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RC33 Conference 2016 – 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology was held in 11.-16. September 2016 in Leicester, UK. One of the emerging issues was the impact of new research skills and the big data revolution on teaching and research in social sciences. Olle in collaboration with an Estonian sociologist Dr. Anu Masso from ETH Zurich presented their ongoing research on evaluating big data approach (mobile phone data-based methodology) against conventional questionnaire survey method for investigating individual human mobility in space-time. Case study is about language group differences in individual activity space in Estonia.

Thanks to WCTR 2016, Olle had a chance to meet with professor Makoto Tsukai from Hiroshima University. This led to a short-noticed meeting at our department on August 5^th. With a special focus on implementing novel (big) data sources in transport research Accessibility Research Group presented past and current work to five Japanese professors from the University of Hiroshima, Tottori and Miyazaki. In turn, guests introduced their current work in this field.

We kindly thank our guests for the presents from Hiroshima and already looking forward to join our research!

Accessibility Research Group was present at 14^th World Conference on Transport Research in Shanghai, China, 10. – 15.07.2016. Olle presented a poster of our ongoing work about dynamic accessibility modelling and mobile phone-based data. Thank you WCTR and Shanghai for the great opportunity to receive encouraging feedback from our work and new exciting contacts for a future collaboration!

Accessibility Research Group and the SomeCon-project started the new academic year with a two-day getaway in Lohjanjärvi, Southern Finland!

The program included intensive brainstorming, goal-setting, mushroom-picking and listening to the silence of the lake.

The upcoming year is anticipated to be interesting with new papers coming out, new people joining the team and interesting activities (conferences, teaching, workshops) coming up.

Accessibility Research Group and SoMeCon project is actively present in this years Mobile Tartu Conference. Tuuli gives a keynote on the use of social media data on mobility studies, Henrikki presents our works in Kruger National Park (SA) with social media data and Olle tells about dynamic accessibility modelling in urban environments. Vuokko is our guerilla poster representive! Greetings from Tartu!

Accessibility Research Group was actively present at  the 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science in Helsinki, Finland. Henrikki Tenkanen gave a talk on our open data for accessibility and travel time analyses and Olle Järv presented a poster on dynamic accessibility modeling. See also the poster on social media data by the SomeCon-project!

 

Kuntaliitto has published a report on the use and impact of the Finnish libraries. Chapter 8 with the title “Kirjaston vaikuttavuuden ulottuvuuksia lainausdatan ja kyselytutkimusten valossa” presents results by Jaani Lahtinen and Jouni Juntumaa, featuring also our data. See the full report (in Finnish) from here.

The Helsinki Region Travel Time Matrix for 2015 is now ready thanks to the efforts of Henrikki and Vuokko in particular! We are still testing the data and will make the official release in January 2016. If you need the data urgently during the holiday season, please contact Vuokko!

Our group got, in collaboration with conservation scientists Enrico Di Minin and Anna Hausmann, a considerable funding to study the potential of social media data in spatial planning, mobility research and conservation science. With this funding we can hire one PhD student and one post-doc for 3-4 years. We are grateful and happy!