APAC mobility Where is mobility recovering in APAC?

Data on auto congestion, public transit, and the number of people going to work (foot traffic) provides a glimpse of whether activity is starting to get back to normal around the globe.

15 May 2020
  • India and Australia are steadily but slowly recovering across all three metrics.
  • South Korea's trends are generally neutral.
  • Japan continues to decelerate across all three mobility metrics.
  • Indonesia may be seeing a downward inflection in travel to work and public transit.
Sign up for the latest insights
Back to Covid-19 insights

Source: UBS Evidence Lab, TomTom, Moovit, Google LLC "Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports" Accessed: April 28, 2020

Notes: All migration figures are measured as relative metrics vs. a base rate. The auto congestion base is the base congestion score for a given day in 2020 relative to the average congestion for the comparable day in 2019; public transit data is indexed to the value registered on January 15; foot traffic data is indexed to the baseline median value for the corresponding day of the week during the 5-week period Jan 3–Feb 6, 2020. For public transit, population-weighted country figures were derived from baseline city figures. The data is further normalized to remove weekends and several key holidays (country by country), which create abnormal trends in the data. Relative auto congestion is presented as a percent difference from 100%. Please see downloadable asset for the full methodology or underlying data.