Author: Laura Hintsanen

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!

Our article “Joukkoliikenteellä, autolla ja kävellen: Avoin saavutettavuusaineisto pääkaupunkiseudulla” (‘By public transportation, private car and walking: Open accessibility data set of Helsinki Region’) was published in Terra.

Our article also introduces a new article format ‘Data descriptions’ that is a publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets that aims at helping the researchers to publish, discover and reuse research data thus promoting open science.

Our work and accessibility related tools are introduced in an article that was published in City of Helsinki Urban Facts’ journal Kvartti. Journal is openly available here (in finnish/swedish).

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

 

We have two new publications available from our Publications page.

First one introduces methods (i.e. MetropAccess-Reititin tool) to calculate travel times in Helsinki Region based on public transportion schedules.

The second one introduces methods and tools to analyze travel times and speeds in Peruvian Amazonia based on our pilot Amazonia Riverboat Observation System (AROS) and Trajectory Reconstruction and Analysis Tool (TRAT) that is designed to analyse and extract information from AROS GPS-data.

We had two presentations from our group in OGRS 2014 conference dedicated to exchanging ideas on and results from development and use of open source geospatial software in both research and education.

Juha Järvi had a presentation about the MetropAccess-Reititin (i.e. Router) which is a tool designed to analyze travel times and accessibility in urban areas based on public transportation schedules.

Henrikki Tenkanen had a presentation about our accessibility research in Peruvian Amazonia. He told about the pilot observation system (AROS) that we have developed for tracking the local riverboats navigating along the Amazonian rivers and about the open source analysis tool (TRAT) that is developed to analyze the data from the observation system.

Our project leader Tuuli Toivonen was selected 29.04.2014 as new tenure track professor at the Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki. Tuuli will start in her new position in the autumn of 2014.

Congratulations Tuuli!

In MetropAccess research group we have produced GIS datasets concerning accessibility issues in Helsinki Metropolitan region. We have calculated travel times and distances from all FEI (Finnish Environment Institute) YKR-grid cells to all YKR grid cells (n = 13230) by walking, public transportion and car.

More information and downloads from:
MetropAccess-Travel Time Matrix

MetropAccess research group will organize an accessibility-related workshop in 14.2.2014. Event will be held in Physicum building in the campus of Kumpula (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2).

In the workshop we will demonstrate analytical tools that we have developed for analysing accessibility by different travel modes in Helsinki metropolitan region.

More information and registration can be found here. (in finnish only).

Katumetro research programme granted us continuation for our funding. Our work continues!