The human ability to move it depends on multiple factors. The economy and health are among the most important, in addition to the offer of public transport and the state of infrastructures. the swings of the pandemic have marked the citizen flows, for worse when the infections they were fired, and for the better, when the thing relaxed. The irruption of the variant omicron, for example, has undoubtedly marked a inflection point in this sixth covid wave. Everything has fallen in Barcelona: commuting in private vehicle and the use of the subway and the bus. We are more at home. In other words, less on the street.
The validations of the last days in the network of Barcelona Metropolitan Transport (TMB) allow to realize the scope of the thing. Last November (the best month since March 2020) 81.8% of the trips made in 2019 were reached, before the coronavirus outbreak. In December, demand fell in the global bus and metro to 76.5%. The start of 2022 has maintained the downward trend and it has been quite a January hill for shared mobility. Between days 1 and 15, 71.3% of the usual trips in 2019, 10% percentage points less than two months ago, when the omicron only showed its fringe in our country. The downturn has been noticeable both in the rush hour, when the bulk of travelers who have been regaining confidence in the metro and the bus usually coincide, as in the rest of the day, moment in which it is costing more to recover passage because it is occasional trips.
Recovery
TMB closed 2021 with a recovery of 27.6% compared to the first year of covid, but still far from the figures for 2019, when in total 32% more citizens were transported both on the surface and underground. In total figures, there were 90 million more validations than in 2020, but 200 million fewer than two years earlier. The Recovery shot up from summer, but especially in the last months of 2021. That is the balance of travelers. It remains to be seen how the economic game of the metropolitan transport company has been closed.
The private vehicle has been reborn at a much higher rate, and on some occasions, the number of trips has been even higher than that recorded before the pandemic. Until December 23, the records were very similar to those of February 2020, almost always less than 10% below what was usual before the covid outbreak. From the Good nightHowever, with the entry into force of new restrictions by the Government, things began to change. Meetings were limited to a maximum of 10 people, a lockdown from 1 to 6 in the morning in hundreds of municipalities, the capacity was limited in the restoration and cultural events and nightlife closed. Therefore, traffic and mobility began to back down.
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fewer cars
If from December 16 to 23, the average was approximately one 5% fewer cars in the city overall of Barcelona (the sum of accesses, interior of the city and the two ring roads) in the coming weeks. In the subsequent 25 days, from December 24 to January 16, the average was 18% less traffic. That is to say, 13 percentage points less and a lot of cars that remained in the car parks or parked on the street. In fact, if the 25 days prior to December 23 are added, the average is 5.2% less circulation, with days in which they scrubbed the precovid data, such as day 12 (-0.2%) or day 18 (-1.2%). Instead, since Christmas Eve, the closest it has been to the pre-March 2020 era is -12.7% on January 13, but with many days below -25%. The latest available data, that of January 16, maintains the downward trend, with 18.2% less circulation than in February 2020, the month that is used as a reference to compare the evolution of private mobility since the emergence of the coronavirus in our lives.
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