Health crisis and mobility: everything except public transport!(study)
A study of the emerging mobility observatory shows that 63% of French people are now challenging public transport.The use of the car comes out reinforced from the health crisis, with a rate ...
09/01/2023
A study of the emerging mobility observatory shows that 63% of French people are now distributing public transport.The use of the car comes out reinforced from the health crisis, with a satisfaction rate equivalent to that of the walking.
In a few months, the health crisis and the restrictions it imposes will have deeply impacted the lifestyles of the French.By trivializing, teleworking and online purchases have led to a strong questioning of the means of transport used on a daily basis.
A study* of the mobility observatory made public this Tuesday morning confirms in the first place the disaffection from which public transport suffers.Thus, 52% of those questioned do not trust other users for everything related to the wearing of the mask or respect for barriers.Likewise, buses, metros and other RERs only collect satisfaction rates between 5.7 and 6.2/10, when two-wheelers, car, bicycle and walking oscillate between 7.3 and 8.1/10.
Between the two confinements, walking will have seen its use increase by 22% and the 6% bicycle.This period will also have benefited the automobile.If 15% of us assure that we have increased the use, 12% say they have decreased it (telework helping, probably).This gives a balance of evolution of +3% despite everything.
We note the same increase of 3% for personal urban sliding items, self-service electric scooters, two-wheelers, taxis and VTC.In short, everything is good to avoid public transport, at least when possible: among those who have reduced its use, 63% evoke a deliberate avoidance strategy.
In this spirit, the French are only 60% to grant credit to public transport in the near future, when they were 69% in 2018.Better: 65% believe that one can "never completely abandon the freedom that the car gives in our trips.»»
A real pro-auto plebiscite, therefore.A car whose French consider themselves to remain owners, since if 50% of those questioned rather imagine a future where priority lies in the use of mobility services, they were 68% to think so before the crisis.
*Online survey with a sample of 4,500 people, representative of the French population aged 18 to 75.The investigation was carried out from October 21 to 29, 2020, just before the implementation of the reconfirms.