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Transport and Pandemic Experiences (Transport and Sustainability, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. i-xxiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120220000017019 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Copyright © 2022 Maria Attard and Corinne Mulley Half Title Page TRANSPORT AND PANDEMIC EXPERIENCES Series Page TRANSPORT AND SUSTAINABILITY Series Editors: Stephen Ison, Jon Shaw and Maria Attard Recent Volumes: Volume 1: Cycling and Sustainability Volume 2: Transport and Climate Change Volume 3: Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities Volume 4: Sustainable Aviation Futures Volume 5: Parking: Issues and Policies Volume 6: Sustainable Logistics Volume 7: Sustainable Urban Transport Volume 8: Paratransit: Shaping the Flexible Transport Future Volume 9: Walking: Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health Volume 10: Transport, Travel and Later Life Volume 11: Safe Mobility: Challenges, Methodology and Solutions Volume 12: Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America: Evidence, Concepts, Methods Volume 13: Sustainable Transport and Tourism Destinations Volume 14: Sustainable Railway Engineering and Operations Volume 15: Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car Volume 16: Women, Work and Transport Editorial Page EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Lucy Budd, De Montfort University, UK Michela Le Pira, University of Catania, Italy Becky Loo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Corinne Mulley, University of Sydney, Australia John Nelson, University of Sydney, Australia Joachim Scheiner, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Title Page TRANSPORT AND SUSTAINABILITY - VOLUME 17 TRANSPORT AND PANDEMIC EXPERIENCES EDITED BY MARIA ATTARD University of Malta, Malta and CORINNE MULLEY University of Sydney, Australia United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China Copyright Page Emerald Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2022 Editorial matter and selection © 2022 Maria Attard and Corinne Mulley. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-80117-345-2 (Print) ISBN: 978-1-80117-344-5 (Online) ISBN: 978-1-80117-346-9 (Epub) ISSN: 2044-9941 (Series) Contents List of Figures and Tables xi About the Contributors xv Acknowledgements xxiii PART 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Transport and Pandemic Experiences: An Introduction Maria Attard and Corinne Mulley 3 Chapter 2: How Do Transportation Policies Drive Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Infections and Deaths in the United States? Hossein Zare, Benjo Delarmente and Darrell J. Gaskin 15 Chapter 3: The Dilemma of Transport Policy Making and the COVID-19 Accelerator Kay W. Axhausen 39 PART 2: TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS Chapter 4: North American Transportation During COVID-19: What Really Changed? Matthew Palm 55 Chapter 5: Changes in Travel Behaviour in Europe Veronique Van Acker 77 Chapter 6: Cities Under Lockdown: Mobility and Access Inequalities Stemming from COVID-19 in Urban Colombia Daniel Oviedo, Luis A. Guzman, Julian Arellana, Orlando Sabogal-Cardona, Carlos Moncada and Lynn Scholl 107 Chapter 7: Pandemic Response and (Im)mobilities in the Asia-Pacific Matthew Burke, Yiping Yan, Benjamin Kaufman and Pan Haixiao 127 Chapter 8: Logistics and Supply Chain Around the World Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya, Sonali Tripathi, Arda Gezdur, Catherine Sutton-Brady and Michael Bell 149 PART 3: INITIATIVES AND POLICIES ACROSS THE WORLD Chapter 9: Development of Active Travel Initiatives in Cities Romeo Danielis and Mariangela Scorrano 165 Chapter 10: Policies for Public Transport John D. Nelson, Geoffrey Clifton and Miguel Loyola 185 Chapter 11: Development of Policies for Ridesourcing and Taxis Matthew W. Daus Esq. 203 Chapter 12: Development of Global Policies for the Air Transport Industry 221 Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison Chapter 13: Reducing Congestion and Crowding with Working from Home David A. Hensher, Matthew J. Beck, John D. Nelson and Camila Balbontin 235 Chapter 14: Pandemic Lasting Effects on Freight Networks: Challenges and Directions from Cities and Industry Sandra Melo and Lurdes de Jesus Ferreira 257 PART 4: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Chapter 15: Impacts on Travel and Tourism Luca Zamparini 273 Chapter 16: Impact on Public Transport Erik Jenelius 287 Chapter 17: Impacts on Health Jennifer L. Kent and Melanie Crane 303 Index 323 List of Figures and Tables Figures Fig. 2.1. Survival Curves of First COVID-19 Case and First COVID-19 Death Relative to the Distance to Major Airports. 24 Fig. 2.2. Survival Curves of First COVID-19 Case and First COVID-19 Death Relative to the Volume of the Airports. 25 Fig. 3.1. Proportion of Mobile Persons Until the Beginning of November 2021. 43 Fig. 3.2. PKm and Weekly Modal Shares Since Autumn 2019. 44 Fig. 3.3. Weekly Modal Shares of Walking and Cycling Since Autumn 2019. 