Impact of covid‐19 and anti‐pandemic measures on the sustainability of demand in suburban bus transport. The case of the slovak republic

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has had a major impact on global social and economic development, including the transport sector. To prevent the spread of COVID‐19, individual states had to take radical measures, including the closure of schools, offices, and businesses. At present, an extraordinary situation persists in the Slovak Republic in connection to the COVID‐19 pandemic, which continues to influence the behavior and decisions of passengers when using public passenger transport. Anti‐pandemic measures in the Slovak Republic were reflected in a decrease in the mobility of the population in public passenger transport; the change in mobility manifested to different extents in individual regions of the Slovak Republic. Our research at the regional level is focused on the Žilina self‐governing region. The net impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 was clear through a year‐on‐year decrease in the number of total passenger transport systems for suburban bus transport (SBT) in ŽSK by 40.2% in March, in April by 70.0%, and in May by 60. 2%. There was a more significant decrease in the number of passengers in the first wave of the pandemic in the first half of 2020 than during the second wave of the pandemic in the second half of 2020. The decrease in demand was most pronounced in April 2020 in pupils and students aged 15 years (−89.3%), in children under 6 years (−85.7%), and in seniors over 65 (−80.0%). A time series of past demand for SBT in the Žilina self‐governing region, including data from the pandemic period used for forecasts of single‐criteria, reduced the reliability of estimated future values of demand. Estimated future demand values are an important part of SBT’s transport service plans for ensuring an adequate supply of transport services in order to maintain demand.

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Konečný, V., Brídziková, M., & Senko, Š. (2021). Impact of covid‐19 and anti‐pandemic measures on the sustainability of demand in suburban bus transport. The case of the slovak republic. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094967

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