Existing transport and mobility restrictions are: reduced public transport services (number of buses, metro), reduced capacity (number of passengers) by social distancing inside the public transport vehicles, deactivate public transport services or shared mobility modes like city bike (bike sharing), carsharing, deactivate buses, trains, flights between cities and countries, car-traffic ban between cities and countries, etc.
a research project entitled "Identification and quantification of the significant factors affecting consumers’ satisfaction of bus-based park and ride service " designed to identify and quantify the main factors affecting consumers’ satisfaction of bus-based park and ride service in Madinah City, Saudi Arabia. The study is being conducted by Dr. Valerian Kwigizile and Mohammed Albalwi from Western Michigan University, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering. This research is being conducted as part of the dissertation requirements for Mohammed Albalwi. This survey is comprised of 4 parts asking questions about the socio-economic characteristics, travel information, your satisfaction and preferences toward bus features, bus station features, parking lot features and travel features.
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These are interesting research questions with regard to accessible tourism. We highlighted some important considerations for making tourism acceesible for all in the following article. This is however related to pre-COVID period https://www.ips.lk/talkingeconomics/2016/09/27/making-sri-lankan-tourism-accessible-for-all/
Travelling should be avoided, if possible, as the risk of getting infected is maximum in elderly people. If it is very necessary, public transport should be avoided for the time being.
They are more affected so precautions must be taken and yoingsters must follow guidelines to safeguard their health.
Here is a paper that was done in Thailand
https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/easr/article/view/239519
Worldwide, I have seen data showing that there is a trend for the general public to seek healthier and safer alternatives to public transportation. The problem is, what are the best alternatives for people with reduced mobility? This has been a focus of my study as well.
I haven't read anything specific to elders or people with disabilities. But I recently read an article about the case of Germany, in which the authors found that the population is more confident in the use of cars as a safe "environment" against COVID. They even found that about 1/3 of people without cars miss having one, and about 5 or 10% were intending to buy one. In my interpretation, for Germans, a car could be the "healthier and safer alternative", as Thaís Debli Libardoni said.
It is the result of just one work, but it alerted me to a hypothesis: could the pandemic bring as a consequence a new increase in motorization, negatively impacting recent achievements in active and sustainable mobility?
Here's the article:
Eisenmann, C., Nobis, C., Kolarova, V., Lenz, B., & Winkler, C. (2021). Transport mode use during the COVID-19 lockdown period in Germany: The car became more important, public transport lost ground. Transport Policy, 103(January), 60–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.01.012
Christiano Piccioni Toralles I believe we are living a change point, whose implications will depend a lot on the existing transport alternatives in each reality. About Germany, I recently wrote a book chapter using this reference:
Anke, J., Francke, A., Schaefer, LM. et al. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the mobility behaviour in Germany. Eur. Transp. Res. Rev. 13, 10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-021-00469-3
It might be interesting for you, take a look.