  Coronavirus, which emerged in China towards the end of 2019 and subsequently
influenced the whole world, has changed the daily lives of people to a great
extent. In many parts of the world, in both cities and rural areas, people have
been forced to stay home weeks. They have only been allowed to leave home for
fundamental needs such as food and health needs, and most started to work from
home. In this period, very few people, including essential workers, had to
leave their homes. Avoiding social contact is proven to be the best method to
reduce the spread of the novel Coronavirus. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic,
people are adapting their behavior to this new reality, and it may change the
type of public events people perform and how people go to these activities.
Consumer behaviors have been altered during the pandemic. While people try to
avoid gatherings, they also stayed away from mass transport modes and turned to
private modes of transportation more -- private cars, private taxis and
bike-sharing systems; even walking became more popular. In this study, we
attempt to analyze how the use of bicycling has changed -- pre- and
post-pandemic -- using open data sources and investigating how socio-economics
characteristics affect this change. The results showed that average income,
average education level, and total population are the most crucial variables
for the Pandemic to Transition period and the Transition to the Normalization
period.
