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Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemáticaes
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de InvestigaciĂłn: Network Technologieses
dc.contributor.authorHunter, Ruth F.
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Leandro
dc.contributor.authorThiago Herick, de Sa
dc.contributor.authorZapata-Diomedi, Belén
dc.contributor.authorMillett, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorWoodcock, James
dc.contributor.authorPentland, Alex 'Sandy'
dc.contributor.authorMoro, Esteban
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-03T08:27:17Z
dc.date.available2022-05-03T08:27:17Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-16
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is causing mass disruption to our daily lives. We integrate mobility data from mobile devices and area-level data to study the walking patterns of 1.62 million anonymous users in 10 metropolitan areas in the United States. The data covers the period from mid-February 2020 (pre-lockdown) to late June 2020 (easing of lockdown restrictions). We detect when users were walking, distance walked and time of the walk, and classify each walk as recreational or utilitarian. Our results reveal dramatic declines in walking, particularly utilitarian walking, while recreational walking has recovered and even surpassed pre-pandemic levels. Our findings also demonstrate important social patterns, widening existing inequalities in walking behavior. COVID-19 response measures have a larger impact on walking behavior for those from low-income areas and high use of public transportation. Provision of equal opportunities to support walking is key to opening up our society and economy.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe would like to thank Cuebiq for allowing the use of anonymized data through their COVID19 Collaborative program. E.M. acknowledges partial support by MINECO (FIS2016-78904-C3-3-P and PID2019-106811GB-C32). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationHunter, R. F., Garcia, L., de Sa, T. H., Zapata-Diomedi, B., Millett, C., Woodcock, J., Pentland, A. ’Sandy’, & Moro, E. (2021). Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities. In Nature Communications (Vol. 12, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23937-9
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage3652
dc.identifier.publicationissue1
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage3661
dc.identifier.publicationtitleNature Communicationsen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34667
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000030511
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. FIS2016-78904-C3-3-Pes
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. PID2019-106811GB-C32es
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021en
dc.rightsAtribución 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaBiologĂ­a y Biomedicinaes
dc.subject.ecienciaSociologĂ­aes
dc.titleEffect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US citiesen
dc.typeresearch article*
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