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It might be a van or a sedan instead of a big bus that is empty. Q: How do you see these hybrid systems working?Ī: There are micro transit services that are right-sized for a specific population. The experts are envisioning new business models that are more flexible in terms of more public/private partnerships. The Cares Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) gave $25 billion for public transit and more is needed. Q: With Muni and other systems dropping lines, will it create an incentive for private industry to enter mass transit?Ī: There is the opportunity for new business models to support public transportation. The riders tend to be essential workers and lower-income riders. Muni (San Francisco Municipal Railway) is carrying about 160,000 passengers a day, down from 700,000.

Q: How do you see Bay Area mass transit as it stands now?Ī: By the week of July 30, Bay Area public transit ridership had shown a 70% ridership decline.

She has been studying transit since completing her doctoral dissertation on Bay Area car sharing in the 1990s, and offered a glimpse of how our daily commutes might look as the pandemic continues to redefine much of our lives. Shaheen serves four UC campuses - Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and Los Angeles - as director of the UC Institute of Transportation Studies’ Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative. A range of policy options will be developed. It will describe the impact of COVID-19 on public transit and shared mobility in three time frames - 12 months, up to three years and up to six years. Results are due this fall, to be accompanied by webinars and a summarizing document that will be made public. The project is co-sponsored by the UC Institute of Transportation Studies and the National Transportation Research Board with additional funding by the ClimateWorks Foundation of San Francisco. Soon after mass transit in the Bay Area was all but shut down by the coronavirus, Susan Shaheen was hit by a thunderbolt: a national study was needed to chart the future of public transportation, and she would be the one to launch it.So the professor of transportation engineering at UC Berkeley went to her smartphone to begin texting and calling her contacts, enlisting 40 top experts from all aspects of industry and the economy to contribute to an academic research project titled “Scenario Planning Study: The Future of Public Transit and Shared Mobility.” Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle Show More Show Less Shaheen also co-directs the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) of the Institute of Transportation Studies at Berkeley.

Susan Shaheen, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and director of at UC Berkeley, at the Orinda BART station in Orinda, Calif., on Monday, August 17, 2020. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of3 Dr. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of3 Dr.