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

Ruth F. Hunter; Leandro Garcia; Thiago Herick de Sa; Belen Zapata-Diomedi; Christopher Millett; James Woodcock; Alex ’Sandy’ Pentland; Esteban Moro

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23937-9

Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

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

Ruth F. Hunter,
Leandro Garcia,
Thiago Herick de Sa,
Belen Zapata-Diomedi,
Christopher Millett,
James Woodcock,
Alex ’Sandy’ Pentland,
Esteban Moro

Affiliations

Ruth F. Hunter: Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast
Leandro Garcia: Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast
Thiago Herick de Sa: Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health, Universtiy of São Paulo
Belen Zapata-Diomedi: Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
Christopher Millett: Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
James Woodcock: Centre for Diet and Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Alex ’Sandy’ Pentland: Connection Science, Institute for Data Science and Society, MIT
Esteban Moro: Connection Science, Institute for Data Science and Society, MIT

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23937-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Mobility restrictions implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have significantly impacted walking behavior. In this study, the authors integrated mobility data from mobile devices and area-level data to study the walking patterns of 1.62 million anonymous users in 10 US metropolitan areas.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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