Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mobility in ten countries and associated perceived risk for all transport modes

Autor: Taha Hossein Rashidi, Benan Shu, Ali Foroutan Mirhosseini, Sahra Naseri, Shubham Goswami, Kasun P. Wijayaratna, Inge Hoff, Prince Peprah, Zhuangzhuang Liu, Baowen Lou, Solomon Adomako, Montasir M Abbas, Diego Maria Barbieri, Navid Ghasemi, Yaning Qiao, Bhaven Naik, Kevin Fang, Kevin Chang, Brij Maharaj, Lei Yu, Gaurav Sikka, Arunabha Banerjee, Nithin Agarwal, Andrew Tucker, Akshay Gupta, Louisa Lam, Fusong Wang, Cang Hui, Amir Hessami, Daniela Antunes Lessa, Marco Passavanti, Hao Chen
Přispěvatelé: Barbieri, Diego Maria, Lou, Baowen, Passavanti, Marco, Hui, Cang, Hoff, Inge, Lessa, Daniela Antune, Sikka, Gaurav, Chang, Kevin, Gupta, Akshay, Fang, Kevin, Banerjee, Arunabha, Maharaj, Brij, Lam, Louisa, Ghasemi, Navid, Naik, Bhaven, Wang, Fusong, Foroutan Mirhosseini, Ali, Naseri, Sahra, Liu, Zhuangzhuang, Qiao, Yaning, Tucker, Andrew, Wijayaratna, Kasun, Peprah, Prince, Adomako, Solomon, Yu, Lei, Goswami, Shubham, Chen, Hao, Shu, Benan, Hessami, Amir, Abbas, Montasir, Agarwal, Nithin, Rashidi, Taha Hossein
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Viral Diseases
Index (economics)
Epidemiology
Social Sciences
Transportation
Surveys
Iran
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Geographical Locations
Medical Conditions
Economic inequality
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Pandemic
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public and Occupational Health
media_common
Travel
Multidisciplinary
Geography
05 social sciences
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Infectious Diseases
Research Design
Public transport
Regression Analysis
Engineering and Technology
Medicine
Research Article
Asia
Inequality
General Science & Technology
media_common.quotation_subject
Science
Research and Analysis Methods
Human Geography
0502 economics and business
Humans
Pandemics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
050210 logistics & transportation
Survey Research
business.industry
VDP::Technology: 500
Individual mobility
COVID-19
Covid 19
Health Care
Risk perception
Medical Risk Factors
People and Places
Earth Sciences
Human Mobility
TRIPS architecture
Demographic economics
covid19 mobility restriction
reduced mobility
travel behaviours
urban transport
perceived risk
Business
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 2, p e0245886 (2021)
PLOS ONE
e0245886
PLoS ONE
16:e0245886
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: The restrictive measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered sudden massive changes to travel behaviors of people all around the world. This study examines the individual mobility patterns for all transport modes (walk, bicycle, motorcycle, car driven alone, car driven in company, bus, subway, tram, train, airplane) before and during the restrictions adopted in ten countries on six continents: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States. This cross-country study also aims at understanding the predictors of protective behaviors related to the transport sector and COVID-19. Findings hinge upon an online survey conducted in May 2020 (N = 9,394). The empirical results quantify tremendous disruptions for both commuting and non-commuting travels, highlighting substantial reductions in the frequency of all types of trips and use of all modes. In terms of potential virus spread, airplanes and buses are perceived to be the riskiest transport modes, while avoidance of public transport is consistently found across the countries. According to the Protection Motivation Theory, the study sheds new light on the fact that two indicators, namely income inequality, expressed as Gini index, and the reported number of deaths due to COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, aggravate respondents’ perceptions. This research indicates that socio-economic inequality and morbidity are not only related to actual health risks, as well documented in the relevant literature, but also to the perceived risks. These findings document the global impact of the COVID-19 crisis as well as provide guidance for transportation practitioners in developing future strategies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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