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Estimation of trip purposes in public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Santiago, Chile

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dc.contributor.authorPezoa, Raúl
dc.contributor.authorBasso, Franco
dc.contributor.authorQuilodrán, Paulina
dc.contributor.authorVaras, Mauricio
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-17T19:33:48Z
dc.date.available2024-04-17T19:33:48Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic strongly affected the mobility of people. Several studies have quantified these changes, for example, measuring the effectiveness of quarantine measures and calculating the decrease in the use of public transport. Regarding the latter, however, a low level of understanding persists as to how the pandemic affected the distribution of trip purposes, hindering the design of policies aimed at increasing the demand for public transport in a post-pandemic era. To address this gap, in this article, we study how the purposes of trips made by public transport evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Santiago, Chile. For this, we develop an XGBoost model using the latest available origin-destination survey as input. The calibrated model is applied to the information from smart payment cards during one week in 2018, 2020, and 2021. The results show that during the week of maximum restriction, that is, during 2020, the distribution of trips by purpose varied considerably, with the proportion of trips to work increasing, recreational trips decreasing, and trips for health purposes remaining unchanged. In sociodemographic terms, in the higher-income communes, the decrease in the proportion of trips for work purposes was much greater than that in the communes with lower income. Finally, with the gradual return to in-person activities in 2021, the distribution of trip purposes returned to values similar to those before the pandemic, although with a lower total amount, which suggests that unless relevant measures are taken, the low use of public transportation could be permanent.
dc.description.sponsorshipAgenția Națională pentru Cercetare și Dezvoltare, ANCD; Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, FONDECYT
dc.description.versionVersión publicada
dc.format.extent19 p.
dc.identifier.citationPezoa, R., Basso, F., Quilodrán, P., & Varas, M. (2023). Estimation of trip purposes in public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Santiago, Chile. Journal of Transport Geography, 109, Artículo 103594
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103594
dc.identifier.issn0966-6923
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11447/8641
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.projectFONDECYT: 11190892, 11200167; Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, ISCI: ANID PIA AFB180003es
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Chile (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 CL)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cl/
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectPublic transportation
dc.subjectTrip purpose
dc.subjectXGBoost
dc.titleEstimation of trip purposes in public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Santiago, Chile
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.accessRightsAcceso abierto
dcterms.sourceJournal of Transport Geography
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