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3rd Candidate
Jordon Low, Dept. for Transport

Talk: Creating new population movement insight to shape the UK Government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic

When the UK locked down during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Government needed to rapidly understand the impact its actions were having on population mobility given this is a key driver of Coronavirus spread. It was critical to go beyond traditional modal specific data to get to an aggregate view. From first looking at Mobile Telecoms data on the day the UK went into lockdown, the Department for Transport’s Analytics Unit paused project delivery and within 2 days created a daily insights team supporting decision makers across government, including the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, devolved administrations and the NHS.

Working closely with O2, we built an agile daily insights team, streamlining our processes to meet timelines of minutes to hours. Over lockdown, the team continued to develop insights by linking this new data to existing sources and identifying connectivity between hot-spot areas, and deriving for the first time an estimate of Active travel, and a national cycling series now published weekly. The insights generated have supported Departmental and Wider Government Decision making throughout Lockdown and Restart and represent a step change in capability ensuring decision making is evidenced based and effectively monitored.

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