After the Mobile Tartu Conference, our team continued straight into the next event from June 11–13, when the EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network Annual Forum took place in Tartu. We were very happy to welcome Doctoral Training Network PhD researchers, their supervisors, alumni, network coordinators at the Technical University of Munich, EIT Urban Mobility…
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Mobile Tartu 2026
How can better data and scientific knowledge create more sustainable and just mobility systems? This question ran through nearly every keynote, presentation, discussion, and informal conversation during our recent Mobile Tartu 2026 conference, which brought 150 researchers, planners, policymakers, and practitioners from 26 countries to the University of Tartu between 7–10 June. Across four days, the…
Looking back at the online lecture series “Mobility Analysis and Planning for Human-Scale Cities” 2026
The public online lecture series “Mobility Analysis and Planning for Human-Scale Cities” was held for the fifth time this year. If you missed a lecture or would like to watch it again, all recordings are available on our website and YouTube channel. The 2026 programme featured five expert speakers from diverse backgrounds, with a focus…
Reflections from a month at Mobility Lab
Over the past month, we had the pleasure of hosting Adam Stražovec, a PhD student from Palacký University in Olomouc, in our lab in Tartu. Adam engaged well with our team and brought positive energy to the lab throughout his stay. Now that he has returned to Olomouc, we are sharing some photos from his…
How can universities help cities build better cycling and walking policies?
Cities across Europe are aiming to make urban mobility more sustainable, healthier, and more inclusive. Walking and cycling are central to this shift. Yet turning research into real policy change is not always straightforward. In a recent scoping review published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Michele Donnini and Age Poom explore how academic knowledge supports…
Ethnic exposure in activity places: a study using survey and GPS-tracking data
In what activity places are ethno-linguistic minority and majority in Tallinn more exposed to each other, and where are they more separated? A new article by our Lab members Siiri Silm, Veronika Mooses, and Ago Tominga, together with Tiit Tammaru (CMUS), examines ethnic exposure across the full range of activity places. The study advances activity‑space…
A new project is starting
Under the leadership of Siiri, a new project has been launched: SMob4All: Sustainable Mobility for All: Potential, Barriers, Enablers As the name of the project suggests, its aim is to study sustainable mobility that is accessible and inclusive for all. To this end, the project seeks to create new knowledge on sustainable mobility practices and…
Autumn semester 2025/2026
We have just closed the autumn semester! As part of the academic life, our lab members were actively involved in teaching at all study levels. Here, we’d like to bring out courses in which we interact with the students the most. In the Fundamentals of Human Geography course, taught by Tiit Tammaru and Ago Tominga,…
Bike share success in cities big and small: Lessons from Helsinki and Tartu
Our researcher Karl Saidla, together with Age Poom and Siiri Silm from our lab, colleagues Elias Willberg from Digital Geography Lab (University of Helsinki) and Bryan Vallejo from GIST Lab (Aalto University), and further assistance from Megan McTavish, has published a research article on bike share systems’ success in Tartu and Helsinki. The study explores…
Lab year 2025
At the dawn of 2026, it’s again time to look back what the past year brought to the Mobility Lab! We’re a group of researchers keen in human mobility studies and geospatial analytics. Our research is not only about understanding the society and human behaviour in its socio-spatial context, but also how that knowledge could…