3 Sweden says Stockholm metro use reaches 83% of pre-pandemic level
Two years of pandemic seem to have left their mark on Stockholmers’ travel routines – metro travel in the capital has in recent weeks stopped at just over 80 percent of travel before the pandemic. It shows new aggregated and anonymised mobile data from Tre, which with the initiative “Job and entertainment indicator” during the entire pandemic analyzed how the Swedes moved and adapted to the authorities’ recommendations. Latest news about Stockholm metro find out below.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, many people disrupted public transport. For two years, new measures and recommendations have been interspersed with eased restrictions, something that has had a major impact on the movement pattern of public transport around the country. Through the so-called “Job and entertainment indicator”, the mobile operator Tre has throughout the pandemic continuously shared updated anonymized network data to report how Swedes have adapted their travel habits to the authorities’ recommendations.
In the last two years, metro travel has since fluctuated between just over 20 and 60 percent compared with before the pandemic, according to the mobile operator Tres’ survey of the metro stations T-centralen, Slussen and Hötorget in Stockholm.
At the end of 2021, metro travel began to increase again, to temporarily go down during the Christmas weekend. Thereafter, travel increased again during the first three months of 2022, but in recent months, travel has leveled off and stays at around 83 percent, compared with before the pandemic.
Two years of pandemic seem to have left their mark on Stockholmers’ travel routines, even though we have returned to some kind of normality. It remains to be seen if we stay on the plateau we see or if travel increases even further ahead, says Mårten Lundberg, communications director at Tre. stockholm metro
About the survey
To get a picture of what Stockholmers’ metro travel looks like, Tre shares aggregated and anonymised network and roaming data for how the company’s customers moved at T-centralen, Slussen and Hötorget during 2020-2021 and during the first 17 weeks of the year 2022.
