Coronavirus Transport Changes

When Testing Positive is Good

Zipidi
Zipidi
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4 min readApr 20, 2020

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By Stephen Coulter & Krystyna Weston

Many cities around the world are using the coronavirus-driven reduction in transport as an opportunity to test alternative modes and reallocation of urban space. Many of these tests will be positive and provide sustained benefits once the crisis is over.

Here are links to some of the articles we’ve been following detailing the changes. We will continue to update these articles. Please follow us on Medium to stay informed.

Early research as China emerges from coronavirus shows an unwelcome return of privately owned cars to much higher levels of use than before coronavirus. This is the worst possible outcome. We believe industry, government and communities need to work together to provide encouragement and incentives for citizens to use bikes, scooters and other micromobility more instead of relying on cars.

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