Daichi Yanagisawa

Explaining COVID-19 Tokyo metro station-level ridership disruption and recovery: pre-pandemic demand, built environment and centrality

COVID-19 caused severe and uneven metro ridership declines. This study examines station-level annual ridership change in Tokyo from 2020 to 2023 relative to 2019, integrating pre-pandemic demand, built environment, and network centrality. Its main contribution is to identify how...