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Wishful thinking? Addressing the long-term implications of COVID-19 for transport in Nigeria

With their inherent economic and infrastructure challenges, developing countries must assess commuters’ travel behaviour and establish whether consumers’ desire for sustainable transportation is feasible or merely wishful thinking. Using a qualitative research design, these issues were explored base...

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Autor principal: Mogaji, Emmanuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9761280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103206
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description With their inherent economic and infrastructure challenges, developing countries must assess commuters’ travel behaviour and establish whether consumers’ desire for sustainable transportation is feasible or merely wishful thinking. Using a qualitative research design, these issues were explored based on semi-structured interviews conducted with 72 participants across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Findings suggest that the desires and dreams of the commuters are great, and they want to reduce their journeys, work from home, and do online shopping. However, when they consider the inherent challenges, they can only hope for a better future. COVID-19 has impacted the ownership or use of motorised and non-motorised transport, but this is also influenced by affordability, convenience, and awareness. Likewise, there are long-term effects on home and work location choices, but this is further influenced by the large informal economy of the country, job accessibility and the infrastructural developments across the country.
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spelling pubmed-97612802022-12-19 Wishful thinking? Addressing the long-term implications of COVID-19 for transport in Nigeria Mogaji, Emmanuel Transp Res D Transp Environ Article With their inherent economic and infrastructure challenges, developing countries must assess commuters’ travel behaviour and establish whether consumers’ desire for sustainable transportation is feasible or merely wishful thinking. Using a qualitative research design, these issues were explored based on semi-structured interviews conducted with 72 participants across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Findings suggest that the desires and dreams of the commuters are great, and they want to reduce their journeys, work from home, and do online shopping. However, when they consider the inherent challenges, they can only hope for a better future. COVID-19 has impacted the ownership or use of motorised and non-motorised transport, but this is also influenced by affordability, convenience, and awareness. Likewise, there are long-term effects on home and work location choices, but this is further influenced by the large informal economy of the country, job accessibility and the infrastructural developments across the country. The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-04 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9761280/ /pubmed/36570333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103206 Text en © 2022 The Author 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.
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