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Economic Aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic on external transport costs

A report from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs state that by 2050, 68% of the entire world’s population will live inside cities. Unfortunately, the transport system around the world has evolved preferring motorized traffic, mostly to the use of private cars, which reduces traffic safety and increases pollution and congestion. It was for these reasons that the big cities began to switch to sustainable transport systems. It’s a system that will come with reasonable costs, that will operate efficiently and that will offer all populations a choice between different transport alternatives. In this way, it is possible to create equality between the three most important components related to transport, namely economic, social and environmental. At the time of the COVID 19 pandemic, mobility decreased, especially in large urban areas. In their daily migrations, many commuters began to use sustainable forms of movement, such as cycling or walking. Also, indirectly they reduced external costs of transport such as accident costs, air pollution costs, noise cost and congestion costs, to name a few. By implementing sustainable mobility measures and deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), it is possible to reduce the mentioned costs even after the end of the pandemic, and thus a healthier life, reduction of congestion in large cities and greater traffic safety. For this reason it is possible to believe that the aforementioned negative effects, as well as other external costs, will decrease over the years, thus enabling a more sustainable life for future generations

sustainable mobility ; external costs of transport ; C-ITS ; COVID 19

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