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Alex: /* London Traffic */

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London Traffic

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	[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]		[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]

			[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph_condensed.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph_condensed.small.png">]

	Official Lockdown was [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52012432 introduced in the UK] on 2020-03-23 though the actual response to it was a little more gradual as you can see from the graph that week. We see the quietest period the following week: 2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05. From then on there is a gradual increase in activity. Official easing of Lockdown in England began [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html on 2020-05-11], though		Official Lockdown was [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52012432 introduced in the UK] on 2020-03-23 though the actual response to it was a little more gradual as you can see from the graph that week. We see the quietest period the following week: 2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05. From then on there is a gradual increase in activity. Official easing of Lockdown in England began [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html on 2020-05-11], though

Alex: /* About */

2021-07-22T23:58:15Z

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	<blockquote style="background-color: #ececec; padding: 10px; border:solid thin grey">		<blockquote style="background-color: #ececec; padding: 10px; border:solid thin grey">
	This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this. The [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing, though this page has the merit of being more-or-less real-time. ~~(And yes, obviously it should be processed to give a clearer reading that is independent of the daily and weekly fluctuations.)~~		This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this. The [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing, though this page has the merit of being more-or-less real-time.
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Alex: /* About */

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	<blockquote style="background-color: #ececec; padding: 10px; border:solid thin grey">		<blockquote style="background-color: #ececec; padding: 10px; border:solid thin grey">
	This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this. The [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing, though this page has the merit of being more-or-less real-time.		This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this. The [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing, though this page has the merit of being more-or-less real-time. (And yes, obviously it should be processed to give a clearer reading that is independent of the daily and weekly fluctuations.)
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Alex at 14:53, 1 January 2021

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	This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this~~, though the official~~ [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing.		This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this. The [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing, though this page has the merit of being more-or-less real-time.
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Alex at 19:29, 6 December 2020

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			= About =

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			<blockquote style="background-color: #ececec; padding: 10px; border:solid thin grey">
			This was an attempt at collecting an external indication of the level of restrictions society is operating under by looking at the level of traffic congestion in London. I was curious to see what you could glean from a simple measure such as this, though the official [https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Google Mobility Reports] provide a far more comprehensive version of this kind of thing.
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			= London Traffic =

	[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]		[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]

Alex at 00:04, 24 May 2020

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	[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]		[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]

	Lockdown was [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52012432 introduced in the UK] on 2020-03-23 though the actual response to it was a little more gradual~~. Some activity was reduced voluntarily in the preceding week or two (unfortunately not shown in~~ the graph ~~because I only thought to collect the data from around 21 March), while on the other side, the full effects were not felt for another~~ week~~: we~~ see the quietest period 2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05. From then on there is a gradual increase in activity. Official easing of Lockdown in England began [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html on 2020-05-11], though		Official Lockdown was [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52012432 introduced in the UK] on 2020-03-23 though the actual response to it was a little more gradual as you can see from the graph that week. We see the quietest period the following week: 2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05. From then on there is a gradual increase in activity. Official easing of Lockdown in England began [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html on 2020-05-11], though
	we can see from the above graph the pattern of rush hour, indicated by spikes in the morning and afternoon, had been establishing itself from at least a week before that. (Friday 2020-05-08 was a public holiday incidentally.)		we can see from the above graph the pattern of rush hour, indicated by spikes in the morning and afternoon, had been establishing itself from at least a week before that. (Friday 2020-05-08 was a public holiday incidentally.)

Alex at 02:06, 23 May 2020

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	[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]		[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]

	~~The~~ graph above ~~is derived~~ from ~~Google map's traffic congestion information as colour~~-~~coded in images like this one~~		Lockdown was [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52012432 introduced in the UK] on 2020-03-23 though the actual response to it was a little more gradual. Some activity was reduced voluntarily in the preceding week or two (unfortunately not shown in the graph because I only thought to collect the data from around 21 March), while on the other side, the full effects were not felt for another week: we see the quietest period 2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05. From then on there is a gradual increase in activity. Official easing of Lockdown in England began [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html on 2020-05-11], though
			we can see from the above graph the pattern of rush hour, indicated by spikes in the morning and afternoon, had been establishing itself from at least a week before that. (Friday 2020-05-08 was a public holiday incidentally.)

	[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/London.2020-05-22T18:00+01:00.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/London.2020-05-22T18:00+01:00.small.png">].		The above graph is derived from Google map's traffic congestion information as colour-coded in images like this one

			[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/London.2020-05-22T18:00+01:00.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/London.2020-05-22T18:00+01:00.small.png">]

			by counting the number of pixels that represent the levels of congestion in Google map's system (green, orange, red, dark red).

			The raw data file [http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficlevels is available here] (updated daily).

			The programs used to make it are [https://github.com/alex1770/Covid-19/tree/master/Traffic available in this repository].

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[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/trafficgraph.small.png">]

The graph above is derived from Google map's traffic congestion information as colour-coded in images like this one

[http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/London.2020-05-22T18:00+01:00.png <img src="http://sonorouschocolate.com/covid19/extdata/London.2020-05-22T18:00+01:00.small.png">].