Neighborhood, Built Environment and Resilience in Transportation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2022

Core contribution: This article conceptualizes transit resilience during COVID-19 as a neighborhood-contextual process. By comparing observed and counterfactual ridership, it shows that vulnerability and recovery are jointly shaped by built environment conditions, policy shocks, and social vulnerability.

Highlights
  • Measures transit vulnerability and resilience with a Bayesian structural time-series framework.
  • Moves beyond ridership decline to compare shock, counterfactual baseline, and recovery trajectory.
  • Shows that built environment features can create trade-offs between ordinary ridership and pandemic resilience.
  • Connects transit resilience with neighborhood social vulnerability and unequal adaptive capacity.
Conceptual poster showing transit resilience as contextual to built environment and social vulnerability
Graphical abstract