45 Fig. 3.4. Share of Employed Persons WFH in Switzerland Since 2001. 46 Fig. 3.5. PKm Travelled by Work Location. 46 Fig. 4.1. The Most Important Destinations Reached by Torontonians and Vancouverites by Transit in May 2020. 59 Fig. 4.2. Quarterly Transit Ridership by Mode, Relative to Q1 of 2019, from Dickens (2021). 60 Fig. 4.3. Statistics from Various Surveys on Anticipated Changes in Transit Use. 61 Fig. 4.4 (a) US and Canadian Vehicle Sales from BTS and Statistics Canada. (b) Estimates of Number of Households by Number of Vehicles from the American Community Survey. (c) Change in Number of Adults Versus Number of Cars, US American Community Survey. 63 Fig. 4.5 (a) Vehicle Sales During the Pandemic in the United States (Federal Reserve Board of New York). (b) New Vehicle Registrations Relative to 2019 Canada (Statistics Canada). 65 Fig. 5.1. Different Steps of the Literature Review Process. 81 Fig. 6.1. LCA Model Components. 113 Fig. 6.2. Share of Respondents Teleworking by Income Group (Above) and Shopping by Income Groups During the Lockdown (Below). 116 Fig. 6.3. Agreement with Policies Implemented by Income Groups (Above) and Economic Impact by Income Group (Below). 118 Fig. 6.4. Transport Modes Before (Above) and During (Below) the Lockdown by Clusters Identified in the LCA Model. 121 Fig. 6.5. Distribution of Time for Shopping (a), Leisure (b) and Domestic Tasks (c), and Satisfaction with Overall Distribution (d). 122 Fig. 7.1. Percentage Change in Domestic and International Flight Numbers Versus Confirmed Cases of COVID-19, China, January–August 2020. 138 Fig. 7.2. Congestion Index Level for 2018–2020 for 16 Cities Asia-Pacific Cities. 139 Fig. 7.3. Public Transport Patronage Change in the SEQ Region, October 2018–February 2022. 140 Fig. 7.4. Commuters and Telecommuters Percentage in Different Industries in Shanghai. 140 Fig. 7.5. Commuting Mode Change Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Shanghai. 141 Fig. 7.6. Comparison of Passenger Flows on Shanghai Metro Line 2 During Spring Festival in 2019 and 2020. 142 Fig. 10.1. COVID-19 Transport Policy Outcomes Are Informed by COVID-19 Narratives Plus Pre-existing Transport Narratives and Policies. 188 Fig. 10.2. COVID-19 Narratives. 189 Fig. 13.1. An Example of a Return to High Levels of Road Congestion. 237 Fig. 13.2. Changes in Public Transport Use in Sydney. 237 Fig. 13.3. Change in the Incidence of WFH Compared to Commuting by Various Locations in Australia in September 2020 (W3) and May/June 2021 (W4). 238 Fig. 13.4. Workers Who Would Prefer Mix of Work from Home and Office (July/August 2020). 239 Fig. 13.5. Employer and Employee View on Work from Home Policy When Restrictions End (Wave 2 = May and Wave 3 = September 2020). 239 Fig. 13.6. Commuting Activity by Mode (Wave 2 and Wave 3). 240 Fig. 13.7. Commuting Modal Share Prior to COVID-19 (Australia and South America). 241 Fig. 13.8. Commuting Modal Share Last Week in 2020 (Australia and South America). 242 Fig. 13.9. Commuting/Work Travel and Working from Home by Day of Week (Wave 3 and Wave 4). 243 Fig. 13.10. The Relationship between the Proportion of Days Working from Home and One-way Weekly Trips for Each Trip Purpose (Balbontin et al., 2021a). 243 Fig. 13.11. Level of Concern About Public Transport (Hygiene and Crowding). 246 Fig. 13.12. Perception of Safety of Using Public Transport. 247 Fig. 13.13. Returning to Using Public Transport. 248 Fig. 16.1. Daily Ridership in Stockholm, Sweden for Different Public Transport Modes. Relative Change from 2019 to 2020–2021. Data from Region Stockholm Transport Administration. 292 Tables Table 1.1. A Timeline of Selected Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 5 Table 1.2. Number of Cases and Deaths Caused by COVID-19 by Region. 7 Table 2.1. Distribution of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Proximity to the Airport and Volume of Passengers Travelling to the Airport. 21 Table 2.2. Associations of COVID-19 Cases and Death Rates and Proximity to Airports, Train Stations and Public Transportation. 22 Table 2.3. Associations of COVID-19 Cases and Death Rates and Proximity to Airports, Train Stations and Public Transportation. 23 Table 2.4. Associations of COVID-19 Cases and Death Rates and Household Density and Racial Compositions. 27 Table 2.5. Associations of COVID-19 Cases and Death Rates and Proximity to Airports, Train Stations and Public Transportation by Majority-White and Majority Non-White Counties. 28 Table 2.6a. Associations of COVID-19 Cases and Death Rates and Proximity to Airports, Train Stations, and Public Transportation by Region by Using Negative Binomial Regression Models. 30 Table 2.6b. Associations of COVID-19 Cases and Death Rates and Proximity to Airports, Trains Stations, and Public Transportation by Region by Using Cox Regression Models. 32 Table 5.1. COVID-19 Context in Spring 2020 Across EU-27 Countries and Switzerland, Norway and UK. 80 Table 6.1. Descriptive Statistics. 114 Table 6.2. Description of the Three Latent Classes. 