Authors:
Simone Porru
;
Francesco Edoardo Misso
;
Silvia Manca
and
Cino Repetto
Affiliation:
T Bridge S.p.A., Via Garibaldi 7/10, Genova, Italy
Keyword(s):
Floating Car Data, GPS Data Analysis, Youth Mobility.
Abstract:
Among mobility data sources, Floating Car Data plays a very, and increasingly, significant role, and has been extensively used to obtain traffic information. In this study, FCD has been used to shed light upon the youth mobility changes occurred during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic by focusing on five selected high schools in Modena Municipality (Italy). Mobility indicators computed within the areas under investigation show that two out of the three schools’ areas are not associated to a significant variation in the number of detected distinct private probe vehicles from November 2019 to November 2021 (-3% and +1%), whereas within the Modena Municipality results show a 8% decrease. However, one out of the three schools’ areas shows a significant decrease in 2021 when compared to 2019 (-11%), suggesting a noticeable decrease in private vehicles traffic density that could be due to an increased use of personal mobility vehicles, such as bikes. Moreover, results within
the Modena Municipality suggest that in 2021, even if the number of detected vehicles was lower than in 2019, each vehicle not only covered a longer distance on average, but also the total distance covered by all the vehicles together was longer (14% increase).
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