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. 2021 Jan 9;124:102955. doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2020.102955

Table 3.

Estimation Results of the Generalized Additive Mixed Models for Human Mobility (From February 1st, 2020 to May 31st, 2020).

Δ Trip per person Δ Proportion of staying home Δ Person-miles traveled
Parametric coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error P-value Estimate Std. Error P-value Estimate Std. Error P-value
(Intercept) −0.152 0.095 0.110 0.065 0.011 0.000 *** −3.404 2.309 0.140

COVID-19 New cases −0.550 0.019 0.000 *** 0.115 0.003 0.000 *** −2.680 0.554 0.000 ***
Adj. new cases −0.252 0.006 0.000 *** 0.051 0.001 0.000 *** −4.138 0.164 0.000 ***
National new cases −0.001 0.000 0.000 *** 0.000 0.000 0.000 *** −0.051 0.008 0.000 ***
Policy Stay-at-home order: 1 −0.064 0.003 0.000 *** 0.007 0.000 0.000 *** −0.491 0.077 0.000 ***
Stay-at-home order: 2 −0.083 0.003 0.000 *** 0.011 0.000 0.000 *** −1.327 0.076 0.000 ***
Stay-at-home order: 3 −0.095 0.003 0.000 *** 0.014 0.000 0.000 *** −1.845 0.083 0.000 ***
Reopening order 0.049 0.005 0.000 *** −0.009 0.001 0.000 *** 0.364 0.152 0.017 *
Weather Precipitation −0.002 0.000 0.000 *** 0.000 0.000 0.000 *** −0.033 0.002 0.000 ***
Max. Temperature 0.009 0.000 0.000 *** −0.001 0.000 0.000 *** 0.033 0.003 0.000 ***
Socio-demographics Population density 0.004 0.003 0.127 −0.001 0.000 0.042 * 0.112 0.063 0.076 .
Male 0.369 0.106 0.001 *** −0.084 0.013 0.000 *** 9.645 6.591 0.144
Age_0_24 −0.154 0.098 0.115 −0.001 0.012 0.899 2.018 2.380 0.397
Age_25_40 −0.567 0.112 0.000 *** 0.112 0.013 0.000 *** −5.287 2.737 0.053 .
Age_40_65 −0.399 0.133 0.003 ** 0.025 0.016 0.118 2.302 3.234 0.477
Race-White 0.012 0.036 0.747 −0.005 0.004 0.218 1.970 1.267 0.120
Race-Hispanics −0.052 0.040 0.195 0.008 0.005 0.090 . −0.545 0.979 0.578
Race-African American 0.094 0.038 0.012 * −0.015 0.005 0.001 *** 3.408 0.907 0.000 ***
Race-Asian −0.137 0.130 0.293 0.066 0.015 0.000 *** −0.365 3.174 0.909
Median income −0.002 0.000 0.000 *** 0.000 0.000 0.000 *** −0.067 0.006 0.000 ***
Army personnel −0.193 0.131 0.141 0.016 0.016 0.310 −6.743 3.191 0.035 *
College students −0.409 0.085 0.000 *** 0.091 0.010 0.000 *** −6.771 2.073 0.001 **
Incarcerated ratio 0.227 0.236 0.335 −0.028 0.028 0.320 6.456 5.769 0.266
Political parties Democrats −0.155 0.032 0.000 *** 0.019 0.004 0.000 *** −1.204 0.575 0.036 *
Non-voters 0.065 0.052 0.211 −0.013 0.008 0.121 3.109 2.800 0.270
Industry Agriculture 0.033 0.045 0.460 −0.003 0.005 0.595 0.170 1.106 0.878
Retail 0.022 0.015 0.149 −0.008 0.005 0.131 −0.791 0.526 0.133
Educational −0.215 0.077 0.006 ** 0.020 0.009 0.027 * −1.746 0.891 0.050 *
Finance −0.092 0.038 0.017 * 0.023 0.009 0.015 * −6.973 1.922 0.000 ***
Transportation −0.045 0.056 0.420 0.013 0.007 0.048 * −0.253 1.378 0.854
Entertainment −0.333 0.158 0.034 * 0.075 0.021 0.000 *** 2.954 1.345 0.028 *
Accommodation −0.066 0.042 0.116 −0.005 0.005 0.316 −1.090 1.020 0.285
Health care 0.105 0.045 0.020 * −0.003 0.001 0.008 ** 0.445 0.227 0.049 *
Manufacturing −0.016 0.040 0.682 −0.003 0.005 0.543 −0.979 0.971 0.313
Temporal Weekend 0.156 0.028 0.000 *** −0.019 0.005 0.000 *** 1.213 0.622 0.051 .
Smooth terms:
e.d.f F P-value e.d.f F P-value e.d.f F P-value
s (Time Index) 8.998 9.000 0.000 *** 8.997 9.000 0.000 *** 8.993 9.000 0.000 ***
s (Week) 4.974 5.000 0.000 *** 4.985 5.000 0.000 *** 4.957 4.999 0.000 ***
s (County) 2828.020 3019.000 0.000 *** 2752.011 3019.000 0.000 *** 2773.656 3019.000 0.000 ***
s (State) 23.815 48.000 0.000 *** 27.026 48.000 0.000 *** 22.600 48.000 0.000 ***
s (Latitude, Longitude) 23.086 23.260 0.000 *** 24.363 24.580 0.000 *** 20.834 21.107 0.000 ***
Model fit:
R-sq.(adj) 0.652 0.708 0.545
fREML −15732 −678050 1,137,400

aSignificance codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1.

bs () refers to a spline function.