Domestic and international mobility trends in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of facebook data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since early March 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic across the United Kingdom has led to a range of social distancing policies, which resulted in changes to mobility across different regions. An understanding of how these policies impacted travel patterns over time and at different spatial scales is important for designing effective strategies, future pandemic planning and in providing broader insights on the population geography of the country. Crowd level data on mobile phone usage can be used as a proxy for population mobility patterns and provide a way of quantifying in near-real time the impact of social distancing measures on changes in mobility.

Methods

Here we explore patterns of change in densities, domestic and international flows and co-location of Facebook u

SUBMITTER: Shepherd HER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8643186 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature