Amin Shohel, Adah Jeremiah Uredo
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.
Cities. 2022 Dec;131:103890. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103890. Epub 2022 Aug 4.
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.
在新冠疫情期间,因工作需要而必须出行的关键工作者面临着极端的健康和心理影响,同时还承受着普遍的经济困难。本文运用贝叶斯回归分析来确定影响关键工作者和其他通勤者在尼日利亚阿布贾和拉各斯市实施新冠疫情出行限制期间乘坐公共巴士进行必要出行决策的因素。新冠疫情的心理、政策和运营影响是在出行限制期间乘坐公共巴士进行必要出行的主要因素。关键工作者更频繁地避开乘客上车频率较高的公交线路以避免新冠病毒传播,但其他人由于难以获得基本商品和服务而无法避开这些繁忙线路。新冠疫情不仅改变了日常通勤者和关键工作者的出行行为,还加剧了尼日利亚拉各斯和阿布贾市现有的交通问题。