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IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, a serie of free webinars co-organised by Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute and the CITE: # 3 on July 22.
The Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment (CITE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announces a series of three webinars focusing on “The Impacts of COVID-19 on Tele-Activities, Travel and Purchasing Behaviors.” These free webinars will be held weekly at 11AM EST beginning on July 8, 2020.
Program Overview
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced tremendous impacts on both passenger and freight transportation systems, the behavior of transportation users, and consumer purchases. Some of the most important changes have taken place in purchasing patterns, ecommerce usage, and the use of tele-activities. Among other unprecedented effects, the COVID-19 pandemic has led hundreds of millions of people across the world to:
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the transportation group at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been collecting behavioral data to elucidate the underpinnings of these behavioral changes, quantify their extent, identify influencing factors, gain insight in-to their permanence, and help formulate effective policies to foster beneficial changes and mitigate negative ones.
A trio of webinars where preliminary findings of this ongoing research effort will be shared with the practitioner and research community at large are in this series to present the results for the first waves of data. The webinars are as follows:
1 - ...On Purchasing ofcritical supplies: roots and measures to mitigate "panic buying"
2 - ...On Person-trips and tele-activities (PART 1)
3 - ...On Person-trips and tele-activities (PART 2)
Details:
Event: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Tele-Activities, Travel and Purchasing Behaviors
When:
1 - Wednesday July 8, 2020, 11 AM EST ... On Purchasing ofcritical supplies: roots and measures to mitigate "panic buying"
2 - Wednesday July 15, 2020, 11 AM EST ... On Person-trips and tele-activities (PART 1)
3 - Wednesday July 22, 2020, 11 AM EST ... On Person-trips and tele-activities (PART 2)
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