Transportation Amid Pandemics

Junyi Zhang is a professor in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering and Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation at Hiroshima University, Japan. His research fields include transportation planning, urban and regional planning, traffic engineering, environment and energy policies, tourism policy, and health policy. He is the author of more than 470 refereed papers in journals Transportation Research Part A, B, C, and D, Journal of Transport Geography, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Energy Policy, Energy, Climate Change, Annals of Tourism Research, and Tourism Management. He has also published a book with Elsevier, Transport and Energy Research: A Behavioral Perspective. He is the co-chair of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society) COVID-19 Task Force and a foreign fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan. He has published 13 peer-reviewed pandemic-related papers in Transport Policy, Nature – Scientific Reports, Sustainable Cities and Society, Tourism Economics, and more. Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City at Chubu University, Japan, and Distinguished Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, China. He is Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome and Ex-President (2013-19) and Chair of COVID-19 Task Force of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society). He is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and 40 books, including Elsevier’s book Disaster Resilient Cities. His research areas include urbanization and motorization, urban smart growth/shrink management, rail transit systems, QOL based project evaluation method replacing cost-economic benefit analysis, and smart transport and cities. He was also a board member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, co-editor of Elsevier’s journal Transport Policy and Associate Editor of Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part D journal.

• INTRODUCTION1. Pandemics and Transport: Recording the History of FightsPART I PANDEMICS2. Historical overview of pandemics3. The public health challenges of COVID-19PART II IMPACTS, ASSOCIATIONS AND RESPONSES4. The impacts of the built environment factors and population mobility on the spread of COVID-19 during its initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case of China5. Impacts of COVID-19 on the transport sector in China: Facts and insights from early stages6. Impacts of COVID-19 on the economy and the transportation system in Germany 7. Impacts of COVID-19 on transport and responses to pandemic control in the Philippines8. Changes in mobility and challenges to the transport sector in Brazil due to COVID-19PART III LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINS9. Epidemic prevention and control and countermeasures based on cold chain link: the experiences of cold chain logistics in China10. Urban logistics and COVID-1911. Freight operations in the European Union during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country comparison12. Short-run impacts of COVID-19 on the maritime and port sector: Measures and recommended policies13. Longer-run policy measures on COVID-19 for the maritime and port sector: Plans and recommendations14. The impact of COVID-19 on air cargo logistics and supply chainsPART IV RESPONSES TO DISTANCING POLICIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT15. Changes in activity organization and travel behavior choices in the United States16. Social contact patterns and changes at leisure/tourism activity settings during COVID-19 period: An international comparison17. A cross-country analysis of behavioral changes due to social distancing policies in response to COVID-1918. The impact of COVID-19 and social distancing on social capital - Discussion based on the results of a survey in Japan19. Restriction of public transport services as a part of COVID-19 containment policies20. Comparing mobility, behavior, and public transit's pandemic adaptation in New Zealand and U.S. cities21. Impacts of COVID-19 on public transportation in urban India22. Passengers’ perception of COVID-19 countermeasures on urban railway in BangkokPART V FOR PANDEMIC RECOVERY23. The resilience of national highway transportation in China under the pandemic of COVID-1924. Tourism policy responses to COVID-19 and first-stage tourism recovery in China 25. The recovery of long distance mobility after COVID-19: What can we expect? 26. Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on carbon emissions from the road transport sector in China27. Contagion spread modeling in transport networks and transport operation optimizations for containing epidemics like COVID-1928. COVID-19 and big data technologies: Experience in ChinaPART VI FUTURE TRANSFORMATION29. Collective thoughts about the COVID-19 pandemic and transport from a worldwide expert survey30. From crisis management to sustainable and inclusive transport: Leveraging COVID-19 to improve public transport services in Asia 31. Putting Gender Equality in the Core of Covid-19 Recovery32. A proposal of a mobility vision toward post-Corona era33. The transport policy response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK 34. Governance for post-COVID-19 carbon reduction: A case study of the transport sector35. Governance, COVID-19 responses and lessons on decision-making in uncertaintyCONCLUSIONS36. Policy recommendations and future challenges