Room to Move: Impacts of road-space reallocation

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic and associated national lockdowns rapidly reduced personal mobility and led to a rethinking of travel behaviours, at least for the short-term. Whilst on-going uncertainty makes longer-term planning difficult, this project looks back to establish the impacts of the pandemic on two contrasting local authorities in the North of England: Lancashire and Sheffield. Through a three-wave longitudinal panel study, this project has examined changes in travel behaviour emerging from the pandemic, the role and effect of temporary road-space reallocation measures and begins to explore what the resulting longer-term impacts are.