Using Data to Understand a New Transportation Reality
summary
StreetLight Data uses StreetLight Insight to compute daily travel from billions of device pings and finds total U.S. VMT down starting March 12 with big county-level variation: larger drops in dense, high‑income urban counties and smaller drops in rural or manufacturing‑heavy counties. A BCG‑linked warehouse analysis shows parcel activity spikes then falls while USPS residential deliveries keep rising. New metrics include curb‑demand models and 40,000 empty freeway seats versus a few hundred empty transit seats, prompting rapid, iterative planning rather than decade‑long forecasts.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 7:14E-Commerce / Delivery Impact Varies (Collaborative Study with BCG)
- 10:54Population Projections
- 12:10Pre-COVID-19 Travel Market Trends
- 13:06Travel Demand Model Limitations
- 14:02Travel Pattern
- 14:53Pre-COVID-19 Transportation Problems
- 15:38Problem or Symptom?
- 15:56Wrong Problem
- 16:51Expectations
- 17:23A Pandemic Reset...
- 19:33Flattening the Congestion Curve
- 23:09Breaking Waves
- 24:39Accelerating Waves
- 27:51Gathering Waves
- 29:21Fast Responses
- 30:16Looking Forward
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