Abstract
The impacts of COVID-19 on the transportation system have received attention from researchers all over the world. Initial findings reveal that patronage of public transport has gone down, while the use of active transport has increased in general. To the best of our knowledge, no study has focused on the pandemic’s effects on motorcycle mode, let alone in the context of an Asian city. We attempted to fill this void in literature by investigating if COVID-19 has influenced people to purchase motorcycles and determining the factors driving their intentions. The study is based on an online survey of 368 people in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The study found that around 46% of the respondents were expected to increase travel by motorcycle during the post-lockdown period. About 21% of the respondents were also expected to do the opposite. Around 31% of the respondents planned to purchase a motorcycle by August 2021, and the results indicated that the pandemic has influenced more people to purchase motorcycles compared to the pre-pandemic period. The study further identified factors that influenced the respondents’ plan for purchasing a motorcycle during the post-lockdown period applying the binary logistic regression. Based on the findings of the study, policy measures were proposed for controlling the growth of motorcycle numbers and increasing the use of active transport modes as its alternative, and consequently, helping to achieve sustainable transportation outcomes.
Highlights
COVID-19 has been creating havoc in the lives of people around the world for more than a year
This study found that 46% of the respondents were expected to travel more by motorcycle than the pre-COVID-19 period, which was consistent with the predictions of the previous studies
The unprecedented effects of COVID-19 have been felt in the transportation sector as well
Summary
COVID-19 has been creating havoc in the lives of people around the world for more than a year now. Termed as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, Coronavirus has profoundly impacted sectors such as public health, economy, and transportation (ILO 2020; New Scientist, 2020). The countries adopted different lockdown measures to prevent the internal spread, from movement restrictions to complete curfews (ABC News, 2020; Baker et al, 2020). People have been advised and sometimes forced to adopt preventive measures at COVID-19 Impact on Motorcycle Purchase personal levels in the form of wearing face masks, sanitizing hands, and maintaining a distance of 1–2 m according to WHO and CDC guidelines (CDC, 2020; WHO, 2020)
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