Abstract
In response to the repeated outbreaks of the COVID-19, many countries implement the region-specific, multilevel epidemic prevention and control policies. To fully understand the impact of these interventions on urban mobility, it is urgent to analyze spatial–temporal mobility pattern at the neighborhood level and structural changes in urban mobility networks. Here, we construct urban mobility networks among points of interest (POIs), using large-scale anonymous mobility data from de-identified mobile phone users. We comprehensively investigate the changes of urban mobility networks during two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing from both graph and subgraph perspectives. Beyond an overall mobility reduction in Beijing, we find that the mobility change is spatially and temporally heterogeneous among different urban regions. We uncover a disproportionately large reduction in long-distance, nighttime, and non-essential travel. This results in a more geographically fragmented, local, and regional network in the pandemic. We demonstrate that these structural changes slow down the spatial spread of the COVID-19 in the mobility network.
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