COVID-19 confines recreational gatherings in Seoul to familiar, less crowded, and neighboring urban areas
A code for the paper "COVID-19 confines recreational gatherings in Seoul to familiar, less crowded, and neighboring urban areas"
For detail, please read paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00902
Recreational gatherings are sources of the spread of infectious diseases. Understanding the dynamics of recreational gatherings is essential to building effective public health policies but challenging as the interaction between people and recreational places is complex. Recreational activities are concentrated in a set of urban areas and establish a recreational hierarchy. In this hierarchy, higher-level regions attract more people than lower-level regions for recreational purposes. Here, using customers' motel booking records which are highly associated with recreational activities in Korea, we identify that recreational hierarchy, geographical distance, and attachment to a location are crucial factors of recreational gatherings in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Our analyses show that after the COVID-19 outbreak, people are more likely to visit familiar recreational places, avoid the highest level of the recreational hierarchy, and travel close distances. Interestingly, the recreational visitations were reduced not only in the highest but also in low-level regions. Urban areas at low levels of the recreational hierarchy were more severely affected by COVID-19 than urban areas at high and middle levels of the recreational hierarchy.
We use snakemake for reproducibility in the paper. Codes for experiment is under the workflow folder.
snakemake
Due to privacy concerns, the accommodation reservation data we used cannot be shared publicly. The Seoul mobility data is publicly available can be downloaded from the from the [Seoul Open Data Plaza] (https://data.seoul.go.kr/dataVisual/seoul/seoulLivingMigration.do).