Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown

Abstract Malaysia Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) aims to bring the business, education, tourism and other industry sectors back into operation. Due to movement constraints that result in local economic patterns, individual mobility patterns are expected to occur. However, this matter needs f...

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Main Authors: Uznir Ujang, Suhaibah Azri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Geo: Geography and Environment
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.113
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Suhaibah Azri
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description Abstract Malaysia Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) aims to bring the business, education, tourism and other industry sectors back into operation. Due to movement constraints that result in local economic patterns, individual mobility patterns are expected to occur. However, this matter needs further investigation from people's spatial behaviour during the RMCO. Therefore, this research proposed a new technique for analysing people's spatial behaviour patterns via geo‐tagged data. The data from social media users are gathered using data mining techniques. Geographical Information System (GIS) is used to show the geolocation of social media users and analyse their spatial behaviour. The finding of this analysis shows higher people's movement recorded when the RMCO was enforced; a distinctive pattern where spatial trajectory length is high but spatial area coverage is low. It is noticed that the focal points are concentrated in urban areas and tourism attractions.
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spelling doaj.art-c553725208ae490a957b377f7a3a57742022-12-22T00:32:06ZengWileyGeo: Geography and Environment2054-40492022-01-0191n/an/a10.1002/geo2.113Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdownUznir Ujang0Suhaibah Azri13D GIS Research Lab Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Johor Bahru Malaysia3D GIS Research Lab Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Johor Bahru MalaysiaAbstract Malaysia Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) aims to bring the business, education, tourism and other industry sectors back into operation. Due to movement constraints that result in local economic patterns, individual mobility patterns are expected to occur. However, this matter needs further investigation from people's spatial behaviour during the RMCO. Therefore, this research proposed a new technique for analysing people's spatial behaviour patterns via geo‐tagged data. The data from social media users are gathered using data mining techniques. Geographical Information System (GIS) is used to show the geolocation of social media users and analyse their spatial behaviour. The finding of this analysis shows higher people's movement recorded when the RMCO was enforced; a distinctive pattern where spatial trajectory length is high but spatial area coverage is low. It is noticed that the focal points are concentrated in urban areas and tourism attractions.https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.113COVID‐19geo‐tagged data miningindividual's mobilityRecovery Movement Control Orderspatial behaviour
spellingShingle Uznir Ujang
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Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown
Geo: Geography and Environment
COVID‐19
geo‐tagged data mining
individual's mobility
Recovery Movement Control Order
spatial behaviour
title Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown
title_full Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown
title_fullStr Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown
title_full_unstemmed Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown
title_short Individual mobility pattern in Malaysia during COVID‐19 Recovery Movement Control Order partial lockdown
title_sort individual mobility pattern in malaysia during covid 19 recovery movement control order partial lockdown
topic COVID‐19
geo‐tagged data mining
individual's mobility
Recovery Movement Control Order
spatial behaviour
url https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.113
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