119 Table 7.1. Immobility Policies and Practices in the Asia-Pacific Nations of East and South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand to Respond to COVID-19 in 2020–2021. 132 Table 8.1. New Projects to Create Opportunity for Recovery from the Pandemic (Agarwal, 2021; GlobalData Healthcare, 2021; Gupta, 2020; Jain & Makhija, 2020; The Insight Partners, 2020). 154 Table 9.1. The Impact of Covid-19 on Active Mobility – Selected Papers. 167 Table 9.2. A Selection of Policy Initiatives Supporting Active Mobility During Covid-19 Pandemic. 172 Table 10.1. Narratives Around New Transport Options Versus Narratives Around Public and Active Travel. 189 Table 10.2. COVID-19 Transport Policies and Their Implications for Public Transport. 190 Table 13.1. Implied Direct Mean Elasticities of the One-way Weekly Trips by Trip Purpose With Respect to the Probability of WFH (Balbontin et al., 2021a). 245 Table 15.1. Per cent Changes in Travel and Tourism Revenues and Employment. 275 Table 15.2. Absolute Variations in Travel and Tourism GDP and in Employment. 275 Table 17.1. Summary of Impacts of Transport Modes on Health. 305 Table 17.2. Summary of Transport Scenarios and Potential Health Impacts. 317 About the Contributors Julian Arellana is the Dean of the College of Engineering at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from Universidad del Norte, MSc and PhD degrees in Engineering Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is a member of the Academic Network of Mobility in Colombia, the Pan-American Society for Transport Research, and the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low-Income Communities for Latin America. He has co-authored more than 45 articles in scientific journals. His areas of interest are transport modelling, transport planning, transport economics, active mobility, and the novel application of choice experiments. Maria Attard is Head of Geography and Director of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Malta. She is Co-editor of Research in Transportation Business and Management, Associate Editor of Case Studies on Transport Policy and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography among others. Between 2002 and 2008, she was a Consultant to Malta’s government and helped develop the first white paper on transport policy (2004) and implement the 2006 Valletta Strategy including park-and-ride, pedestrianisation and road pricing (2007). She also supported the planning for the 2011 public transport reform. She sits on the Steering Committee of the World Conference for Transport Research Society and is a Cluster co-chair for NECTAR. Kay W. Axhausen is a Professor of Transport Planning at ETH Zürich since 1999. He has worked on measurement and modelling of travel behaviour with a focus on survey methods and agent-based simulation; most recently www.matsim.org and the tracking of the COVID-19 epidemics and its impact on working from home. Camila Balbontin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Her research focusses on travel behaviour, discrete choice modelling, and decision heuristics. Matthew J. Beck is a Professor at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney, with an interest in survey methods and the application of choice models, and in recent years with the impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour and especially the influence of working from home. Michael Bell is the Foundation Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics in the Institute of Transport and Logistics. His research and teaching interests are catholic, spanning ports and maritime logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering, and intelligent transport systems. He is the author of many papers, a number of books (including Transportation Network Analysis, published in 2007) and was for 17 years an Associate Editor of Transportation Research B. In 2005, he founded the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC), a virtual centre spanning both Civil Engineering and the Business School dedicated to research and consultancy in the field of ports and maritime logistics. Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya’s research focusses on the role of digital technologies in facilitating supply chain resilience and sustainability. She supervises several PhD projects in these rapidly developing areas. Each supervised project involves significant engagement with industry partners either internationally or within Australia. Within the University, her research engagement involves membership in Sydney Nano, the Computational Approaches to Language Research Node of the Sydney Centre for Language Research, and the Digital Disruption Research Group. Her research has been supported by several business school grants. She serves on the editorial review boards of International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and Production and Operations Management (POM) and acts as a reviewer for several other supply chain and related journals. Lucy Budd is a Professor of Air