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11-12 September 2017, Tartu Estonia will be held “Workshop on data processing and analytics of smartphone and GPS data”. The aim of the workshop is to exchange ideas and develop research methods for processing, cleaning and analysing smartphone and GPS data. This could be the platform for developing European comparative study and H2020 project proposal with…

Our Mobility Lab member Age Poom defended her doctoral thesis titled ”Spatial aspects of the environmental load of consumption and mobility” on 2 March 2017 at University of Tartu Senate Hall.Supervisors: Professor PhD Rein Ahas, PhD Kati Orru;Opponent: Associate Professor PhD Tuuli Toivonen (University of Helsinki) The thesis addresses the dilemma between the environmental benefits…

Dear Livable City Forum Friend, University of Tartu and Tartu City Government are happy to welcome all of you to the 3rd Livable City Forum that will be held in Tartu, Estonia, on March 7-8th! The forum will address following questions: – Which are the principles of the spatial planning of university space?– How do…

Rein Ahas and Janika Raun from UT’s Mobility Lab introduced new ways of determining usual environment based on passive mobile positioning data (CDR) and smartphone based GPS data on the 14th Global Forum on Tourism Statistics. Usual environment-is important because tourism is defined by traveling outside the usual environment. Therefore, the size of usual environment affects…

Very good news! Our database “Infotechnological Mobility Observatory” (IMO) was added to Estonian Research Infrastructures Roadmap by Estonian Government on 27.10.2016 as “nationally important research infrastructure unit” http://www.etag.ee/en/funding/infrastructure-funding/estonian-research-infrastructures-roadmap/

This week visited us prof Matthew Zook from University of Kentucky.Prof Zook had lectures in the course of “Geography, communication and spatial mobility” which belongs to our “Urban Planning:Changing Cities and ICT” module. His research focuses on technological change and shifting geographies of globalisation, geography and e-commerce.

February 10 prof Robert Weibel is visiting us from Zürich University. He is giving a lecture at PhD seminar at 16.15 (Vanemuise 46-327) Topic: “Working Through the Scales: Towards Cross-scale Analysis of Movement Data” Abstract: The talk will first argue why movement analysis should move towards a cross-scale rather than single-scale approach. I will then show different…

Mobility Lab participates in the EU Horizon 2020 Smart Cities & Communities Lighthouse project SmartEnCity. The project presents a great substantive challenge – reconstruction of an existing city into a smart and energy-efficient community. Smart city solutions have been globally above all practiced on new houses and new city districts before, for example, one comprehensive…

Mobility Lab together with our cooperation partner Positium LBS had a research day in Kooraste at Vaaba residence. We made summaries of the ending academic year, discussed about developments of our ongoing research projects, brainstormed topics for future articles and made plans how to be more productive and successful next year. After long and creative…

Mobility Lab together with Migration and Urban Studies Lab visited one of the China`s most populous megacity`s Shanghai, which has grown over the past decades like no other city on the planet. During our stay in Shanghai we visited 3rd International Conference on Smart Sustainable City and Big Data, which was held by our research…