Registration for the lecture series is open! Find out more from this website Already for the second time, the Mobility Lab of the University of Tartu invites all people interested in mobility analysis, transport planning and urban liveability to take part in the public online lecture series “Mobility Analysis and Transport Planning for Human-Scale Cities”. …
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A new member joins the team!
Postitus eesti keeles The Mobility Lab has a new member – a specialist Jürgen Öövel, who also is an undergraduate in Geography! In order to get to know him better, he answered to three questions. Welcome, Jürgen! Why did you choose geography? Ever since I was a small kid, I have had a pull toward…
Year 2022 for the Mobility Lab
Another year is passing by, and it is time to look back to its glories and challenges! The highlight of the year was most certainly the 8th Mobile Tartu Conference and the related PhD Course, held both in Palamuse and in Tartu on June 28–30. The conference was a happy post-pandemic reunion of the mobility…
New Visiting Professors Nominated
We are delighted to announce that Professor Matthew Zook from the University of Kentucky, USA, and Professor Jukka M. Krisp from Augsburg University, Germany, have been nominated to the Visiting Professors of the Mobility Lab and the Department of Geography of the University of Tartu starting from January 2023. This will continue and formalise our…
Mobility Lab at the International Conference on Location Based Services
On September 12-14, the 17th International Conference on Location Based Services took place in Munich. The conference was held on the roof floor of one of the Technical University of Munich buildings, and from the balconies surrounding it, there was a view of a warm and sunny city hastily preparing for Oktoberfest. Our Mobility Lab…
Reflections from the Mobile Tartu 2022 Conference and the PhD Course
On June 29-30, human mobility researchers all over the world gathered again in Tartu for the eighth international Mobile Tartu Conference and PhD Course, which focused on mobility and mobile big data-based research. This was a happy in-person reunion of the research community after the last Mobile Tartu conference in 2020 was held virtually. This…
Warm light for a cold winter night in Tartu
Author: Karl Saidla Winter darkness is for real here. In December, the sun comes up after 9, and disappears between 3 and 3:30. If you are going or coming home from work or school, or doing any other kind of extra curricular activity, it will be dark. It is also cold. Not as cold on…
Human mobility researchers gathered at virtual conference Mobile Tartu 2020
The 7th mobility research conference Mobile Tartu was held on 30 June, brought together leading human mobility researchers from around the world. More than 240 participants from 48 countries registered. This year’s event was a virtual conference, and participation was free. The need to analyse people’s location and mobility is very important in today’s society.…
Mobile Tartu 2020 – International Conference and PhD Course
International Conference and PhD Course from 29th of June to 1st of July 2020 in Tartu, Estonia. WEBPAGE: https://mobiletartu.ut.ee/ 7th Mobile Tartu biennial conference invites researchers who are interested in human mobility and mobility data. Explorations on practical applications of mobility data: CDR, signaling, GPS, crowd-sourced social media etc. are highly anticipated. Conference focuses on the latest advancements in theoretical, methodological…
Mobility Lab is participating in three new EU projects
Mobility Lab is a project partner in three new fascinating EU projects: BuildERS – Building European Communities’ Resilience and Social Capital Our researcher Siiri Silm participated in a kick-off meeting for this project from 8th to 10th of May in Tampere, Finland. Mobility Lab’s task in this project is is to find a way how…