Should I Stay or Should I Go? Risk Perception and Use of Local Public Transport During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: In light of the climate crisis, the transport sector needs to be urgently transformed and the number of users of local public transport needs to be increased. However, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected public transport with passenger numbers declining up to 80% in Germany. In addition to a general decrease in mobility during lockdowns, we can observe a shift in decision-making in regards to modes of transportation, with public transport losing out. We argue that this change in behavior can be explained by the fact that people tend to overestimate the risk of COVID-19 transmission in public transport. In order to understand risk perception in users and non-users of public transport during the pandemic, a representative survey (N = 918) in a German major city w

SUBMITTER: Helfers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9306558 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature