Relationship between commuting and non-commuting travel activity under the growing incidence of working from home and people’s attitudes towards COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way we live and travel, possibly for many years to come. ‘New Normal’ seems be one that is best associated with living rather ‘after COVID-19’. After a year or more since spread throughout world, have amassed significant amount of evidence on what this likely mean patterns commuting activity in setting where working home (WFH) becoming popular legitimate alternative choosing mode. With WFH continuing some extent, non-commuting travel also change as workers their families greater flexibility when extent they conduct shopping, social-recreation other trip activity. This paper recognises all purpose being impacted by drivers changing number trips each every need identified establishing future levels frequency making. In develop series making models non-workers New South Wales Queensland metropolitan regional setting, using data collected late 2020. influence days an important one-way weekly various purposes, which together socioeconomic, geographic attitudinal variables enable us gain understanding driving trip-purpose-specific during pandemic. Elasticities simulated changes are presented behaviourally rich understand sensitivity influences travel.