Analysis of Covid-19 Pandemic on Ravel Behavour of Commuters in Igboora

Abstract

The study viewed at global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as is taking an excessive sway on all areas of the normal life of individuals worldwide as well as their travel behavior. Nations have been effected various methods that focus on checking social contacts and reducing in this way the spread of the virus and its swift blowout transversely throughout the world necessitated the introduction of travel restriction policies by the federal and state governments of Nigeria. It was done to abridge the stretch out of the noxious diseases.This paper sought to examine the travel behaviour of scorning travellers in Igboora,oyo state Nigeria amidst the travel restriction policy during the lock down. About 400 questionnaires were administered to commuters travelling within the 440 square kilometers of igboora in Oyo State. The study was Analysed using descriptive statistics and chisquare test for independence between the categorical data made available for this study. The findings of the study displayed that there was significant variation in travel behavior of commuters in Igboora, Oyo State at 0.05% level of significance using contingency tables. Also, there was statistically significant level of depence of commuters’ socio-demographic characteristics on modal split and trip destination.

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