Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Post-Pandemic Era (position paper)

2021/09/27 by Christos Theodoridis, Theodoridis, Christos, Yannis Theodoridis +1
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis #Urban Transport and Accessibility

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.12982

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Abstract

COVID-19 is the first pandemic of the modern world causing significant changes to the everyday life of billions of people in all continents. To reduce its expansion, most governments decided to mitigate a great percentage of daily movements of their citizens. For instance, they enforced strict controls (in space, time, etc.) on urban movement whereas they selectively prohibited international air and ground connections. In this short study, we briefly discuss some lessons learned out of this process based on recorded mobility figures, and we raise challenges that are emerging in the post-pandemic era, in the intersection of the sustainable urban mobility and movement data science fields.

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