Iacus Stefano Maria, Santamaria Carlos, Sermi Francesco, Spyratos Spyridon, Tarchi Dario, Vespe Michele
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy.
Transportation (Amst). 2022;49(6):1999-2025. doi: 10.1007/s11116-021-10234-z. Epub 2021 Sep 30.
This work introduces a new concept of functional areas called Mobility Functional Areas (MFAs), i.e., the geographic zones highly interconnected according to the analysis of mobile positioning data. The MFAs do not coincide necessarily with administrative borders as they are built observing natural human mobility and, therefore, they can be used to inform, in a bottom-up approach, local transportation, spatial planning, health and economic policies. After presenting the methodology behind the MFAs, this study focuses on the link between the COVID-19 pandemic and the MFAs in Austria. It emerges that the MFAs registered an average number of infections statistically larger than the areas in the rest of the country, suggesting the usefulness of the MFAs in the context of targeted re-escalation policy responses to this health crisis. The MFAs dataset is openly available to other scholars for further analyses.
这项工作引入了一种名为移动功能区(MFAs)的功能区新概念,即根据移动定位数据分析得出的高度互联的地理区域。移动功能区不一定与行政边界重合,因为它们是基于对人类自然移动的观察构建的,因此,可以采用自下而上的方法,用于为地方交通、空间规划、卫生和经济政策提供信息。在介绍了移动功能区背后的方法之后,本研究重点关注了奥地利的新冠疫情与移动功能区之间的联系。结果显示,移动功能区记录的平均感染人数在统计上高于该国其他地区,这表明在针对这一健康危机的有针对性的重新升级政策应对背景下,移动功能区是有用的。移动功能区数据集已向其他学者开放,以供进一步分析。