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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…

4.6.14. Research Group: Department of Geography, Ecology & Earth Sciences: Human Geography and Regional Planning The group is led by Prof. Rein Ahas. The research focuses on using computer science techniques to interpret and visualize large-scale data related to active position system, mobile tracking and localization. The group has produced 42 ETIS 1.1. and a…

Prof. Wan Wanggen from Shangai University Smart City Institute visited department of human geography. During the meeting it was discussed about collaboration and student exchange between Shanghai University and University of Tartu. Prof Wan Wanggen talked about  ”Smart City – research and studies in China”. Department of Human geography are going to visit Shanghai University during…

12 February 14.15-16.00 Vanemuise 46-108 R. Ahas – Theoretical and methodological outlines of trajectory analysesM.J. Kraak – Cartographic methods and tools for analysing space-time mobilityU. Vainik – Research objectives and methodological issues from perspective of eating behavior