The effect of digital lifestyle applications on non-work neighborhood-level mobility

The advancement of digital mobile applications has influenced individual behaviors in daily routines. In particular, daily lifestyle apps, such as those used for shopping and leisure, are altering neighborhood-level mobility patterns. These changes highlight the need to closely examine how digitalization is affecting short-distance travel within neighborhoods. This study investigates how the use of lifestyle mobile applications affects individual mobility patterns at the neighborhood level in Seoul, South Korea, using 2023 mobile phone–based origin-destination data. By integrating digital application usage data with spatial indicators such as population density, land-use mix, and facility proximity, this study evaluates the digital and physical determinants of neighborhood-level mobility, operationalized as the internal traffic ratio (ITR), defined as the proportion of non-work trips wit…