Highlights More people in Bangladesh tends to change travel behaviour than developed countries. More people choose cancelling trips or changing destinations in intercity travel. Inland people are more sensitive to the changes of flooding attributes. Flood frequency most significantly affects inland people’s travel behaviour change. It is most important to protect road infrastructure in coastal areas under flooding.

    Abstract Increased attention has been paid to travel behaviour in circumstances of extreme weather conditions that are expected with climate change, and the analyses usually address intra-city travel. There is lack of assessments on inter-city travel which has less redundancy and is more exposed to extreme weather threats. In addition, much of the research has been carried out in developed countries. This paper provides new perspectives by investigating how people adapt their inter-city travel behaviour to flooding impacts in Bangladesh. With an orthogonal design of three flooding scenarios, questionnaire data were collected in 14 coastal and inland areas. Results of the statistical analyses identify the significant impacts of flooding on people’s inter-city travel and reveal significant differences in attitudes and responses to flooding and extreme weather in coastal compared to inland locations. The main factors significantly affecting travel behaviour choice are road disruption, isolation by flood water, and flood frequency. These factors are felt differently in coastal and inland locations. The most common responses are cancelling trips or changing destinations. It is recommended that when making flooding adaptation decisions, it is important to protect road infrastructure and guarantee accessible routes in coastal areas, while offering more flood adaptation education to the inland people.


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    Titel :

    Inter-city travel behaviour adaptation to extreme weather events


    Beteiligte:
    Lu, Qing-Chang (Autor:in) / Zhang, Junyi (Autor:in) / Peng, Zhong-Ren (Autor:in) / Rahman, ABM Sertajur (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    6 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch