Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic has heavily impacted the global community. To curb the viral transmission, travel restrictions have been enforced across the world. The dataset documents the mobility disruptions and the modal shifts that have occurred as a consequence of the restrictive measures implemented in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States. An online questionnaire was distributed during the period from the 11st to the 31st of May 2020, with a total of 9 394 respondents. The first part of the survey has characterized the frequency of use of all transport modes before and during the enforcement of the restrictions, while the second part of the survey has dealt with perceived risks of contracting COVID-19 from different transport modes and perceived effectiveness of travel mitigation measures. Overall, the dataset (stored in a repository publicly available) can be conveniently used to quantify and understand the modal shifts and people's cognitive behavior towards travel due to COVID-19. The collected responses can be further analysed by considering other demographic and socioeconomic covariates.
Highlights
The dataset documents the mobility disruptions and the modal shifts that have occurred as a consequence of the restrictive measures implemented in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States
The first part of the survey has characterized the frequency of use of all transport modes before and during the enforcement of the restrictions, while the second part of the survey has dealt with perceived risks of contracting COVID-19 from different transport modes and perceived effectiveness of travel mitigation measures
The data are related to the mobility disruptions for all transport modes occurring during the COVID-19 restrictions as experienced by a large survey pool comprising 9 394 respondents located in ten countries on six continents
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge for the entire global community [1,2], as both the amount of confirmed cases and the death toll are rising at a staggering rate at this moment [3]. The dataset deriving from this cross-country investigation addressed two main areas: (i) to characterize the use of all transport modes (walk, cycle, car-driving alone, car-driving in company, bus, subway/tram, train, ferry, airplane) before and during the restrictions and (ii) to assess the associated perceived risk of contracting the virus and the perceived effectiveness of the travel mitigation measures. The survey targeted these two objectives with six questions [14], grouped as Question A, B, C and Question D, E, F, respectively. As the two datasets were formed at the same time (between the 11st and the 31st May 2020) but made available at two different times due to the time needed by the research team to organize and timely present the collected responses, further analyses can be performed by considering these two datasets simultaneously
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