Resilience and Disruption in Mexico’s Intermunicipal Mobility Network: A Component Decomposition Approach

Erika Cruz Bonilla, Issa Moussa Diop, Christian Wolff, Hocine Cherifi y Maribel Hernández Rosales

Te invitamos a leer el artículo "Resilience and Disruption in Mexico’s Intermunicipal Mobility Network: A Component Decomposition Approach" publicado en "Complex Networks & Their Applications XIII " en el que colaboró la Dra. Maribel Hernández Rosales de Cinvestav Irapuato.

Autores:

Erika Cruz Bonilla, Issa Moussa Diop, Christian Wolff, Hocine Cherifi y Maribel Hernández Rosales 

Resumen:

Mexico’s intermunicipal mobility network reveals a sharp contrast in the pandemic’s effects. Using 731 daily networks from 2020 to 2021 and a component decomposition approach, the analysis shows that local components, representing short-distance travel, were heavily disrupted by mobility restrictions, leading to reduced connectivity and smaller community sizes. Meanwhile, global components, reflecting long-distance movement, remained resilient and structurally stable. These findings highlight how external shocks, like COVID-19 pandemic, proportionately impact local versus global mobility, revealing the robustness of long-distance networks in times of crisis.