We tackled 3 main questions:
1. What factors enabled some cities to make (and institutionalize) their mobility responses to the COVID pandemic,
2. How were public preferences and equity considerations incorporated into the planning and implementation of these responses, and
3. Were they motivated solely by the pandemic, or influenced by other factors as well?

These questions are critical for understanding both the long-term impact of the pandemic on transportation... (2)

...and informing development of resilient transportation plans and practices that build cities' capacity to respond quickly and equitably to future disruptions and to on-going crises.

I've got 50 free copies to share, so hit me up if you want to read the paper and don't have a library subscription.

I'll hit the highlights here though: (3)

This paper was a natural offshoot of my work with Carlos Pardo on the #ShiftingStreets Global COVID Mobility Database, in which we gathered and classified responses to pandemic-related changes in transportation demand in 1500 cities around the world.
In a 2021 paper introducing the database, we noted the pandemic's potential to redefine the entire field of transportation. (4)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2021.100322
https://www.pedbikeinfo.org/resources/resources_details.cfm?id=5235

Our goal in the current paper was to figure out how to shape post-pandemic transportation planning practices to support more resilient, equitable, sustainable cities.

We did this through a multi-step process, led by 1st author and wizard Lindsay Oluyede (Arizona State U). We started with a systematic search and screen of published research into city-level motivations, planning processes, and implementation strategies behind COVID streets programs (in English or Spanish). (5)

We used a qualitative factor analysis to organize the characteristics of cities' planning processes into 4 *how *factors, each generally describing a particular way of going about planning and implementing COVID streets programs: Opportunism, Crisis reaction, 'Normal was also a crisis!', and Agility.

Then we mapped the *why* and the *how *to see how they fit together (this fig. didn't make it into the paper, but I like it so here you go) (8)