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Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India
COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the transportation sector across the world. Implementation of lockdown (that includes restricted travel activities) is a prevention strategy executed by various governments to minimize the spread of COVID-19. India went into complete lockdown from 25th Ma...
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Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2021.02.002 |
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author | Pawar, Digvijay S. Yadav, Ankit Kumar Choudhary, Pushpa Velaga, Nagendra R. |
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description | COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the transportation sector across the world. Implementation of lockdown (that includes restricted travel activities) is a prevention strategy executed by various governments to minimize the spread of COVID-19. India went into complete lockdown from 25th March 2020; however, change in commuter’s travel behavior was observed from the third week of March (termed as transition to lockdown) due to pandemic fear. In total 1945 participants participated in the travel behaviour survey and their responses with respect to work-based and non-work-based trips during transition period were analysed to understand their adaptation towards COVID-19. The study also attempted to quantify the effects of influencing factors which can explain change in the commuters’ travel behaviour. The findings revealed that one-year increment in traveller’s age had 2% reduced probability of no travel during transition than pre-transition. For non-work-related travel, chances of lower travel frequency were significantly greater during the transition period as compared to pre-transition. Compared to the non-essential trips, the chances of reduced travel frequency for the essential trips were found to be lower by 92%. By examining these behavioural changes, the present study aims to assist the policymakers in understanding the dynamics of fluctuating travel demand with respect to trip purpose during pandemic situations like COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-85614162021-11-02 Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India Pawar, Digvijay S. Yadav, Ankit Kumar Choudhary, Pushpa Velaga, Nagendra R. Travel Behav Soc Article COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the transportation sector across the world. Implementation of lockdown (that includes restricted travel activities) is a prevention strategy executed by various governments to minimize the spread of COVID-19. India went into complete lockdown from 25th March 2020; however, change in commuter’s travel behavior was observed from the third week of March (termed as transition to lockdown) due to pandemic fear. In total 1945 participants participated in the travel behaviour survey and their responses with respect to work-based and non-work-based trips during transition period were analysed to understand their adaptation towards COVID-19. The study also attempted to quantify the effects of influencing factors which can explain change in the commuters’ travel behaviour. The findings revealed that one-year increment in traveller’s age had 2% reduced probability of no travel during transition than pre-transition. For non-work-related travel, chances of lower travel frequency were significantly greater during the transition period as compared to pre-transition. Compared to the non-essential trips, the chances of reduced travel frequency for the essential trips were found to be lower by 92%. By examining these behavioural changes, the present study aims to assist the policymakers in understanding the dynamics of fluctuating travel demand with respect to trip purpose during pandemic situations like COVID-19. Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-07 2021-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8561416/ /pubmed/34745888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2021.02.002 Text en © 2021 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Pawar, Digvijay S. Yadav, Ankit Kumar Choudhary, Pushpa Velaga, Nagendra R. Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India |
title | Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India |
title_full | Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India |
title_fullStr | Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India |
title_short | Modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic in India |
title_sort | modelling work- and non-work-based trip patterns during transition to lockdown period of covid-19 pandemic in india |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2021.02.002 |
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