COVID-19

Transportation Research Board's Transportation Explorers Podcast

January 19, 2021

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Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, discusses her latest study, Future of Public Transit and Shared Mobility Scenario Planning for COVID 19 Recovery.

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How COVID Could Change the Bay Area For All of Us

February 11, 2021

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A year into the coronavirus pandemic there's hope on the horizon. It's too soon to know the lasting impacts on the Bay Area, but we asked experts in mental health, transportation and education to try and predict what we might expect in our day-to-day lives as we slowly emerge from this crisis.

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Shared Mobility and Automated Vehicles: Responding to socio-technical changes and pandemics

February 2, 2022

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Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen publishes a book that provides information on how to shape future shared vehicle systems.

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Covid has spurred a bike boom, but most U.S. cities aren’t ready for it

December 8, 2020

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Transportation Sustainability Research Center's co-director, Susan Shaheen, discusses the future of biking and shared micromobility in a post-COVID-19 world. The video and article include insight from a variety of transportation experts and practitioners on bicycling during and after the COVID-19 pandemic...

Bay Area mass transit could start to resemble Uber or Lyft

August 21, 2020

Susan Shaheen - in a navy patterned blouse and black pants - sits on a circular bench on the platform at the Orinda BART station in Orinda, California.

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen discusses the potential future of public transit and shared mobility during recovery from and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Scooters, electric bikes gain traction as COVID-19 lockdowns ease

July 14, 2020

A man wearing a face mask rides a scooter near the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on May 15, during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen discusses how scooters and electric bikes (e-bikes) are gaining traction as the COVID-19 lockdowns ease in the Pineville, North Carolina.

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Car-sharing companies are taking a less germ-infested route in Covid-19 times

May 20, 2020

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Car-sharing platforms, which have suffered during the Covid-19 lockdown, see an opportunity emerging: an increase in short-distance, local trips as U.S. consumers look for a different way of getting to work and running errands.

Executives from Turo, GetAround and ZipCar are hoping their pitch to customers—a means of travel that is cheaper than car ownership and sanitary—...

Will Bay Area traffic come roaring back after COVID-19? It might if we ditch transit for cars

May 8, 2020

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While clean air and traffic-free roads have been one of the few silver linings amid the coronavirus pandemic, there are worrying signs that the Bay Area’s fearsome congestion could come roaring back once public life resumes — and perhaps be worse than ever.

That’s because many of those who once packed into crowded buses and BART trains could opt to drive whenever people begin physically returning to...

COVID-19 Impacts on Shared Mobility: On-Demand Rides Shifting to Delivery Services

April 26, 2020

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Transportation Network Companies (TNCs, also known as ridehailing and ridesourcing) generate a significant percentage of their gross bookings from trips in large metropolitan areas, including trips to and from airports. For example, in 2019, Uber generated 23% of its ride gross bookings from five metropolitan areas — Chicago, London, Los...