Impact of COVID-19 on transportation in urban India

ABSTRACT

In this chapter, first, it is found that with the rapid increase in COVID-19 during the wave-1 and wave-2 of the pandemic in India, the overall mobility for various purposes as well as using various modes had decreased, while with decrease in COVID-19, the overall mobility had registered rapid increase. Second, an analysis of the perceptions of public transport commuters with respect to quality of service pre and post COVID-19 highlighted the declining popularity of public transport amongst the commuters post COVID-19. Third, the mode choices of the commuters during COVID-19 and prior to it in some of the Indian cities were investigated. Fourth, various existing contactless technologies were studied considering their inherent advantages and disadvantages and how to overcome those demerits. In summary, the readers are presented with a comprehensive overview of the issues as well as the possible solution towards handling public transportation in urban India post COVID-19.