Has COVID led to a structural change in travel behaviour?
Overview
Objectives:
Corona has had a major impact on society, as well as on mobility. We are currently in a phase in which almost all measures have been scrapped. In the current situation (May 2022) people are less likely to report that the pandemic has had a major negative personal impact than in previous periods during the pandemic. A smaller percentage than in previous periods (still a majority of 55%) also expects the pandemic to have a major impact on society in the longer term (previous periods between 80% and 90%).
Methodology:
The study was carried out on a sample of around 2,000 panel members of the Mobility Panel Netherlands (MPN). The MPN consists of a representative group of Dutch people who have been surveyed annually since 2013 about their travel behaviour. All panel members who also participated in the previous measurements during the pandemic were invited to participate in this study. This makes it possible to compare the travel behaviour in the current period with the travel behaviour of the same group of Dutch people both before and during the COVID pandemic.
In the period from 11 May to 22 May 2022, the panel members were asked to complete a ‘travel diary’ for three consecutive days, supplemented by a personal questionnaire. The questionnaire focuses on mapping current travel behaviour, related experience aspects and expectations for the future (as long as no new COVID measures are in place). By repeating a large part of the questions from the previous measurement, it was investigated how these different aspects have changed in recent times
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