Background

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a communicative intervention in addressing passengers’ increased risk perception of getting infected with COVID-19 in public buses and thereby improving travel-related well-being after the pandemic.

Method

A pre-registered quasi-experimental field-study (N = 306) was conducted in two public bus line bundles. The intervention consisted of visualizing the fresh air supply in the bus via tinsel garlands.

Findings

The intervention successfully increased passengers’ awareness of fresh air supply in the bus (in the intervention group as compared to the control group; d = 0.25). However, this awareness did neither reduce passengers’ risk perception, nor did it increase their subjective well-being in the bus. An explorative analysis identified crowding, and general COVID-19 risk perception as major predictors of risk perception on-board.

Conclusion

The study revealed first-hand, real-time insights in bus passengers’ risk perception, travel well-being and their major predictors during the out fading COVID-19 pandemic.

中文翻译：

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可视化公交车内的通风：解决公共交通乘客的风险感知

背景

这项研究评估了沟通干预的有效性，以解决乘客在公共巴士上感染 COVID-19 的风险认知增加的问题，从而改善大流行后与旅行相关的福祉。

方法

 在两个公共公交线路束中进行了预先注册的准实验现场研究（N = 306）。干预措施包括通过金属丝花环可视化公交车内的新鲜空气供应。

发现

干预措施成功提高了乘客对公交车内新鲜空气供应的认识（干预组与对照组相比；d  = 0.25）。然而，这种意识并没有降低乘客的风险感知，也没有增加他们在公交车上的主观幸福感。一项探索性分析发现，拥挤和一般的 COVID-19 风险认知是船上风险认知的主要预测因素。

结论

该研究揭示了在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情逐渐消退期间，公交车乘客的风险认知、出行幸福感及其主要预测因素的第一手实时见解。