Transport Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and Editor of the Journal Research in Transportation Business and Management (Elsevier). Her research focusses on contemporary aspects of air transport policy and operations from both an airline and airport perspective. Matthew Burke is Griffith University’s Chair Professor for the Transport Academic Partnership, involving the Queensland Government, and the Transport Innovation and Research Hub with Brisbane City Council. His research is across travel behaviour, transport geography, and transport planning. Geoffrey Clifton is a Senior Lecturer in Transport and Logistics Management at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney with a focus on buses with higher levels of service and the policy frameworks to support public and community transport services. Melanie Crane is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. She is an evaluation specialist and has a focus on systems thinking and health and sustainability in relation to the urban environment and has published extensively on health impacts of transport. Romeo Danielis is a Full Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Trieste, Italy. His research focusses on input–output and environmental modelling, transport economics and policy, external cost evaluation, transport demand modelling, discrete choice modelling, and total cost of ownership of electric vehicles. Matthew W. Daus, Esq. is Transportation Technology Chair at The City College of New York’s Transportation Research Center, at the City University of NY, President of the International Association of Transportation Regulators, Partner and Transportation Law Practice Chair at Windels Marx, and former longest-serving NYC Taxi & Limousine Commissioner/Chair. Benjo Delarmente is a Physician and PhD candidate in Health Economics and Policy at the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include social determinants of health, the effects of value-based purchasing on vulnerable populations, and the effects of incentives and health policies on treatment choice and provider behaviour. Lurdes de Jesus Ferreira is a Researcher at Smart & Sustainable Living Co-Lab of CEiiA, Centro de Engenharia e Desenvolvimento (CEiiA), in Portugal. She is a PhD candidate in the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies Doctoral program at the Institute of Social Sciences of Lisbon University since 2019. She has a Master’s in Economics and Energy Policy and Environment from ISEG (2009) and has an academic and professional background in Communication Sciences/Journalism. She worked as a Journalist and Editor in print media in Portugal, namely PÚBLICO and Visão. Her research interests include behavioural economics for sustainability, climate change adaptation and mitigation at a local scale, governance, communities, and the role of climate change education in climate action. Darrell J. Gaskin is the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a health services researcher and health economist who is internationally known for his expertise in health disparities, access to care for vulnerable populations, and safety-net hospitals. Arda Gezdur has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and an Executive MBA from Koc University in Turkey. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney working with Dr Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya. His research focusses on the use of natural language processing applications in operations and supply chain management. His work experience spans oil and gas, pharmaceutical and vision care industries. Luis A. Guzman is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). His research interests include urban mobility, transport and land-use interaction, and social, economic and spatial analysis of inequalities related to urban transport and policy evaluation in Latin America. He is also a consultant and adviser in different urban transport projects in Colombia. He is the author of several articles published in international journals related to the evaluation of transport policies, poverty, equity and urban structure. Pan Haixiao is a Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Urban Planning at the Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He is one of China’s most-respected and well-known transport researchers, having published three books in the field of transport and land use planning. David A. Hensher is the Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, a recipient of numerous awards, and published over 697 papers as well as 16 books. He has over 65,000 citations of his contributions in Google scholar. Stephen Ison is a Professor of Air Transport Policy at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and Founding Editor of the Journal Research in Transportation Business and Management (Elsevier). His work as a transport economist has led him to research diverse areas including, most recently, urban mobility, workplace parking, and air freight. Erik Jenelius is an Associate Professor of Public Transport Systems and Head of the Division of Transport Planning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He holds an MSc degree in Engineering Physics and a PhD degree in Infrastructure from the same university. