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    Long-term travel behaviour impacts of Covid-19 on marginalised households in Cape Town
    (Elsevier B.V., 2025) Rink, Bradley; Makitle, Mojalefa Patrick; Mosikare, M
    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic considerable research attention has been focused on the long-term effects of movement restrictions on remote working, shopping and schooling - amongst other activities. These studies have interrogated impacts on trip reduction and long-term travel behaviour amongst households with livelihoods assets that make them resilient, including those with jobs that can be performed remotely, access to resources to support home-schooling, and disposable incomes to engage with the global online retail economy. Comparatively little research attention has been given to impacts of lockdown policies amongst households with unstable income streams derived from the informal sector, casualised manual labour or social grants, with home environments unsupportive of home education, and with little or no disposable income. This paper seeks to address this gap in knowledge by focusing on pandemic-induced impacts on long-term travel behaviour of such marginalised households through an exploration of their livelihoods, mobility, and accessibility before, during and after the pandemic in the context of Cape Town, South Africa. This paper interrogates two interrelated questions: Firstly, how COVID19 has affected accessibility and social-spatial inclusion of marginalised groups; and second, how COVID19 impacted on long-term travel behaviour of marginalised groups. Through mobility biographies collected from a sample of 101 household representatives using the questionnaire-driven mapping tool Maptionnaire, the findings of this paper identify two primary shifts related to travel behaviour at the household level for two marginalised communities in Cape Town: Activity domain shifts evidenced by changes in range of activity and modal choice; and nodal shifts due to residential displacement as evidenced by the case of 'Covid City', an informal settlement that arose within one of the study sites. Taken together, these findings illustrate the uneven nature of the pandemic's impacts on long-term travel behaviour amongst marginalised households and the incompleteness of recovery.