PROJECT STORY
The challenge
With COVID-19, citizens around the world have changed their mobility habits. Major cities and mobility stakeholders are seeking to understand these developments in order to adapt their transport offerings.
COVIMOB
Analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on mobility to adapt service offerings in major cities
The solution
Arcadis is participating in the COVIMOB project to understand, through data analysis, changes in the travel behavior of city dwellers in order to help urban stakeholders adapt their service offerings.
The impact
Arcadis' data analysis work and knowledge of mobility will enable users to find a mobility offer in their city that is better suited to their new requirements.
20%
fewer travelers using public transport in Lyon in 2020 compared to 2019
30%
more bike users in Lyon in 2020 compared to 2019
28%
of new bike users for home-to-work commutes in Lyon are former users of public transport.
The challenge
With the pandemic, citizens around the world have seen their daily habits upended. Travel has been particularly affected by successive lockdowns. Specifically, major cities have seen a huge rise in popularity for soft modes of transport such as bikes and electric scooters. Are city dwellers gradually shifting from car use to greener, more economical modes of transport? Will COVID-19 transform our relationship with mobility in the long term? Should transport availability in cities be adapted to these changes?
The solution
On behalf of the Metropolis of Lyon, Sytral and Laboratoire d'Aménagement et d'Économie des Transport (the Laboratory of Transport, Urban Planning and Economics, or LAET), Arcadis is participating in the COVIMOB project, which aims to observe and analyze changes in mobility following the health crisis.
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As part of this work, Arcadis is looking to understand how traffic levels are changing across different modes of transport (car, bike and subway) and in different territories, and the impact of public policies designed to promote soft modes of transport. The aim is to detect new mobility trends or even lasting changes.
Drawing on its expertise in data analysis, Arcadis has mobilized the most suitable tools to build a database allowing all project stakeholders to monitor developments and easily share the data collected. While this project focuses on Lyon and the Rhône department, it also collects and compares the indicators of several other major cities, including Paris, New York and Amsterdam. The project data, which will continue to be enriched over time, helps to highlight lessons learned and trends, such as the impact of remote working on the use of different means of transport, changes in the choice of modes of transport or the major challenges faced by public transport networks to restore their traveler numbers and funding levels.This data and Arcadis' knowledge of mobility also allow projections to be made.
The impact
Using data analysis to understand changes in mobility, Arcadis can support urban stakeholders in rethinking their policies and adapting their service offerings to new uses.
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Arcadis is thus helping to improve the mobility experience of city dwellers by enabling them to find a transport offer better suited to their changing needs and expectations.
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