The city turned off: Urban dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic based on mobile phone data

Romanillos, Gustavo; Palomares, Juan Carlos García; Moya-Gómez, Borja; Gutiérrez, Javier; Torres, Javier; Lopez, M.G. Vega; Cantú-Ros, Oliva G.; Herranz, Ricardo

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102524

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“…Romanillos et al reported similar results from the Madrid metropolitan area [47]. Lee et al examined the mobility changes during the lockdown in England, and found that the mobility of the wealthier subscribers decreased more significantly [17].…”

Section: Arxiv:220211620v1 [Cssi] 23 Feb 2022mentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Willberg et al found a considerable decrease in the population presence in the largest cities of Finland, after the lockdown [10]. Romanillos et al reported similar results from the Madrid metropolitan area [11]. Lee et al examined the mobility changes during the lockdown in England, and found that the mobility of the wealthier subscribers decreased more significantly [12].…”

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Awakening City: Traces of the Circadian Rhythm within the Mobile Phone Network Data

Pintér

Felde

2022

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In this study, call detail records (CDR), covering Budapest, Hungary, are processed to analyze the circadian rhythm of the subscribers. An indicator, called wake-up time, is introduced to describe the behavior of a group of subscribers. It is defined as the time when the mobile phone activity of a group rises in the morning. Its counterpart is the time when the activity falls in the evening. Inhabitant and area-based aggregation are also presented. The former is to consider the people who live in an area, while the latter uses the transit activity in an area to describe the behavior of a part of the city. The opening hours of the malls and the nightlife of the party district are used to demonstrate this application as real-life examples. The proposed approach is also used to estimate the working hours of the workplaces. The findings are in a good agreement with the practice in Hungary, and also support the workplace detection method. A negative correlation is found between the wake-up time and mobility indicators (entropy, radius of gyration): on workdays, people wake up earlier and travel more, while on holidays, it is quite the contrary. The wake-up time is evaluated in different socioeconomic classes, using housing prices and mobile phones prices, as well. It is found that lower socioeconomic groups tend to wake up earlier.

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Section: Arxiv:220211620v1 [Cssi] 23 Feb 2022mentioning

confidence: 84%

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Awakening City: Traces of the Circadian Rhythm within the Mobile Phone Network Data

Pintér

Felde

2022

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“…With the arrival of COVID-19, the scientific community and public bodies began to ask people to practice social distancing as one of the main measures to prevent contagion [ 1 ]. These measures to reduce virus transmission have led to a reduction in mobility, to a greater or lesser extent, at the international level [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ], as well as a change in daily mobility patterns [ 6 ]. However, the impact on mobility has not been the same for different modes of transport.…”

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Applying a Pedestrian Level of Service in the Context of Social Distancing: The Case of the City of Madrid

Talavera-García

Campaña

2021

IJERPH

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion about keeping interpersonal distance to prevent the virus from spreading. To keep this interpersonal distance, authorities at different levels have taken measures to reduce people’s interactions, such as reducing capacities, curfews, pop-up cycle lanes, temporary pedestrianisation, and lockdowns. Many of these temporary measures have been perceived from a static view. Nevertheless, in a scenario of “new normality” or in the face of a possible new pandemic, the amount of data (big data) generated by different sources, such as sensors, in large cities has extraordinary potential to be used together with tactical urbanism for quick adaptation. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the aforementioned issues by analysing spatio-temporal patterns of pedestrian mobility and developing a variation of the pedestrian level of service measure; the pandemic pedestrian level of service (P-PLOS). This measure provides a dynamic view of pavement capacities according to the interpersonal distance recommendations during the pandemic. P-PLOS was tested in the city of Madrid based on the pedestrian counter data that was provided by the local government through its open data website. We found that the application of P-PLOS, together with street design, allows for knowing where and when it is necessary to take tactical urbanism measures in order to maintain or improve the level of service, as well as where it is necessary to take measures to reduce pedestrian flow.

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“…Quantitative methods help to trace variations in spatial and temporal patterns of service flows connecting restaurants, delivery persons, and consumers. Data mining enhances predictions of movements in the city (Andrienko et al, 2021), and it may be used to chart urban dynamics (Romanillos et al, 2021) and to decipher meanings from social patterns and interactions between technological layers and social systems (Spielman & Thill, 2008). The quantitative strategy has problems to analyze variations in human behavior and agency, particularly under the conditions of instability generated by a focusing event (Scott & Garcia, 2016;Vespignani, 2009).…”

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Socio-spatial adaptation in the food delivery system during the first stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in Guadalajara, Jalisco

Chávez

Varela

2022

Acta Universitaria

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Focusing events are associated with opportunities for innovation and transformation of social practices. Socio-spatial adaptation processes induced by these events are a relevant issue due to theoretical and public policy reasons. This article analyzes the growth of food delivery services during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic and the socio-spatial adaptation observed in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Based on evidence generated through semi-structured interviews with food deliverers in the Providencia area, the study identifies four dominant socio-spatial adaptation strategies. Workers used them to adapt to the pandemic in a context of systemic problems of social and urban inequality, social distancing policies, and increased occupational hazards, while digital platforms gained legitimacy and pushed for service diversification.

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The city turned off: Urban dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic based on mobile phone data

Cited by 37 publications

References 23 publications

Awakening City: Traces of the Circadian Rhythm within the Mobile Phone Network Data

Awakening City: Traces of the Circadian Rhythm within the Mobile Phone Network Data

Applying a Pedestrian Level of Service in the Context of Social Distancing: The Case of the City of Madrid

Socio-spatial adaptation in the food delivery system during the first stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in Guadalajara, Jalisco

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