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Advanced Transportation and IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and is one of the internationally most highly ranked researchers regarding citation impact within transportation and logistics. His research aims to tackle the challenges of environmental impacts, resilience, and crowding in urban transport systems. Benjamin Kaufman is a PhD Candidate in Griffith University’s transport research team. His thesis explores contemporary demand-responsive transit (DRT) systems, with a particular focus on equity outcomes. His research interests include innovative transit systems, micro-mobility, and mobility-as-a-service. Jennifer L. Kent is a Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are at the intersections between planning, transport, and health. She specialises in combining quantitative and qualitative data with understandings from policy science to trace the practical, cultural, and political barriers to healthy cities. Miguel Loyola is currently a Doctoral candidate and Research Analyst at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney. His research is interdisciplinary and focusses on the implementation of sustainable transport policies. Sandra Melo is the Chair of the Portuguese Transport Studies Group and Coordinator of the Department of Applied Intelligence and Analytics at CEiiA (Portugal), where she has coordinated and developed R&D projects on the evaluation of the urban air mobility segment and respective integration with ground mobility solutions. Carlos Moncada is a Civil Engineer and has a PhD in Engineering-Transport, MSc in Transport Engineering, and MSc in Infrastructure Planning. He has 21 years of experience in transport and infrastructure projects as director, consultant, advisor, and engineer in the public and private sector of developing countries. He is an Associate Professor in Transport Planning and Transport Policy – Transport Modeller. He is also the Head of Department of Civil and Agricultural Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2018–2022). Corinne Mulley was the inaugural Chair of Public Transport at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. She is now Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and carries Honorary positions at Aberdeen and Leeds Universities in the United Kingdom and at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She is a transport economist and is active in transport research at the interface of transport policy and economics, in particular on issues relating to public transport. She has provided both practical and strategic advice on transport evaluation, including economic impact analysis, benchmarking, rural transport issues, and public transport management. Her research is motivated by a need to provide evidence for policy initiatives and she has been involved in such research at local, state/regional, national/federal, and European levels. John D. Nelson is the Chair in Public Transport at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney. His interests include the application and evaluation of new technologies to improve transport systems as well as the policy frameworks and regulatory regimes necessary to achieve sustainable mobility. Daniel Oviedo is an Assistant Professor at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit of University College London. An engineer and development planner by training, he has over 10 years of experience in the analysis of social and spatial inequalities of urban mobility, and the role of formal and informal transport on social inclusion and well-being in cities of Latin America and Africa. Matthew Palm is a Research Fellow at the University of Toronto Scarborough and an Affiliate Professor for the Masters in Sustainable Transportation at the University of Washington. Orlando Sabogal-Cardona is a PhD student at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit DPU in University College London. He is an Engineer with expertise in studying urban and transportation issues. As part of his previous jobs he has developed skills in programming (R user) to conduct data analysis, statistical models, geographic computation tasks, visualisation, map-making, and in general, to make sense of data. His work has two distinguishing features: a theoretically driven approach to analyse data (understand what he is statically modelling) and a strong geographical component. An advocate of R, open data, and reproducible research. Lynn Scholl is a Senior Transport Specialist at the Interamerican Development Bank IDB where she leads research projects on inclusive sustainable transport in the Latin American and the Caribbean LAC region. