Abstract
The appearance of the COVID-19 virus in Europe, at the beginning of 2020, brought many challenges and changes to society. These changes affected the behavior, desires, and needs of passengers in vehicles. The change in passenger behavior has contributed to the more difficult organization of passenger transport and traffic management. For these reasons, in the countries of South-East Europe (Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, the Republic of Northern Macedonia and Croatia), this survey was conducted in order to examine which demographic characteristics of respondents (age, gender, residence, education, and health) influence choice of transport, with the aim to optimize the transport system in times of crisis in this region. 786 respondents participated in the research. The results showed that the acceptability of vehicle occupancy most often differs with respect to age, education, and health conditions of the respondents. The obtained results will greatly help the organizers of public transport and the transport system in the region, since based on these results they can have an insight into the demographic factors that influence the choice of transport mode during a crisis.
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IntroductionPublisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations
Received: 12 June 2021Accepted: 15 July 2021Published: 28 July 2021Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.At the beginning of December 2019, a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ap-peared in the city of Wuhan, which quickly spread to China and almost all coun-tries of the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
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Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. At the beginning of December 2019, a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ap-peared in the city of Wuhan, which quickly spread to China and almost all coun-tries of the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. The COVID-19 epidemic is considered the worst respiratory virus in recent history, as it has affected more than 186 countries and caused serious problems in almost every enterprise in both developed and developing countries [8]. Evidence to date suggests that the virus affects human behavior, but these changes vary by country and region
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