Transport And Communications 2024, 12(2):1-10 | DOI: 10.26552/tac.C.2024.2.1

How Reliable Is Google And Facebook Mobility Data?

Péter Bucsky1
1 Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, University of Pécs (2021) / G7.hu, Budapesst, 1064, Budapest, Hungary

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists were eager to access mobility data to model the virus's spread. As human mobility and interaction play pivotal roles in virus transmission, data from tech companies, derived from mobile phone usage was hastily adopted. However, evidence suggests that these datasets lacked sufficient reliability, underscoring the importance for scientific research to exercise caution with new datasets lacking well-documented methodologies and transparent metadata.

Keywords: traffic counting, traffic measurement, transport statistics
JEL classification: L91, R41

Received: October 24, 2024; Revised: October 24, 2024; Accepted: December 3, 2024; Published: December 30, 2024  Show citation

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