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Associations between socio‐demographic factors and change in mobility due to COVID‐19 restrictions in Ontario, Canada using geographically weighted regression
Transportation research has shown that socio‐demographic factors impact people's mobility patterns. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, some of these effects have changed in accordance with changing mobility needs adapting to the pandemic, including restrictions on in‐person gatherings, closure of in...
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Published in: | The Canadian geographer 2024-07, Vol.68 (2), p.256-275 |
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Summary: | Transportation research has shown that socio‐demographic factors impact people's mobility patterns. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, some of these effects have changed in accordance with changing mobility needs adapting to the pandemic, including restrictions on in‐person gatherings, closure of in‐person businesses, and working from home. We investigate two gaps in current knowledge in this area of transportation research: to what extent the associations between socio‐demographic factors and mobility metrics have changed, and how these associations vary across geographic space. We used aggregate deidentified cell tower location data to measure two mobility metrics—movement time and radius of gyration—and socio‐demographic data from the 2016 Canadian Census to model these associations across Ontario, Canada in 2020 using a linear model and a geographically weighted regression model. We find that certain associations between socio‐demographics and mobility have changed from what we previously observed before the pandemic, and we can see the variation of these associations across space. These findings will improve our understanding of how socio‐demographic factors affect mobility patterns in different communities and demonstrate the importance of measuring these associations at a more fine‐grained level using models that consider spatial variation to best reflect the nature of these associations.
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Les recherches sur les transports ont montré depuis longtemps que les facteurs sociodémographiques ont des effets sur les patrons de mobilité des personnes. Au cours de la pandémie de COVID‐19, certains de ces effets spécifiques ont changé, notamment à cause des restrictions sur les rassemblements, de l’arrêt des rencontres d’affaires en présentiel et du télétravail. Nous étudions ici deux lacunes dans les connaissances actuelles de la recherche sur les transports en contexte pandémique: dans quelle mesure les liens entre les facteurs sociodémographiques et les paramètres de mobilité ont changé, et comment ces relations varient à travers l’espace géographique. Sur le plan méthodologique, nous avons utilisé des données agrégées de localisation de tours cellulaires dépersonnalisées pour mesurer deux éléments de la mobilité, soit le temps de déplacement et le rayon de giration. Des données sociodémographiques tirées du recensement canadien de 2016 ont aussi été employés. Ces informations ont permis de modéliser les liens entre ces deux éléments de mobilité en Ontari |
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ISSN: | 0008-3658 1541-0064 |
DOI: | 10.1111/cag.12879 |