Changes in People’s Mobility Behavior in Greece after the COVID-19 Outbreak

Farrukh Baig; Konstantinos Kirytopoulos; Jaeyoung Lee; Evangelos Tsamilis; Ruizhi Mao; Panagiotis Ntzeremes

doi:10.3390/su14063567

Changes in People’s Mobility Behavior in Greece after the COVID-19 Outbreak

Farrukh Baig
, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos
, Jaeyoung Lee^*
, Evangelos Tsamilis
, Ruizhi Mao
, Panagiotis Ntzeremes

^*Corresponding author for this work

Interdisciplinary Research Center for Sustainable Energy Systems

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

30 Scopus citations

Abstract

The lockdown and social distancing policies to reduce COVID-19 spread and perceived safety threats of COVID-19 significantly affected people’s travel behavior. Greece has been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and people’s mobility behavior has been greatly affected. This study aims at: (1) exploring the variations in individuals’ trip frequencies by mode and purpose before and after the COVID-19 outbreak; (2) understanding the effects of individual differences (i.e., sociodemographic details) and perceptions towards COVID-19 (i.e., the perceived threats of COVID-19) on people’s mobility behavior changes after the outbreak; (3) underlining the individuals’ perceptions of the COVID-19 threat on the willingness of public transportation usage. Overall, 403 responses were collected in late 2020. A series of random parameter Probit modeling results reveal multiple individual and perception factors affecting the changes in mobility behavior in Greece. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that perceived COVID-19 threats affect the attitudes and subjective norms towards people’s intentions to use public transportation. The results from this study provide valuable insights for transportation authorities to develop effective strategies to manage traffic during the spread of disease for a possible future epidemic.

Original language	English
Article number	3567
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	14
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063567
State	Published - 1 Mar 2022

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

COVID-19
mobility change
pandemic
public perceptions
sustainable transportation
travel behavior

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Access to Document

10.3390/su14063567

Cite this

@article{499aedec1c0243b0b92737f15b379783,

title = "Changes in People{\textquoteright}s Mobility Behavior in Greece after the COVID-19 Outbreak",

abstract = "The lockdown and social distancing policies to reduce COVID-19 spread and perceived safety threats of COVID-19 significantly affected people{\textquoteright}s travel behavior. Greece has been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and people{\textquoteright}s mobility behavior has been greatly affected. This study aims at: (1) exploring the variations in individuals{\textquoteright} trip frequencies by mode and purpose before and after the COVID-19 outbreak; (2) understanding the effects of individual differences (i.e., sociodemographic details) and perceptions towards COVID-19 (i.e., the perceived threats of COVID-19) on people{\textquoteright}s mobility behavior changes after the outbreak; (3) underlining the individuals{\textquoteright} perceptions of the COVID-19 threat on the willingness of public transportation usage. Overall, 403 responses were collected in late 2020. A series of random parameter Probit modeling results reveal multiple individual and perception factors affecting the changes in mobility behavior in Greece. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that perceived COVID-19 threats affect the attitudes and subjective norms towards people{\textquoteright}s intentions to use public transportation. The results from this study provide valuable insights for transportation authorities to develop effective strategies to manage traffic during the spread of disease for a possible future epidemic.",

keywords = "COVID-19, mobility change, pandemic, public perceptions, sustainable transportation, travel behavior",

author = "Farrukh Baig and Konstantinos Kirytopoulos and Jaeyoung Lee and Evangelos Tsamilis and Ruizhi Mao and Panagiotis Ntzeremes",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).",

year = "2022",

month = mar,

day = "1",

doi = "10.3390/su14063567",

language = "English",

volume = "14",

journal = "Sustainability (Switzerland)",

issn = "2071-1050",

publisher = "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)",

number = "6",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Changes in People’s Mobility Behavior in Greece after the COVID-19 Outbreak

AU - Baig, Farrukh

AU - Kirytopoulos, Konstantinos

AU - Lee, Jaeyoung

AU - Tsamilis, Evangelos

AU - Mao, Ruizhi

AU - Ntzeremes, Panagiotis

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

PY - 2022/3/1

Y1 - 2022/3/1

N2 - The lockdown and social distancing policies to reduce COVID-19 spread and perceived safety threats of COVID-19 significantly affected people’s travel behavior. Greece has been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and people’s mobility behavior has been greatly affected. This study aims at: (1) exploring the variations in individuals’ trip frequencies by mode and purpose before and after the COVID-19 outbreak; (2) understanding the effects of individual differences (i.e., sociodemographic details) and perceptions towards COVID-19 (i.e., the perceived threats of COVID-19) on people’s mobility behavior changes after the outbreak; (3) underlining the individuals’ perceptions of the COVID-19 threat on the willingness of public transportation usage. Overall, 403 responses were collected in late 2020. A series of random parameter Probit modeling results reveal multiple individual and perception factors affecting the changes in mobility behavior in Greece. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that perceived COVID-19 threats affect the attitudes and subjective norms towards people’s intentions to use public transportation. The results from this study provide valuable insights for transportation authorities to develop effective strategies to manage traffic during the spread of disease for a possible future epidemic.

AB - The lockdown and social distancing policies to reduce COVID-19 spread and perceived safety threats of COVID-19 significantly affected people’s travel behavior. Greece has been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and people’s mobility behavior has been greatly affected. This study aims at: (1) exploring the variations in individuals’ trip frequencies by mode and purpose before and after the COVID-19 outbreak; (2) understanding the effects of individual differences (i.e., sociodemographic details) and perceptions towards COVID-19 (i.e., the perceived threats of COVID-19) on people’s mobility behavior changes after the outbreak; (3) underlining the individuals’ perceptions of the COVID-19 threat on the willingness of public transportation usage. Overall, 403 responses were collected in late 2020. A series of random parameter Probit modeling results reveal multiple individual and perception factors affecting the changes in mobility behavior in Greece. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that perceived COVID-19 threats affect the attitudes and subjective norms towards people’s intentions to use public transportation. The results from this study provide valuable insights for transportation authorities to develop effective strategies to manage traffic during the spread of disease for a possible future epidemic.

KW - COVID-19

KW - mobility change

KW - pandemic

KW - public perceptions

KW - sustainable transportation

KW - travel behavior

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85126931566

U2 - 10.3390/su14063567

DO - 10.3390/su14063567

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85126931566

SN - 2071-1050

VL - 14

JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)

JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)

IS - 6

M1 - 3567

ER -

Changes in People’s Mobility Behavior in Greece after the COVID-19 Outbreak

Abstract

Bibliographical note

UN SDGs

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this