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On the 6th of February there was a held a meeting within the framework of the survey „MobilGen“ – “The impact of genetic variation in human behavior in time and space”. The aim was to obtain an overview of the current state of the study, the current sample (socio-demographic characteristics, etc.) was presented, and the…

From October 23 to 25, 2013 the conference „Mobile Ghent ‘13“ was held in the city of Ghent (Belgium). The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and experts from around the world to discuss emerging topics and research findings across various fields related to location tracking. From the Mobility Lab of University of Tartu…

Matthew Zook, Fulbright visiting professor from University of Kentucky Tuesday  15.10. at 14.15 Department of Geography of University of Tartu In Granö Auditorium (Vanemuise 46-327) NEW!!! Video here: http://www.uttv.ee/naita?id=18207 Professor Zook researches technological change and the evolving spatial structures and practices of society and the economy. His work focuses on geocoded user-generated data including Google Maps…

UT Mobility Lab were invited to speak in the final conference of the Move project of the European COST program (http://www.move-cost.info), held at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria on the 30th of September and 1st of October 2013. The objective of COST MOVE is the theoretical and methodological development of the geography of moving objects…

University of Tartu Mobility Lab (R. Ahas) and Positium LBS (M. Tiru) were invited to partake in the European Directors General of the National Statistics Institutes (DGINS) Conference and the Meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), held in The Hague, Netherlands, on the 25th-27th September 2013, with the main topic of this year’s…

Rein Ahas participates in the project of European Comission „The Smart Cities and Communities European Innovation Partnership (EIP)“. He is the member of the associated Sherpa group. The partnership aims at catalysing progress towards industrial-scale deployment of innovative Smart City solutions at the intersection of energy, transport and information and communication technologies so to significantly…

Meetings with the labs and spin-off enterprises of University of Helsinki have been held. Also the researches and projects of University of Tartu have been presented. Delegation included: V. Kalm, E. Puura, M. Kirm, A. Metspalu, R. Ahas, S. Üprus. Rein Ahas made a presentation: “Toolbox for using BIG Telecom data for applications in tourism, logistics and…

Prof. Harry Timmermans from Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands is in Tartu from 6.-7.th of May. During his stay he is giving a lecture in University of Tartu on the subject “Effects of Fuel Price Fluctuation on Dynamics in Individual Travel Behavior: Evidence from a Pseudo-Panel”. The lecture is part of the seminar which is organised…

Overview of the sessions and timetable as follows. Paper Session: 1129 Geography and Mobile Phone Data: from theory to empiricsis scheduled on Tuesday, 4/9/2013, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Santa Monica C, Westin, Level 3Sponsorship(s):Communication Geography Specialty Group Organizer(s):Emmanouil Tranos – Vrije UniversityRein Ahas – Department of Geography, University of Tartu Chair(s):Emmanouil Tranos – Vrije University…

Seminar programme Seminar photo from 15.03.2013 Presentations: TOPIC: RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND NEIGHBOURHOODS’ CHANGE: WESTERN EXPERIENCES Keynote 1: Presentation_Sako_Musterd Keynote 2: Presentation_Roger_Andersson TOPIC: RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND NEIGHBOURHOODS’ CHANGE: EAST EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES Keynote 3: Presentation_Zoltán_Kovács  Presentation_Tiit_Tammaru Presentation_Szymon_Marcińczak TOPIC: RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY AND URBAN SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT Keynote 4: Presentation_Maarten_van_Ham Presentation_Patrick_Laube Presentation_Martin_Ouředníček Presentation_Anneli_Kährik_Kati_Kadarik TOPIC: ETHNIC SEGREGATION OF ACTIVITY SPACES Keynote 5: Donggen Wang, Yiohong Yuan…