Various measures were recommended or imposed by the governments to control spread of COVID-19. Travel behaviors are significantly influenced due such measures. However, people have various travel needs ranging from grocery shopping work. This study examines changes that occurred in behavior COVID-19 pandemic. Data collected through an online questionnaire survey included questions on trip purpose, mode choice, distance traveled, and frequency trips before during 1203 responses countries...

The outbreak of infectious diseases affects people’s lifestyles significantly, as they undertake fewer outdoor activities a protective measure and to follow government orders restricted movements. This paper reviewed the scientific literature related transport gain insights into managing such circumstances. outcomes indicate that sector has two-fold role during diseases: controlling spread infection assessing impact reduced on sector. It was found local international travel restrictions, if...

A sharp decline in public transport use has been reported worldwide since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. As virus spreads through close contacts, particularly closed environments, vehicles could be considered as hotspots for its transmission. However, operations cannot entirely stopped many people developing countries rely on them their travel needs. This study aims to provide insights into people's mode choices during Data, i.e., 1,516 complete survey responses, were obtained a...

Public transport use has drastically declined during the COVID-19 pandemic because virus spreads through close contact with infected people and contaminated surfaces, especially in closed-environments. Evidence suggests that following necessary safety guidelines can limit spread of virus, however, non-compliance to precautionary measures been reported widely. Ignoring may lead quick transmission since public vehicles generally resemble This study explores people’s intentions while adhering...

This study aims to identify the travelers' attitudes and preferences towards use of public transport during COVID-19 through Norm-Activation Model (NAM). A questionnaire survey was designed assess traveler's awareness, sense responsibility, moral obligations comply with safety norms or guidelines while using in Lahore, Pakistan. The Structural Equation Modeling method applied analyze collected 1516 complete responses. results measurement equations confirmed association between observed...

Schools are major trip generators in urban areas and school trips may largely contribute to the congestion, particularly during morning peak hours. This study investigates home-to-school mode choices Kandy city, which is a city Sri Lanka. The data were collected through questionnaire survey distributed among junior, lower senior, upper senior students of ten schools located 2015. School choices, that comprise several common travel modes Lanka, i.e., walking, public bus, van, private vehicles...

Understanding pedestrian walking characteristics is important for the planning and design of mass gathering places day-to-day activities as well emergency evacuations. The optimization architectural designs properly managing crowds at public buildings built environment essential to ensure safety efficiency crowd dynamics. Most previous empirical theoretical studies highlight behavior a whole system (macroscopic behavior) or interpersonal microscopic interactions within crowd. A major gap in...

Driving simulators have become an effective tool in road safety research. In recent years, the validity of raised debates concerning extant to which driving simulator resembles reality. Different types with different characteristics been developed study driver behavior, however, fidelity and reliability such systems are questionable if no proper validation is conducted. Regarding visual aspect, can be assessed based on field view screens. Drivers' speed perception lateral position were...

The characteristics of drivers vary from one individual to another and culture another, leading distinct driving behaviors exhibited by different drivers. This study aims explore drivers' car-following during tailgating situations using the data collected through a simulator experiment conducted at Qatar University. Preliminary outcomes this explained that reaction times do not significantly between males females (of 20 30 years old) even though showed shorter than males. Furthermore,...

Reliability of many pedestrian modelling and simulation tools is questionable, particularly when used to simulate walking behaviors associated with complex geometries such as angled walkways. It uncertain that existing modeling approaches adequately capture microscopic turning movements regards trajectories, speed profiles acceleration/deceleration patterns. This paper presents preliminary results a framework based on comprehensive experimental data for through corridors. Numerical...

Interactions between humans and physical features of the escape area can considerably impede collective movement panicked crowds. The turning angle is one that must be designed carefully as angled or circuitous egress routes such corridors are unavoidable mass gathering places. Previous studies on crowd disasters have highlighted importance considering movements, particularly under panic situations. However, few qualitative quantitative addressed this phenomenon. One reason for limited study...

Microscopic pedestrian simulation tools have gained increased attention and popularity in recent years. These are essential planning designing crowd-gathering places public buildings. For reliability of such tools, they must be calibrated against reliable empirical data for a variety situations. Detailed studies could serve this purpose while providing insight into microscopic flow characteristics under different conditions. A major gap the knowledge is that no substantial research has...

Information on the trajectories of turning vehicles at signalized intersections can be used in numerous applications, such as movement planning autonomous vehicles, realistic representation surrounding vehicle movements driving simulator and virtual reality microscopic simulation tools. However, no proper framework is currently available to realistically model estimate reflecting intersection geometries, which critical for reliability models. This study explores applicability minimum-jerk...

In order to properly design pedestrian spaces, it is important consider safety and comfort. Recently, with the rapid progress of virtual reality (VR) technologies, reproducing objects closer VR users has become easier. Therefore, systems are expected be valuable tools for evaluating comfort from pedestrians' viewpoint. particular, enables interact not only ordinary vehicles but also surrounding pedestrians or personal mobility vehicles, thus a wider range applications expected. However, most...