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作者

Shohel Amin;Jeremiah Uredo Adah

来源

CITIES,Vol.131,Issue1,Article 103890

语言

英文

关键字

COVID-19 lockdown;Travel behaviour;Key workers;Essential trips;Bayesian model

作者单位

School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Sir John Laing Building, Room No. JL141, Coventry University, Priory St, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 5FB, United Kingdom;School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Sir John Laing Building, Coventry University, Priory St, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 5FB, United Kingdom;School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Sir John Laing Building, Room No. JL141, Coventry University, Priory St, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 5FB, United Kingdom;School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Sir John Laing Building, Coventry University, Priory St, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 5FB, United Kingdom

摘要

The key workers, required to continue to travel for essential works during the COVID-19 pandemic, are subjected to extreme health and psychological implications along with prevailing financial hardship. This paper applies the Bayesian regression analysis to determine the factors affecting the decision of key workers and other commuters on riding public buses for essential trips during the COVID-19 restrictions on movement at Abuja and Lagos cities in Nigeria. The psychological, policy and operational effects of COVID-19 are the major factors of riding public buses for essential trips during the COVID-19 restrictions on movement. The key workers are staying out the bus routes with higher frequency of passenger boarding to avoid the COVID-19 transmission but other people were unable to avoid these busy routes because of poor accessibility to essential goods and services. The COVID-19 pandemic not only changes the travel behaviour of daily commuters and key workers but also aggravates the existing transportation problems at Lagos and Abuja cities in Nigeria.