Analysis of Road Transport Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria and its Policy Implications.
Transp Res Rec
; 2677(4): 851-864, 2023 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2317817
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a serious global health challenge to humanity in recent times. It has caused fundamental disruptions to the global transportation system, supply chains, and trade. The impact on the transport sector resulting from lockdowns has led to huge losses in revenue. At the moment there are limited studies of the road transport sector response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper fills this gap using Nigeria as a case study area. A mixed method involving both qualitative and quantitative research was employed. Principal Component Analysis and Multiple Criteria Analysis were used to analyze the data. The results suggest that road transport operators strongly (90.7%) believe that 51 adopted new technologies/innovations, processes, and procedures will keep them and passengers safe from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. A breakdown shows that observing the lockdown directive is perceived by road transport operators as the most effective response to the pandemic. The breakdown continues in descending order thus COVID-19 safety protocols, environmental sanitation, and promotion of hygiene, information technology, facemask, and social distancing. Others are public enlightenment, palliative, inclusion, and mass media. This indicates that non-pharmaceutical measures are very effective in the fight against the pandemic. This finding leverages support for the application of non-pharmaceutical guidelines in containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.
air quality and green house gas mitigation; all-door; bus transit systems; general; planning and analysis; policy analysis; pricing; pricing elasticity of demand; pricing models; public transportation; safety; safety planning; structural equation modeling; sustainability and resilience; traffic modeling; transportation and sustainability; transportation demand management; transportation safety management systems
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Qualitative research
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English
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Transp Res Rec
Year:
2023
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Article
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03611981221092387
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