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. More recently, she has been working at the intersection of machine learning and videos to assess traffic calming interventions intended to improve the well-being of vulnerable users. Since three years ago, she has been pushing a research agenda on how app-based mobility can be used to produce positive social outcomes. Mariangela Scorrano is an Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Trieste, Italy. Her research interests focus on transport economics and policy, transport demand modelling, discrete choice modelling, total cost of ownership, and the integration between electric mobility and renewable energy sources. Catherine Sutton-Brady is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Sydney Business School. She holds a PhD from Western Sydney University, and her research interests lie in the area of business-to-business marketing especially focussing on relationships and networks. She has published in these areas as well as in the area of higher education. Her research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Education. Sonali Tripathi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Quality Control from Maharaja Sayajirao University, India and a Master’s degree in Logistics Management from The University of Sydney. As a student in the Master’s program, she has worked as a Research Assistant with Dr Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya. Her work experience and research interests are focussed on contract logistics. Veronique Van Acker is a Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg. Her research focusses on the interactions between the built environment, travel behaviour, and well-being while taking into account subjective factors such as lifestyles, values, and attitudes. Yiping Yan is a PhD candidate in Griffith University’s transport research team. Her thesis seeks to improve market segmentation for Australian mode choice models. Her research interests include accessibility, children and women’s travel behaviour and metropolitan transport modelling. Luca Zamparini is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Salento, Italy. His research focusses on the economics of services with a particular emphasis on transport, tourism, and their relevance for local development. Hossein Zare holds a PhD in Health Policy and Management. He is an Assistant Scientist at the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus. Dr. Zare is a researcher who is mostly working on health and racial disparities, income inequality, neighborhoods and violence, and hospital community benefits to improve health access. Acknowledgements This book would not have been needed if COVID-19 had not become a pandemic. We record here our sorrow and condolences to all those people in the world who have been touched by the pandemic and who have lost their lives. This book could not exist without our authors who have so willingly contributed their knowledge. Without exception, they have responded quickly to all our editorial demands which have made our lives, as editors, as easy as they could be. Our authors come from all parts of the globe and we have enjoyed working with them, facilitated by the technology that we now all take for granted. Apart from the authors, there are many individuals who have contributed behind the scenes – too many to list here but we hope they know that we know who they are. Special thanks must go to Steve Ison who encouraged us to start this journey. And whilst it is not so usual to acknowledge the support of our families, we feel we must do so here as undertaking this enterprise, where time has been of the essence, has meant that homelife has had to be very patient – especially our dogs who do not understand why their needs are sometimes a second place to work needs. Book Chapters Prelims Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Transport and Pandemic Experiences: An Introduction Chapter 2: How Do Transportation Policies Drive Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Infections and Deaths in the United States? Chapter 3: The Dilemma of Transport Policy Making and the COVID-19 Accelerator Part 2: Travel Behaviour in Different Settings Chapter 4: North American Transportation During COVID-19: What Really Changed? Chapter 5: Changes in Travel Behaviour in Europe Chapter 6: Cities Under Lockdown: Mobility and Access Inequalities Stemming from COVID-19 in Urban Colombia Chapter 7: Pandemic Response and (Im)mobilities in the Asia-Pacific Chapter 8: Logistics and Supply Chain Around the World Part 3: Initiatives and Policies Across the World Chapter 9: Development of Active Travel Initiatives in Cities Chapter 10: Policies for Public Transport Chapter 11: Development of Policies for Ridesourcing and Taxis Chapter 12: Development of Global Policies for the Air Transport Industry Chapter 13: Reducing Congestion and Crowding with Working from Home Chapter 14: Pandemic Lasting Effects on Freight Networks: Challenges and Directions from Cities and Industry Part 4: Looking to the Future Chapter 15: Impacts on Travel and Tourism Chapter 16: Impact on Public Transport Chapter 17: Impacts on Health Index