أثر جائحة فيروس كورونا المستجد على تغير سلوكيات التنقل في مصر

Abstract EN

The novel coronavirus disaster 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the latest epidemiological shock in history, and the most rapid in spreading.

It has affected various aspects of life, the most important of which is transport and mobility.

The relationship between the pandemic and the means of transport is reciprocal, the means of transport have contributed to spreading infection, in the other hand, the pandemic has contributed to changing travel and movement behaviors around the world.

In this research, we try to identify the impact of the pandemic on changing travel behaviors and the characteristics of trips in Egypt, based on the application of 1232 questionnaires (1207 are correct) to explore the characteristics of trips before and during the pandemic.

We have tried to answer two central questions in this paper, the first was; "Is there an impact of the pandemic on the characteristics of trips and transportation in Egypt? What is the size of this effect? ", To answer this composite question, we used the Paired Sample T-test, and then we used the Cohen index to measure the size of the effect.

The second question was; "Are there spatial differences in the impact of the pandemic on mobility in the regions of Egypt? ", We used here "Anova" analysis and post-Hock tests (the least significant Difference test) LSD.

There was a clear change in the rates of trips, the frequency of work, education, shopping, and social trips decreased.

Education trips were the most affected, while social trips were the least, and the use of transportation as a whole decreased, but this decrease was evident in public transport.

The spatial differences in the impact of the pandemic were not significant, but they were most evident with regard to the shopping and social trips