Our research group is organising a mini-symposium on
Utilising novel spatial data sources in analyzing and understanding human mobility patterns and accessibility
on Thursday, November 6th, between 2pm-4pm at Kumpula campus, Exactum room C124 :
* Rein Ahas, the University of Tartu, talking about using mobile phone data in analyzing the spatial mobility patterns
* Anders Larsson and Erik Elldér, University of Gothenburg, about human spatial interaction and mobility in various forms
Welcome!
We have new publication out in Applied Geography:
“Do suburban residents prefer the fastest or low-carbon travel modes? Combining public participation GIS and multimodal travel time analysis for daily mobility research” by Maria Salonen, Anna Broberg, Marketta Kyttä and Tuuli Toivonen.
See the full article here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622814001465
Katumetro research programme granted us continuation for our funding. Our work continues!
Henrikki defended his MSc thesis in November and got Laudatur! Here is Henrikki’s work “Geographic knowledge discovery from sparse GPS-data – Revealing spatio-temporal patterns of Amazonian river transports”:
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/42210
Our new paper is out in Ambio!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24165869
Here, we tested different accessibility measures in land use / land cover change models in Amazonia. Proper time distance surfaces are most useful when doing modelling the deforestation patterns of the Peruvian Amazonia. However, also combinations of Euclidean distance surfaces (Euclidean distance from the cities and from the rivers) perform fairly well at least in our study area.
We have a paper out!
Salonen, M. & Toivonen, T. (2013) Modelling travel time in urban networks: comparable measures for private car and public transport. Journal of Transport Geography, 31, 143-153. (online)
We have a paper out!
Jäppinen, S., Toivonen, T. & Salonen, M. (2013). Modelling the potential effect of shared bicycles on public transport travel times in Greater Helsinki: An open data approach. Applied Geography 43, 13-24. [online]
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:
Since the beginning of 2010 the Department of Geosciences and geography at the University of Helsinki has had a research group dedicated to studying spatial patterns of accessibility. The group is composed of six people and lead by PhD Tuuli Toivonen.
We run two parallel and closely interconnected research projects under the accessibility theme: Spatial modeling of accessibility – methods and applications in environmental research is a three-year project focusing on accessibility in the Western Amazonia and in Finland. During 2011 the MetropAccess–project addresses accessibility questions within the context of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
On this site we present the background and aims of our research and report the currently ongoing activities and latest results. The Finnish version of the site is available here.