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Transport changes and COVID ‐19: From present impacts to future possibilities
Author(s) -
Conrow Lindsey,
Campbell Malcolm,
Kingham Simon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/nzg.12315
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , scale (ratio) , climate change , range (aeronautics) , movement (music) , economic geography , geography , ecology , biology , engineering , cartography , medicine , outbreak , philosophy , disease , pathology , virology , aerospace engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , aesthetics
Changes in people's movement and travel behaviour have been apparent in many places during the COVID‐19 pandemic, with differences seen at a range of spatial scales. These changes, occurring as a result of the COVID‐19 ‘natural experiment’, have afforded us an opportunity to reimagine how we might move in our day‐to‐day travels, offering a hopeful glimpse of possibilities for future policy and planning around transport. The nature and scale of changes in movement and transport resulting from the pandemic have shown we can shift travel behaviour with strong policy responses, which is especially important in the concurrent climate change crisis.