ABSTRACT
The pandemic of COVID-19 paced up an unseen disruption in urban mobility patterns across the country, inspiring both non-permanent and tentatively enduring transformations. This study examines the evolving landscape of urban transportation in India's post COVID-19 era, focusing on how changing work patterns, health considerations, and economic factors have influenced urban mobility. Verifying the insights with the evidences collected from major cities of India, the paper focuses on identifying distinct trends of mobility that evolved during the time of recovery from the effects of the pandemic, and these trends may count as- increased usage of personal transport, enhancing demand of active mobility infrastructure, paced-up transport services’ digitalization, more focus on transit-oriented development, and higher emphasis on resilient mobility mechanisms. The analysis of the facts and factors reveal that these shifts hold major implications for future transport planning and strategies of investment in infrastructure development. Major recommendations include flexible policy decisions’ implementations for the purpose of accommodating hybrid transportation patterns, active mobility infrastructure should be given priority, smart mobility integration shall be accelerated, adopting inclusive design principle, and transport planning must involve pandemic resilience.
