ABSTRACT

This article analyses the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown and mobility restrictions on interurban traffic accidents in Catalonia, Spain, and how accident numbers and their spatiality changed during the post-lockdown and beginning of the ‘new normal’ period. The authors compared the number of interurban traffic accidents in 2020 with those in the four previous years for the entire period (1 January – 30 September 2020) and for three different subperiods: pre-lockdown, lockdown, and post-lockdown. The results indicate a reduction of almost two-thirds for the entire lockdown period but of more than three-quarters for the hard-lockdown period (first seven weeks). There was an evident rebound in the number of accidents, starting before the end of the lockdown, within a context of flexibilization of mobility restrictions. In September 2020, the number of traffic accidents was the same as in September in the years 2016–2019. The authors conclude that several short-term benefits related to mobility restrictions following the COVID-19 outbreak were lost rapidly in the ‘new normal’ period. They also conclude that the results indicate that some tourist and rural areas have suffered a particular rebound in numbers of accidents during the post-lockdown period.

摘要

本文分析了 COVID-19 封锁和出行限制对西班牙加泰罗尼亚城际交通事故的影响，以及封锁后和“新常态”时期开始期间事故数量及其空间分布的变化。作者将 2020 年整个时期（2020 年 1 月 1 日至 9 月 30 日）以及三个不同子时期（封锁前、封锁和封锁后）的城际交通事故数量与前四年的数量进行了比较。结果表明，整个封锁期间减少了近三分之二，但硬封锁期间（前七周）减少了四分之三以上。在行动限制灵活化的背景下，从封锁结束之前开始，事故数量明显回升。2020年9月，2016-2019年交通事故起数与9月持平。作者得出的结论是，与 COVID-19 爆发后的流动限制相关的一些短期好处在“新常态”时期迅速消失。他们还得出结论，结果表明，在封锁结束后，一些旅游区和农村地区的事故数量出现了特别反弹。