Adaptive travel behaviors to cope with covid-19 : A swedish qualitative study focusing on everyday leisure trips
(2021) In Sustainability (Switzerland) 13(23).- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a rapid change in travel behavior for different types of trips, including everyday social and recreational leisure trips. People have used adaptive travel behaviors to cope with the new circumstances for activities and transport. Due to the Swedish strategy focusing on more voluntary restrictions, people have had reason to consider which trips and activities to skip and which to keep. The overall aim of the study is to explore and deepen the knowledge about adaptive behaviors used and seek to understand its possible implications for future travel behavior change towards sustainable mobility through the use of qualitative interviews focusing on everyday leisure trips. The results illustrate how people... (More)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a rapid change in travel behavior for different types of trips, including everyday social and recreational leisure trips. People have used adaptive travel behaviors to cope with the new circumstances for activities and transport. Due to the Swedish strategy focusing on more voluntary restrictions, people have had reason to consider which trips and activities to skip and which to keep. The overall aim of the study is to explore and deepen the knowledge about adaptive behaviors used and seek to understand its possible implications for future travel behavior change towards sustainable mobility through the use of qualitative interviews focusing on everyday leisure trips. The results illustrate how people have used a range of adaptive behaviors to cope with the implications of the pandemic, with cancellation and change of transport mode being the ones most reflected upon by the interviewees. Further, the results reveal how the overall label “everyday leisure trips” in fact includes a variety of trip purposes that differ in terms of flexibility and importance and must thus be approached in different ways in transport policy measures.
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- author
- Strömblad, Emma LU ; Hiselius, Lena Winslott LU ; Rosqvist, Lena Smidfelt LU and Svensson, Helena LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-12-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adaptive travel behavior, COVID-19, Disruptive events, Everyday leisure travel, Social and recreational trips, Sustainable transport
- in
- Sustainability (Switzerland)
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 23
- article number
- 12979
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85119959707
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- DOI
- 10.3390/su132312979
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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