A study into COVID-19 pandemic impacts elderly decision on shopping trip

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to reconnoiter factors that affect travel behavior and decision making for a shopping trip of the elderly during the before and intra that COVID-19 pandemic. This is a quantitative that intends to determine key factors that affect elderly behavior in terms of private and public mode transportation. The study collected data from 400 elderly people of Thai nationality. Data was collected through Cochran unknown sample size computation from a population of people who were aged sixty and over in Thailand. Exploratory factor analysis was practiced for data analysis and grouping variables by rotation varimax that appear three main factors which were comfort travel;factors arising from the transportation service, cautious;the effects of external stimuli that raise concerns about the spread of the epidemic and reliability;travel convenience and assurance. The findings should be useful and helpful data source in term of doing research development, planning and in any purposes for transportation department or any organization. © 2022 IEEE.