What is the impact of long COVID on transport accessibility?
Background
The improve transport for the user strategic priority is critical in ensuring the department delivers and maintains a transport system that meets the needs of the public and addresses what they care about most. It puts the needs and expectations of current and potential users (both passengers and freight customers) at the heart of the operation of the transport system and considers about end-to-end journeys, not just individual transport modes. It is focused on ensuring that our infrastructure and the services which use it meet the varied needs of businesses and the public, are attractive, affordable, sustainable, and resilient is a crucial goal for the department.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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Future Resilient Transport Networks - FUTURENET
Much current discussion about transport and climate change focuses on the impact of transport on climate change. Indeed, many mitigation measures are focussed upon the transport change, and many mitigation measures are f...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by investigating the resilience of the UK transport system to the effects of climate change, but does not specifically address the impact of long COVID on transport accessibility.
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Covid-19 transport travel times
TravelTime Technologies have already built and commercialised a technology platform, accessed by API, that enables clients in 40 countries to analyse their own data by travel time, not distance. As one example, the NHS u...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically addresses the impact of COVID on travel times and provides a solution for analyzing travel time changes during the pandemic.
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GCRF_NF359: Modelling the exposure risk tradeoff between public transit and private paratransit for transport decision making in the era of Covid19
A safe and functioning transport system is vital to maintain economic activities in countries, developing or not. In most developing countries, the transport system is characterised by a crowded bus transit and micro-tra...
Funded by: GCRF
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by modeling the exposure risk tradeoff between public transit and private paratransit during COVID, but does not specifically address the impact of long COVID on transport accessibility.