COVID-19 and transport safety

IF 9.5 1区 工程技术 Q1 TRANSPORTATION Transport Reviews Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI:10.1080/01441647.2023.2251684
Ennis Marshall , Mohammadali Shirazi , John N. Ivan
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Transportation safety has substantially been impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. To contain the spread of the virus, governments around the world released guidelines (e.g. stay-at-home orders), which reduced or eliminated peoples’ daily commutes. These travel restrictions introduced new safety challenges for roadways and drivers, transit riders, and pedestrians and cyclists. Many cities, states, and countries around the world reported more severe crashes despite fewer drivers on the road. Transit ridership reduced as the risk of infection with COVID-19 kept transit users away, and walking and biking became more popular as they could be done individually in open air. This paper conducts a structured critical review to summarise and discuss studies around the world on roadway, transit, and pedestrian and bicycle safety since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. For roadway safety, we further review studies that examine the direct measures of safety (e.g. crash statistics and models) as well as indirect or surrogate measures (e.g. speeding, aggressive driving, and reduced seatbelt usage). Surrogate measures, although indirectly, can affect the risk of crashes and contribute to the increase in frequency and severity of crashes. Findings are documented and discussed. We then provide suggestions on potential avenues for future research. Particularly, research studies show that the rate of severe injury crashes, as well as aggressive driving (e.g. speeding) increased in most places during the travel restrictions, and continued even after these restrictions were lifted. The safety of pedestrians and bicycles has also become increasingly important due to the increase in the number of users of these modes.

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COVID-19 和运输安全
交通安全受到 COVID-19 大流行的严重影响。为遏制病毒传播,世界各国政府发布了指导方针(如留在家中的命令),减少或取消了人们的日常通勤。这些出行限制给道路和司机、公交乘客、行人和骑车人带来了新的安全挑战。据世界上许多城市、州和国家的报告,尽管路上的司机减少了,但严重的交通事故却增加了。由于感染 COVID-19 的风险使得公交乘客减少,而步行和骑自行车由于可以在露天单独进行而变得更受欢迎。本文对 COVID-19 大流行以来世界各地有关道路、公交、行人和自行车安全的研究进行了有条理的批判性回顾总结和讨论。在道路安全方面,我们进一步回顾了对安全的直接衡量标准(如碰撞统计数据和模型)以及间接或替代衡量标准(如超速、激进驾驶和安全带使用率降低)的研究。代用措施虽然是间接的,但也会影响撞车风险,并导致撞车频率和严重程度的增加。我们将对研究结果进行记录和讨论。然后,我们就未来研究的潜在途径提出了建议。特别是,研究表明,在旅行限制期间,大多数地方的重伤撞车率和激进驾驶(如超速)率都有所上升,甚至在这些限制取消后仍在继续。由于行人和自行车使用人数的增加,行人和自行车的安全也变得越来越重要。
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Transport Reviews TRANSPORTATION-
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期刊介绍: Transport Reviews is an international journal that comprehensively covers all aspects of transportation. It offers authoritative and current research-based reviews on transportation-related topics, catering to a knowledgeable audience while also being accessible to a wide readership. Encouraging submissions from diverse disciplinary perspectives such as economics and engineering, as well as various subject areas like social issues and the environment, Transport Reviews welcomes contributions employing different methodological approaches, including modeling, qualitative methods, or mixed-methods. The reviews typically introduce new methodologies, analyses, innovative viewpoints, and original data, although they are not limited to research-based content.
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