Robust and Equitable Mobility Models
18th January 2023
“The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic recession negatively affected many people’s physical, social, and psychological health and has been shown to change population-level mobility, but little attention has been given to park visitations as an indicator. In this talk, I present the results of our Nature study in understanding trends in park visitation one year prior to and two years during the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington State (USA). I will show that modelling the recreational mobility using the gravity model results in a robust model for different spatial resolutions of city level and state level and different socio-economical classes. I will then conclude the talk on how we as the research community need to focus on metrics that can quantify fairness and equity of mobility models.”
Dr Afra Mashhadi is an Assistant Professor of Computing and Software Systems, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Information School, University of Washington, USA.
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