What does a COVID recovery look like for businesses? 6 months after the initial lock-down we know that, in the US, the journey has been remarkably different for different types of businesses.
Our foot traffic indices capture trends that show just how varied the path has been. We looked at the...
A recent article on Wall Street Journal by Peter Grant took an insightful look at how truck stops in the US have been boosted this year, in part due to the increase in demand for e-commerce and delivery.
Travel Centers of America (NASDAQ:...
The RV market in the US looks like it may have found a new client base during the pandemic. As reported by the New York Times, companies like Cruise America, the largest RV rental company in the US, typically count on overseas visitors for about 40% of their bookings. The majority of these...
In this third blog post of our summer series, we review two different measures of economic activity that can help paint an overall picture of consumer trends.
Measuring foot traffic at consumer discretionary businesses helps us understand the extent to which people are back to shopping for...
One of the interesting things you can do with access to anonymized, large scale and accurate cellphone location data, is to measure traffic patterns. Consistent with the Big Data theme, we decided to compute this across the whole US, to measure Total Miles Driven.
Total Miles Driven is estimated...
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