Smart Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic and in the Post-pandemic World

Abstract

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus and its disease COVID-19 presented an unprecedented challenge for humanity. Since characterizing COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 11, 2020, the WHO recommends several public health measures to deal with the pandemic such as social distancing, wearing masks, and finding, isolating, testing, and treating every case and tracing every contact. Governments around the world applied tight restrictions, curfews, and localized lockdowns as a way to curb the spread of the virus. Governments kept easing and tightening these measures causing serious changes in consumer behaviors and preferences and short-term disruptions and longer-term structural changes in different aspects of mobility systems as discussed in this chapter .