Psychological impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the mode choice behaviour: A hybrid choice modelling approach

Aaditya, Bh.; Rahul, T.M.

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.05.003

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“…Firstly, in view of sustainable mobility, strong measures are required to reduce the affinity towards private cars which has increased during Covid-19 ( Eisenmann et al, 2021 ). This should include investing in high quality walking and cycling infrastructure, improving the ambience of such spaces through planting greenery and encouraging people to work from home ( Aaditya & Rahul, 2021 ; Y. Zhang & Fricker, 2021 ).…”

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“…It is most likely that people's attitude towards mode choice now and in the near future will be influenced by their experiences of perceived comfort and safety during the pandemic ( de Haas et al, 2020 ; Eisenmann et al, 2021 ; Przybylowski et al, 2021 ). This will have consequential impact on how transportation modelling is carried out, including the manner in which assumptions regarding mode choice are accounted for ( Aaditya & Rahul, 2021 ). Hence, it is important to understand if the mobility experienced during the course of the pandemic bears any relationship with the incidence of Covid-19.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing the impact of mobility on the incidence of COVID-19 in Dublin City

Manzira

Charly

Caulfield

2022

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Covid-19 has had a major impact on the transport systems around the world. Several transport-related policies were implemented in short period of time to contain the spread of the pandemic. These policies had a major influence on travel behaviour and people's perception towards the safety of different modes of transport, especially public transport, thus affecting several sustainable mobility initiatives. To build a resilient and sustainable transport system and to rebuild trust in public transport, it is important to understand the role of mobility in the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. The present study investigates the relationship between mobility and reported Covid-19 infections using data from Dublin city. Different modes of transport including traffic volume, bus passengers, pedestrians and cyclists were considered in the study during a forty week period. Multiple scenarios involving two-week lag and three-week lag of mobility data and Covid-19 infections were considered in building statistical models. Results showed that, 36.2 % of the reported Covid-19 infections after a two-week lag and 33% of the infections after a three-week lag can be explained using the level of mobility alone. The study further discusses the policy implications and strategies for ensuring a resilient and sustainable transport system.

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Assessing the impact of mobility on the incidence of COVID-19 in Dublin City

Manzira

Charly

Caulfield

2022

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…For example, passengers' satisfaction on public transport in China was found to be influenced by passengers' perceived safety, which was negatively affected by anxiety and psychological distance [24]; intentions of air travel to destinations with travel-bubble policy were negatively affected by such factors as concern of COVID-19, anxiety of the situation, and risk attitudes [25]; and public transport mode choice was largely influenced by the passenger's perceived safety. For instance, in India, it was positively affected by the social distancing measures, congestion management, and sanitizing frequency, and also significantly affected by age, gender, and occupation of the passengers [26]. Travel decision and mode choice for educational trip in an Italian university campus was found to be affected by that mode's attributes and the traveler's perception of risk on alternative modes implementing COVID-19 countermeasures, such as strict physical distancing, hand sanitizing gel supply, face mask usage, frequent vehicle sanitization, etc.…”

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“…Likewise, for air transportation, a study in Korea found that decision to make an air travel again after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides would be influenced by requirement for isolation and quarantine at the destination, circumstances at the destination, social atmosphere with regards to overseas travel, and level of disinfection measures employed in the aviation service sector [31]. In these studies, the analysis techniques used were dependent on the purpose of the analysis as well as on the definition of the confidence of travel, ranging from descriptive statistics [28] to multivariate analyses [24][25][26]30,31] where exploratory factor analysis was used to discover the underlying structure of indicators of the constructs such as perceived safety with respect to several countermeasures. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the inter-relationship between the constructs while structural equation model (SEM) was employed to understand the causal effect on travel confidence [24,25,31].…”

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COVID-19 Countermeasures and Passengers’ Confidence of Urban Rail Travel in Bangkok

2021

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Rail transit systems around the world have been suffering from heavily reduced ridership due to reduced capacity for social distancing and passengers’ concern over the risk of COVID-19 infection. Various countermeasures were implemented to reduce the COVID-19 risk so that passengers felt safe to travel on rail. The objectives of this study were to evaluate COVID-19 countermeasures of Bangkok’s urban rail from passengers’ viewpoints and examine its influence on passenger’s confidence. The background of the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand and the rail countermeasures implemented in Bangkok were summarized. The data were obtained from an interview survey of 1105 railway passengers conducted at the stations during the second wave of the pandemic. Factor analyses and structural equation modeling were conducted. The results revealed that social distancing was not satisfied by the passengers but adversely caused inconvenience and increased infection risk when the station or rail were congested. On the other hand, the passenger temperature check, face mask enforcement, and hand sanitization countermeasures were found to highly and positively contribute to passengers’ confidence. Contact tracing application was also found to raise awareness and confidence. The findings provided insights for rail authorities and related agencies to effectively implement the countermeasures that would be practically and financially sustainable.

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“…We add to a rapidly growing literature on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transportation (10)(11)(12). First, it allows us to follow up on a survey conducted in the early stage of the pandemic and observe how travel behaviors and attitudes have changed over a ten month period (7)(8)(9)13).…”

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Facing the future of transit ridership: which riders bought a car; who is planning on riding less?

Palm¹,

Allen²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

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Public transit agencies face a transformed landscape of rider demand and political support as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. We explore people’s motivations for returning to or avoiding public transit a year into the pandemic. We draw on a March 2021 follow up survey of over 1,900 people who rode transit regularly prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, and who took part in a prior survey on the topic in May, 2020. We model how transit demand has changed due to the pandemic, and investigate how this relates to changes in automobile ownership and its desirability. We find that pre-COVID frequent transit users between the ages of 18-29, a part of the so-called “Gen Z,” and recent immigrants are more attracted to driving due to the pandemic, with the latter group more likely to have actually purchased a vehicle. Getting COVID-19 or living with someone who did is also a strong and positive predictor of buying a car and anticipating less transit use after the pandemic. Our results suggest that COVID-19 heightened the attractiveness of auto ownership among transit riders likely to eventually purchase cars anyways (immigrants, twentysomethings), at least in the North American context. We also conclude that getting COVID-19 or living with someone who did is a significant and positive predictor of having bought a car. Future research should consider how the experiencing of having COVID-19 has transformed some travelers’ views, values, and behaviour.

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Psychological impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the mode choice behaviour: A hybrid choice modelling approach

Cited by 76 publications

References 55 publications

Assessing the impact of mobility on the incidence of COVID-19 in Dublin City

Assessing the impact of mobility on the incidence of COVID-19 in Dublin City

COVID-19 Countermeasures and Passengers’ Confidence of Urban Rail Travel in Bangkok

Facing the future of transit ridership: which riders bought a car; who is planning on riding less?

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