The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on multimodal human mobility in London: A perspective of decarbonizing transport

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on microplastic abundance along the River Thames

“…This is possibly due to only essential workers being allowed out during the Lockdown, with the majority of people staying at home. As a result, fewer cars were on the roads, especially within the London area, with car traffic down to 23 % of its usual baseline (Zhang and Cheng, 2022). This decrease in ABS was not consistent throughout all the Lockdowns, with ABS abundance increasing to pre-Covid levels or above, eventually resulting in ABS being more abundant post-Covid-19 than pre-Covid-19.…”

Understanding internal migration in the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using twitter data

“…However, these indices have low spatial granularity (usually on a city scale) and only include movements within and between large cities or large administrative regions (provinces or states), ignoring migration between cities and rural areas. In addition, previous studies (Huang et al, 2021;Terroso-Saenz et al, 2022;Zhang & Cheng, 2022;Zhong et al, 2022) have mainly focused on short-term trips, such as daily mobility or tourism, whereas long-term migrations, i.e., home relocation, have not received scant attention. Mobile phone data is another important source of tracking migration but is very expensive and difficult to access (Bonnetain et al, 2021).…”