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During the early months of the pandemic, stay-at-home orders and concerns about infection led to a shift toward online activities, such as remote work and e-shopping, resulting in a significant decrease in conventional travel. However, as the effects of the pandemic diminished, the pandemic-induced online activities began to subside, and conventional travel started to rebound. The challenge among transportation planners and policymakers is to determine the long-term effects of the pandemic and adjust policies accordingly. As part of a large effort to understand the evolving activity patterns and travel choices during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and support policy making, the project team at the University of California, Davis designed and administered four waves of mobility surveys between Spring 2020 and Fall 2023.
Key findings reveal that remote work and a combination of remote work and physical commuting (i.e., hybrid work) appear to be emerging as an enduring outcome of the pandemic. The pandemic accelerated the rise of e-shopping, both for grocery and non-grocery purchases, with findings demonstrating the critical influence of socio-demographic factors, including age, gender, and income, on e-shopping adoption and frequency. The findings also show that socio-demographic factors such as work status, income level, and work arrangements are associated with household vehicle ownership changes and individual vehicle miles traveled (VMT). In particular, an increase in commute frequency reduces the likelihood of vehicle shedding, while amplifying the likelihood of vehicle acquisition. Remote workers exhibit lower commuting VMT but higher non-commuting VMT compared to hybrid workers.
Date: June 14, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Webinar
Speaker Biography
Giovanni Circella is the Director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program and the Honda Distinguished Scholar for New Mobility Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a professor of mobility in the Department of Geography of Ghent University. He is also the Head of the Master School in Urban Mobility of the European Institute of Technology, the elected Secretary of the executive board of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), and the Co-Secretary General of the World Conference for Transport Research Society (WCTRS). His recent research has focused on the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT), remote/hybrid work, e-shopping, new mobility (including shared mobility, micromobility, and ridehailing) and vehicle automation on travel behavior and auto ownership, and the evolving lifestyles and mobility patterns of various population segments (e.g. “millennials”) in various regions of the U.S., Europe, South America, and the Middle East.
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