The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced all modes of transportation. However, it is still unclear how the pandemic affected the demand for ridesourcing services and whether these effects varied between small towns and large cities. We analyzed over 220 million ride requests in the City of Chicago (population: 2.7 million), Illinois, and 52 thousand in the Town of Innisfil (population: 37 thousand), Ontario, to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ridesourcing demand in the two locations. Overall, the pandemic resulted in fewer trips in areas with higher proportions of seniors and more trips to parks and green spaces. Ridesourcing demand was adversely affected by the stringency index and COVID-19-related variables, and positively affected by vaccination rates. However, compared to Innisfil, ridesourcing services in Chicago experienced higher reductions in demand, were more affected by the number of hospitalizations and deaths, were less impacted by vaccination rates, and had lower recovery rates.

翻译：COVID-19大流行严重影响了所有运输方式,但是,这一流行病如何影响对骑车服务的需求,小城镇和大城市之间这些影响是否不同,仍然不清楚,我们分析了在安大略芝加哥市(人口:270万)、伊利诺伊州芝加哥市(人口:270万)和因尼斯菲勒市(人口:37 000)的2.2亿次骑车申请,以调查COVID-19大流行对两个地点的骑车需求的影响。总的来说,这一流行病导致在老年人比例较高的地区旅行的次数减少,前往公园和绿地的旅行次数增加。 紧凑指数和COVID-19相关变量对马车需求产生了不利影响,并受到疫苗接种率的积极影响。然而,与Innisfil公司相比,芝加哥的骑车服务需求下降幅度较高,受住院人数和死亡人数影响更大,受疫苗接种率影响较少,恢复率较低。