Table 5.
Identified opportunities on travel behavior and urban infrastructure levels.
| Identified challenges | Level of applicability |
|
|---|---|---|
| Travel Behavior | Urban Infrastructure | |
| Social | ||
| Traveling abroad nosedive | Y | – |
| Health care systems Asserting not to share vehicles | Y | – |
| Lack of trust among passengers | Y | – |
| Scarcity of urban infrastructures for imposing social distancing policy | – | Y |
| Handling crowds in transport infrastructures | – | Y |
| Increasing racism and discrimination | Y | – |
| The difficulty of changing the travel routines | Y | – |
| Economic | ||
| Urban freight distributions lag in the pandemic | – | Y |
| Riders spend less money on transportation | Y | – |
| Essential workers need to be on work in any situation | Y | – |
| Reduction in investment in mobility infrastructures | – | Y |
| Taxis and hailing rides are much more expensive | Y | – |
| High-tech infrastructures are not sufficient | – | Y |
| Environmental | ||
| Most cities don’t have enough bike lanes | – | Y |
| Environment issues in urban areas rise | – | Y |
| Using private cars increases | Y | – |
| Trivialize environmental issues | Y | – |
| Roads are not capable to bear a large number of cars | – | Y |