How the COVID-19 pandemic affected mobility in New York City?
This report, prepared by the NYC Department of City Planning (DCP), describes how transportation trends developed in NYC before COVID-19, and as residents and workers came to terms with the pandemic. The timeline highlights major phases of the pandemic in the city: the initial shock in the spring, the summer recovery period, and the pandemic's second wave through the fall and winter. The report then explores travel trends throughout 2020 by mode, documenting ridership on public transportation, automobiles, bikes, and ferries, and looks more closely at the geographic variations in travel in NYC.
Then, the report focuses on what was happening in the public realm over the year and how people evolved in their interactions outdoors. Finally, the report presents some thoughts on what comes next in 2021 and beyond. At the very end, the report contains links to more of the data visualizations and analyses put together by the team who created this report.
My role in this project was maily analyzing and visualizing the trends of different transportation modes. By monitoring and researching the ridership of public transit, including subway, bus, and railroad, and the volumes of traffic flows across bridges and tunnels, I created and designed the daily auto-updated dashboards as below. In addtion to these transportation modes, the second Tableau Story covered the analysis and visualization of FHV trip patterns and car ownership trends in NYC.
