Mobile Tartu 9th biennial conference and a PhD School

The conference series connects a strong community of mobility researchers, both early career researchers and leading scholars, as well as professionals from public and private sectors to discuss the latest research and applications in human mobility and mobile big data.

The conference features keynote speeches, panel discussions, paper sessions, and a rich social programme with vibrant discussions about the conceptual, methodological, and empirical aspects of measuring mobility with the help of mobile big data and understanding related socio-spatial and human-environmental interactions. The conference also includes a PhD School with lectures, poster sessions, and hands-on workshops on mobile big data applications for understanding human mobility.

The special themes of Mobile Tartu 2024 will be:

mobility justice and socio-spatial inequalities,
mobile big data analytics to inform climate change adaptation and crises preparedness,
methodological advances, including AI-aided solutions in human mobility research.
 

Beyond the special themes, we invite a broad range of contributions on human mobility and mobile big data analytics based on mobile phone, social media, GPS, or mobile applications data, discussing the following (but not limited to):

Measuring and understanding human mobility with mobile big data
Socio-spatial and environmental inequalities and human wellbeing
Social networks, digital technology, and spatial mobility
Associations between disasters/interruptions and spatial (im)mobility
Multi-local living and cross-border mobilities
Domestic and international tourism
Urban sustainability and liveability, sustainability transitions
Spatial and transport planning, urban governance, and smart cities
Official statistics
Data privacy, surveillance, and ethics
Open data, methods, and research practices
Tools and applications based on mobile big data
 

Find more information about the conference at https://mobiletartu.ut.ee.

Mobility

For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.

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