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This study leverages mobile phone data for 5.4 million users to unveil the complex dynamics of internal migration and daily mobility in Santiago de Chile during the global COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on socioeconomic differentials.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Erick Elejalde , Leo Ferres , Víctor Navarro , Loreto Bravo , Emilio Zagheni

Existing empirical work has focused on assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on human mobility to contain the spread of COVID-19. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the spatial…

COVID-19 is the first pandemic of the modern world causing significant changes to the everyday life of billions of people in all continents. To reduce its expansion, most governments decided to mitigate a great percentage of daily movements…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Christos Theodoridis , Yannis Theodoridis

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has affected thousands of people from different socio-demographic groups all over the country. A decisive step in preventing or slowing the outbreak is the use of mobility interventions, such as government…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Aliakbar Kabiri , Aref Darzi , Weiyi Zhou , Qianqian Sun , Lei Zhang

New York has become one of the worst-affected COVID-19 hotspots and a pandemic epicenter due to the ongoing crisis. This paper identifies the impact of the pandemic and the effectiveness of government policies on human mobility by analyzing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-05 Akhil Anil Rajput , Qingchun Li , Xinyu Gao , Ali Mostafavi

Segregation is a key challenge in promoting more diverse and inclusive cities. Research based on large-scale mobility data indicates that segregation between majority and minority groups persists in daily activities beyond residential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuan Liao , Jorge Gil , Sonia Yeh , Rafael H. M. Pereira , Laura Alessandretti

In March of this year, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and it continues to threaten public health. This global health crisis imposes limitations on daily movements, which have deteriorated every sector in our society. Understanding public…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Minha Lee , Jun Zhao , Qianqian Sun , Yixuan Pan , Weiyi Zhou , Chenfeng Xiong , Lei Zhang

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped human mobility through policy interventions and voluntary behavioral changes. Mobility adaptions helped mitigate pandemic spread, however our knowledge which environmental, social, and demographic factors…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-30 Sydney Paltra , Jonas Dehning , Viola Priesemann , Kai Nagel

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant social and economic impacts throughout the world. In addition to the health consequences, the impacts on traffic behaviors have also been sudden and dramatic. We have analyzed how the road…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Lahari Karadla , Weizi Li

Urban segregation research has long relied on residential patterns, yet growing evidence suggests that racial/ethnic segregation also manifests systematically in mobility behaviors. Leveraging anonymized mobile device data from New York…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-26 Wei-Peng Nie , Tian-Rong Ding , Xiao-Yong Yan , Tao Zhou , Zi-You Gao

What predicts a neighborhood's resilience and adaptability to essential public health policies and shelter-in-place regulations that prevent the harmful spread of COVID-19? To answer this question, in this paper we present a novel…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-17 Hasan Alp Boz , Mohsen Bahrami , Selim Balcisoy , Burcin Bozkaya , Nina Mazar , Aaron Nichols , Alex Pentland

The spread of COVID-19 and ensuing containment measures have accentuated the profound interdependence among nations or regions. This has been particularly evident in tourism, one of the sectors most affected by uncoordinated mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-02 Manuel Chica , Juan M. Hernandez , Francisco C. Santos

Social distancing remains an important strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. However, the impacts of specific state-level policies on mobility and subsequent COVID-19 case trajectories have not been completely…

Major interventions have been introduced worldwide to slow down the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Large-scale lockdowns of human movements are effective in reducing the spread, but they come at a cost of significantly limited societal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Haotian Wang , Abhirup Ghosh , Jiaxin Ding , Rik Sarkar , Jie Gao

The impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is being felt in all spheres of our lives -- cutting across the boundaries of nation, wealth, religions or race. From the time of the first detection of infection among the public, the virus…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-12 Soumyajyoti Biswas , Amit Kr Mandal

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the national systems of population movement around the world. Existing work has focused on countries of the Global North and restricted to the immediate effects of COVID-19 data during 2020. Data have…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-06 Francisco Rowe , Carmen Cabrera-Arnau , Miguel González-Leonardo , Andrea Nasuto , Ruth Neville

From the perspective of human mobility, the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a natural experiment of enormous reach in space and time. Here, we analyse the inherent multiple scales of human mobility using Facebook Movement Maps collected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-29 Juni Schindler , Jonathan Clarke , Mauricio Barahona

The relationship between pandemic and human mobility has received considerable attention from scholars, as it can provide an indication of how mobility patterns change in response to a public health crisis or whether reduced mobility…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Jungwoo Cho , Soohwan Oh , Seyun Kim , Namwoo Kim , Yuyol Shin , Haechan Cho , Yoonjin Yoon

In their response to the COVID-19 outbreak, governments face the dilemma to balance public health and economy. Mobility plays a central role in this dilemma because the movement of people enables both economic activity and virus spread. We…

In this study, we propose a clustering-based approach on time-series data to capture COVID-19 spread patterns in the early period of the pandemic. We analyze the spread dynamics based on the early and post stages of COVID-19 for different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-05 Mehedi Hassan , Md Enamul Haque , Mehmet Engin Tozal