Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Post-Pandemic Era (position paper)
It addresses urban planning and data science challenges for policymakers and researchers, but is incremental as a discussion paper.
This position paper discusses lessons learned from COVID-19 mobility restrictions and raises emerging challenges at the intersection of sustainable urban mobility and movement data science in the post-pandemic era.
COVID-19 is the first pandemic of the modern world causing significant changes to the everyday life of billions of people in all continents. To reduce its expansion, most governments decided to mitigate a great percentage of daily movements of their citizens. For instance, they enforced strict controls (in space, time, etc.) on urban movement whereas they selectively prohibited international air and ground connections. In this short study, we briefly discuss some lessons learned out of this process based on recorded mobility figures, and we raise challenges that are emerging in the post-pandemic era, in the intersection of the sustainable urban mobility and movement data science fields.