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Impacts of COVID-19 on public transport ridership in Sweden: Analysis of ticket
validations, sales and passenger counts
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Jenelius E
; Cebecauer M
Transp Res Interdiscip Perspect
2020[Nov]; 8
(?): 100242
PMID34173478
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The paper analyses the impacts of COVID-19 on daily public transport ridership in
the three most populated regions of Sweden (Stockholm, Västra Götaland and Skåne)
during spring 2020. The analysis breaks down the overall ridership with respect
to ticket types, youths and seniors, and transport modes based on ticket
validations, sales and passenger counts data. By utilizing disaggregate ticket
validation data with consistent card ids we further investigate to what extent
fewer people travelled, or each person travelled less, during the pandemic. The
decrease in public transport ridership (40%-60% across regions) was severe
compared with other transport modes. Ridership was not restricted by service
levels as supply generally remained unchanged throughout the period. The
ridership reduction stems primarily from a lower number of active public
transport travellers. Travellers switched from monthly period tickets to single
tickets and travel funds, while the use and the sales of short period tickets,
used predominantly by tourists, dropped to almost zero. One-year period tickets
and school tickets increased from mid-April, which could indicate that the
travellers using these tickets are particularly captive to the public transport
system. Collaborative effort is required to put the results in the international
context.
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