id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-326173-3x435v6q Beck, Matthew J. Insights into the impact of COVID-19 on household travel and activities in Australia – The early days of easing restrictions 2020-08-18 .txt text/plain 11515 433 55 We find that work from home has been a generally positive experience with a significant number of respondents liking to work from home moving forward, with varying degrees of employer support, at a level above those seen before COVID-19. Likewise, the Google Community Mobility Report (Google 2020) presented in Figure 4 (which aggregates data across Australia and compares to the median value for the corresponding day of the week during the 5-week period Jan 3-Feb 6, 2020 as a baseline) shows a sustained increase in time spent at work, retail and recreation, and parks, while time at home has slowly diminished. Given the anecdotal evidence in new media sources about increased use of active travel modes (Abano 2020, Landis-Hanley 2020) and greater use of public spaces for exercise and recreation (O'Sullivan 2020), questions were included in Wave 2 around whether or not respondents had felt they had increased or decreased use of different modes in the previous week, and how they were planning to change their use as restrictions were eased. ./cache/cord-326173-3x435v6q.txt ./txt/cord-326173-3x435v6q.txt