Get Citymapper's mobility index

Source: R/get_mob_idx.R

As of mid-March Citymapper has launched a City Mobility index to observe which cities are following lockdown measures during COVID-19 pandemic. Data is calculated comparing the number of trips planned on the app to a typical usage period. Here for a detailed description.

get_mob_idx(
  start_date = "2020-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  city = NA,
  weekly = FALSE,
  cache = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

start_date

First observed day with format YYYY-MM-DD
end_date

Last observed day with format YYYY-MM-DD
city

(optional) A vector containing specific cities to filter for (e.g "milan", lower-case). This obviously follow Citymapper's coverage.
weekly

Get weekly data (default is daily)
cache

(bool) cache results to filesystem
verbose

Show download progress bar

Value

A data frame containing the following columns:

  • big_change: (bool) Whether there was a consisten change with previous day.

  • cange_from_previous: Difference with previous day.

  • date: Observation date

  • type: Weekly or daily observation.

  • region_id: Region slug.

  • value: Index value.

  • city_name: Name of oberved city