Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Traffic Congestion in Latin American Cities: An Updated Five-Month Study
| Autor: | Jesús Ortego, Rodrigo Ramírez-Pisco, Renato Andara, Luis Manuel Navas, Carmen Vásquez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050210 logistics & transportation
education.field_of_study Latin Americans Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Social distance 05 social sciences Population 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Metropolitan area Geography Traffic congestion Recovery rate 0502 economics and business Pandemic education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Demography |
| Zdroj: | Smart Cities ISBN: 9783030691356 |
| Popis: | This study analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on traffic congestion in 15 metropolitan areas of 13 Latin American countries. The database of the Traffic Congestion Intensity (TCI) of the IDB Invest Dashboard is used, it was developed from the alliance between the IDB and Waze and it is correlated with the contagions of the population published by Johns Hopkins Hospital University, for the period from March 9 to July 31, 2020, approximately five (5) months. For the analysis, the areas have been categorized into four (4) clusters, based on the Coefficient of Variation and the TCI/ WHO ratio. For each cluster, the graphs of the variation of the ΔTCI, the contagion cases, and the mobility recovery rate are analyzed. Among the conclusions include that the decrease in the number of infections and the flexibility of social distancing measures can be related to a recovery from congestion and that this can be measured as a function to the rate of recovery of mobility. In addition, the pandemic has revealed less collective and more agile forms of mobility, being this an important opportunity for the region to develop new forms of transport. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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