Imbalanced adaptation of public bus transit in pandemic situations: case of Daejeon

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a significant impact on many different fields around the world from the beginning of 2020, is also bringing attention to the concept of social exclusion. Some people have difficulty accessing basic human rights such as education and health care. In this study, we focused on the mobility rights, and tried to quantitatively prove the extent to which infectious diseases affect unfairly according to the life pattern, location of each living area and the existence of alternative transportation means in Daejeon city. From the first to the third pandemic shock as Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) defines, an examination was conducted from the point of view of the disruption and resilience of the system. Shock-recovery model of each pandemic phases were defined, representative parameters were derived from the passenger demand data specific to each route. Residents of regions that have limited access to public transportation and a limited variety of available choices tend to demonstrate a reasonably high level of both flexibility and dependency.