pandemic. Given these uncertainties, we will hold a free workshop to stimulate the discussion and research on the interaction of transport and spatial development during and after the pandemic. The workshop is jointly organized by the special interest group SIG F1 of WCTR and AUM. The webinar will take place in two parts on February 25th and March 11th, 2021.
Registration
Registration is free of charge. You may register here. A zoom link to attend both webinars will be provided by email to all registered participants.
We also provide a discussion board on Facebook. The registered e-mail addresses are uploaded for pre-approval. If you want to use another e-mail for the facebook account, please send member request in the facebook or send e-mail to the following contacts: Masanobu Kii (kii.masanobu(at)kagawa-u.ac.jp) or Rolf Moeckel (rolf.moeckel(at)tum.de).
Discussions related to the content of the presentations can be conducted here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wctrsigf1ws2021/
Program
A video recording of the webinars is available on the YouTube channel of WCTR:
25 February 2021 (Chaired by Dr. Rolf Moeckel, Technical Univ. of Munich)
Key Note Address
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | Mike Batty | University College London | The Socially-Distanced City |
Travel Behavior Research and COVID-19
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:15 | Giovanni Circella | University of California, Davis | Studying the temporary vs. longer-term impacts of the pandemic on mobility |
| 15:25 | Chandrima Mukhopadhyay & Saumya Lathia | Ahmedabad University, India | Impact of Covid-19 on urban transport in Indian cities |
| 15:35 | M. Shafiq-Ur Rahman | Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh | Impacts of COVID-19 on Mobility of Elderly and Disabled People |
| 15:45 | Ana Luísa Silva | ONG Lalana | Covid-19 impacts on the peri-urban mobility of women and vulnerable households in Madagascar |
Land Use Implications of COVID-19
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:55 | Joris Beckers | Universiteit Antwerpen | The local shop and last mile specialist as the winner of COVID-19? |
Transit and COVID-19
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:15 | Thomas Koch & Elenna Dugundji | CWI - National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science | Determining the Effect of Lower Public Transit Frequencies in COVID‑19 Timetables on Perceived Door‑to‑door Travel Times |
| 16:25 | Rounaq Basu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Using new mobilities for post-COVID transit recovery strategies |
| 16:35 | Haixiao Pan | Tongji University | Rail transit passengers before and after the epidemic. A case study in Shanghai |
| 16:45 | Mattia Borsati | Bocconi University | Questioning the spatial association between the spread of COVID-19 and transit usage in Italy |
| 16:55 | Rolf Moeckel | Technical University of Munich | Final remarks |
| 17:00 | Adjourn |
Time in Central European Time. Other start times are 06:00 (Los Angeles), 9:00 (New York), 14:00 (London), 15:00 (Munich), 22:00 (Beijing), 23:00 (Tokyo), 1:00 (Sydney)
11 March 2021 (Chaired by Dr. Ying Jin, Univ. of Cambridge)
Key Note Address
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | Robert Noland | Rutgers University | Street Space Allocation and Active Travel: Will COVID-19 change anything? |
Telework
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:15 | Graham Currie | Monash University | Long term/post-pandemic impacts of COVID-19 on commuting in Melbourne, Australia |
| 15:25 | Taru Jain | Monash University | COVID-19 and Working from Home: Long-term Impacts and Psycho-social Determinants |
| 15:35 | Anna Reiffer | Institute for Transport Studies - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Analyzing the effects of new forms of work on travel demand |
| 15:45 | Jago Dodson & Tiebei Li | RMIT University | Commuting patterns in Melbourne: Assessing short-run and longer term COVID impacts |
Micromobility
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:55 | Tim Jones | Oxford Brookes University | Investigating English local authority response to the UK government’s Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) |
| 16:05 | Haitao He | Loughborough University | How did micromobility change in response to COVID-19 |
Policy Implications
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:15 | John Omwamba | UN-Habitat | Impact and Resilience of Transport to Covid-19 Through Policy and Governance in Selected African Countries |
| 16:25 | Beatriz Mella Lira | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | Transitions to mobility during deconfinement. Co-production of mobility and urban development strategies during the sanitary crisis |
| 16:35 | Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison | De Montfort University, Leicester, UK | Responsible Transport for Urban Mobility in a post-COVID world |
| 16:45 | Anson Gock | Delaware Department of Transportation | Exploring the Relationship between COVID-19 and Crash Patterns |
| 16:55 | John Douglas Hunt | University of Calgary | Using the PECAS Model of Alberta to Anticipate and Respond to the Spatial Economic and Transport Impacts of COVID-19 |
| 17:05 | Ying Jin | University of Cambridge | Final remarks |
| 17:10 | Adjourn |
Time in Central European Time. Other start times are 06:00 (Los Angeles), 9:00 (New York), 14:00 (London), 15:00 (Munich), 22:00 (Beijing), 23:00 (Tokyo), 1:00 (Sydney)