Variação do índice de mobilidade semanal por meio de dados do Mozilla Location Service

Abstract

This study develops an approach to variability of mobility between weekdays, weekends, and holidays. For this purpose, an alternative source of transport-oriented data was used, the Mozilla Location Service, which provides locational data for its collaborators. For the study of variation, a method was constructed in order to analyze the behavior of the collective, without focusing on individual patterns. No significant differences were found in the mobility index between working days, as well as between working days and Saturdays, and in the comparisons of working days with Sunday and holidays there was a significant variation. There was a trend of less mobility (rest) on holidays on Monday, compared to Thursday. The results found here corroborate, but also diverge from several studies in the literature.