Impact of COVID-19 on bus and urban public transport in SR

Abstract

The global health crisis, to the extent we are experiencing, has not affected the international community for more than a century. The epidemiological situation in recent months has severely affected all spheres of life and the economy, and has also significantly affected bus transport. Irregular bus tour transport was affected most by the measures taken and a number of carriers have no transport performance. The paper examines the results of the impact of the adopted preventive measures against the spread of COVID-19 on suburban bus transport and urban public transport. Due to the lack of overall data for 2020, a statistical survey was carried out on a sample of selected bus operators, examining the development of the number of passengers carried, the number of kilometers traveled during the first six months of 2020 compared to 2019. The adopted anti-epidemic measures have impacts on the costs of carriers and the outflow of passengers to passenger cars, respectively. to other types of mobility e.g. bicycle transport. This means increasing demands on the financing of bus transport by customers of public passenger transport.