Mobile Tartu conference aims to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of mobile positioning based research and applications in geography and planning. Maria is presenting our work with a presentation titled:
“Understanding Amazonian rivers and transportation: New opportunities provided by mobile positioning technology”
We are hanging out a poster too:
Jaani Lahtinen presented library related accessibility analyses by MetropAccess in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference:
The 10th Urban Studies Days were held in Helsinki on 3.-4.5.2012. This year the theme of the days was urban images and visions. Our research group participated on two sessions; open data and maps of everyday life. You can find our abstracts from the below (in Finnish).
Accessibility analysis made by MetropAccess research group was published in Vihreä Lanka as a part of story about a playful race between the travel modes. In the race, competitors traveled from Espoo to Kamppi to see which mode of transportation is fastest in the Helsinki Region. Results of the race was then compared to the accessibility analysis made by MetropAccess research group. Read the whole story from here.
Is this the fastest mode of transportation in Helsinki Region?
Our research group took part to the first National Geoinformatics Research Day held in Kumpula 17.4.2012. Accessibility as a research topic was covered in several of the presentations and we gave one as well from our viewpoint. See the presentations from below:
Our work has recently been on display in several University of Helsinki’s publications. Our accessibility research of riverine Amazonia were dealt both in Yliopisto and in Helsinki University Bulletin. Our work on accessibility issues in Helsinki Metropolitan Area was presented with an example of Kumpula Campus in Yliopistolainen.
Check out the stories:
Our group had two presentations in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York. Check out our abstracts:
As part of the MetropAccess-project we gather interview data from libraries, asking people about their perceptions on accessibility.
Our Amazonia-related results were presented in Tropentag 2011 Conference in Bonn. Our proceedings paper is listed on the Publications page, and our presentation can be found in the Tropentag blog.
During August and September we started to gather long-term data on river navigation routes and speeds in the Peruvian Amazonia. A few river boat companies are collaborating with us and together with them we established a pilot system of tracking devices that send real-time location information from river boats to our server.
This information is made available for the local actors trough an sms service. The long-term monitoring data will be used to analyze the spatio-temporal changes in river navigation and accessibility patterns. More information regarding this project will soon be available on this site.
Masusa harbour in September