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<p>The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 significantly affected passenger behaviour and changed travel habits. This paper aims to assess passenger mobility due to the pandemic based on an online questionnaire survey conducted in two countries, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. This paper focused on evaluating the importance rate of selected factors depending on the means of transport. We describe how the most frequently used means of transport (regular travel habits) affect the degree of importance of selected factors during COVID-19, including the journey to work and school. The Likert scale measuring method involves finance, comfort, sustainability, time, and safety as decisive factors, whereas the Kruskal-Wallis test examines proposed hypotheses. We demonstrated the contingency of the importance rate and the frequently used means of transport for commuting to work or school. The questionnaire ranks time and safety among the most important variables affecting the selection of transport means.</p>
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The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 significantly affected passenger behaviour and changed travel habits. This paper aims to assess passenger mobility due to the pandemic based on an online questionnaire survey conducted in two countries, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. This paper focused on evaluating the importance rate of selected factors depending on the means of transport. We describe how the most frequently used means of transport (regular travel habits) affect the degree of importance of selected factors during COVID-19, including the journey to work and school. The Likert scale measuring method involves finance, comfort, sustainability, time, and safety as decisive factors, whereas the Kruskal-Wallis test examines proposed hypotheses. We demonstrated the contingency of the importance rate and the frequently used means of transport for commuting to work or school. The questionnaire ranks time and safety among the most important variables affecting the selection of transport means.

Analysis of Passenger Behaviour During the Covid-19 Pandemic Situation

Department of Railway Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications

Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications

Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Informatics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications

Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem

LOGI – Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 significantly affected passenger behaviour and changed travel habits. This paper aims to assess passenger mobility due to...

Analysis of Passenger Behaviour During the Covid-19 Pandemic Situation

Online veröffentlicht: 23. Mai 2023

Seitenbereich: 203 - 214

Eingereicht: 24. Jan. 2023

Akzeptiert: 09. Feb. 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/logi-2023-0019

Schlüsselwörter
Public transport, transport means, travel factors, COVID-19, Kruskal-Wallis test

© 2023 Vladimíra Štefancová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Analysis of Passenger Behaviour During the Covid-19 Pandemic Situation

Online veröffentlicht: 23. Mai 2023

Seitenbereich: 203 - 214

Eingereicht: 24. Jan. 2023

Akzeptiert: 09. Feb. 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/logi-2023-0019

SchlüsselwörterPublic transport, transport means, travel factors, COVID-19, Kruskal-Wallis test

© 2023 Vladimíra Štefancová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Public transport, transport means, travel factors, COVID-19, Kruskal-Wallis test