Survey on urban transport in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak: Data from 20 cities across Europe

Elena Navajas-Cawood; Davide Fiorello; Mari Angeles Martinez; Juan Vicente Castellanos Quintana; Gabriella Scarcella; Panayotis Christidis

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.108910

Survey on urban transport in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak: Data from 20 cities across Europe

Data Brief. 2023 Feb:46:108910. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.108910. Epub 2023 Jan 16.

Authors

Elena Navajas-Cawood¹, Davide Fiorello², Mari Angeles Martinez³, Juan Vicente Castellanos Quintana⁴, Gabriella Scarcella⁵, Panayotis Christidis¹

Affiliations

¹ European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Seville, Spain.
² TRT Transporti e Territorio, Milan, Italy.
³ IPSOS, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ IPSOS, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ IPSOS, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

This dataset contains the full results of a survey on mobility patterns after the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey was conducted in the second trimester of 2021 and collected information from 10000 respondents across 20 urban areas. The questions covered demographic and socio-economic characteristics, employment and job related situation, the use of technological alternatives in daily activities, mobility patterns (trip frequency, purpose, destination, mode, level of comfort), and perceptions as regards the usability of each transport option. Particular emphasis was given to the comparison of current activity to that before the pandemic. The survey combined an online (Computer-Assisted Web Interviews, CAWI) approach with telephone (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviews, CATI) interviews. The sample in each city was representative of the local demographic and socio-economic profile according to age, sex, employment situation, education and urbanization.

Keywords: Car use; Impact analysis; Mobility; Pandemic; Public transport; User choices.