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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can use speed to filter for walking / biking as well as if their path stays on the road

Not perfect, but a really good guestimate

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Oh, they definitely could, but they didn't for this study. The way they said they collected information for this one was more focused on "are people changing movement behavior during COVID" so they just looked at start and stop points, distance and dwell time, anonymized to the county level.