Merlin Gillard 🚋😷<p>Article just published last week (open access) with Monika Maciejewska & Wojciech Kębłowski:</p><p>We explore the geography of fare-free <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransport</span></a> (<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/FFPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FFPT</span></a>) in the United States: 259 urban <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transit</span></a> agencies (out of 400) suspended fares during the first 2 years of the Covid-19 pandemic.<br>At the end of 2021, more than 73 of them had kept free fares, on top of 29 that had existed before 2020.<br>1/3</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X25000049" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S1077291X25000049</span></a><br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/FreePublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePublicTransport</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/FareFreePublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FareFreePublicTransport</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/mobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mobility</span></a></p>