The impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on gendered mobility patterns in France

Bulteau, Julie; Torres, Esté R.; Tillous, Marion

doi:10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100615

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“…Urban mobility encompasses a wide range of transportation options and sources that help people move around cities efficiently. Some studies related to COVID-19 have focused on public transportation, such as urban rail systems [ 2 ], public buses [ 3 ], a combination of them (e.g., public transit, ride-shares, bikes, and walking [ 4 ]), or gendered mobility patterns [ 5 ]. In principle, knowing more about the relationship between increased or decreased mobility and the incidence of COVID-19 will help us to act more effectively in future pandemics.…”

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Advance Monitoring of COVID-19 Incidence Based on Taxi Mobility: The Infection Ratio Measure

Aguilar-Ruiz,

Ruiz,

Giráldez

2024

Healthcare

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on various aspects of our lives, affecting personal, occupational, economic, and social spheres. Much has been learned since the early 2020s, which will be very useful when the next pandemic emerges. In general, mobility and virus spread are strongly related. However, most studies analyze the impact of COVID-19 on mobility, but not much research has focused on analyzing the impact of mobility on virus transmission, especially from the point of view of monitoring virus incidence, which is extremely important for making sound decisions to control any epidemiological threat to public health. As a result of a thorough analysis of COVID-19 and mobility data, this work introduces a novel measure, the Infection Ratio (IR), which is not sensitive to underestimation of positive cases and is very effective in monitoring the pandemic’s upward or downward evolution when it appears to be more stable, thus anticipating possible risk situations. For a bounded spatial context, we can infer that there is a significant threshold in the restriction of mobility that determines a change of trend in the number of infections that, if maintained for a minimum period, would notably increase the chances of keeping the spread of disease under control. Results show that IR is a reliable indicator of the intensity of infection, and an effective measure for early monitoring and decision making in smart cities.

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