University of Helsinki
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)
Paper out on modelling accessibility with shared bicycles
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]
MetropAccess in the Nordic Geographers Meeting in Iceland
The 5th Nordic Geographers Meeting was held in Reykjavík, Iceland, 11 – 14 June 2013. MetropAccess participated in the “Responsible Mobilities” session with a presentation that was done in collaboration with the Everyday Urbanity -project (Aalto University). We also had our poster in the poster session.
MetropAccess continues during 2013!
MetropAccess got again funding from the Helsinki Metropolitan Region Urban Research Program – new research topics during the new year!
Academic dissertation on accessibility
Tuuli Toivonen is the opponent in Ossi Kotavaara´s defence, held at the University of Oulu on 5 December 2012. The title of the academic dissertation is “Accessibility, population change and scale dependency – Exploring geospatial patterns in Finland, 1880–2009”
Our accessibility analysis tools support the City plan process in Helsinki
Accessibility analysis tools, developed by MetropAccess, were used in an accessibility report published by the City planning department of Helsinki. The report is part of the currently on-going City plan process, and can be downloaded here (available in Finnish).
Accessibility sessions in the annual meeting of Finnish Geographers
The annual meeting of Finnish geographers (Geography Days) was held in Helsinki during 26.–27.10.2012. We organized two accessibility sessions that gathered a variety of interesting presentations from different universities and departments. The first session on Friday focused on accessibility from the perspective of networks and the theme of the second session on Saturday was accessibility in landscapes. The abstracts of all presentations (in Finnish) can be downloaded from the Geography Days’ website (Accessibility in networks: abstracts / Accessibility in landscapes: abstracts).
OKFestival
Open data sources and freely available software are important for our studies both in the Helsinki region and in Amazonia. Examples from both study areas were presented at the Open Knowledge Festival (17-22.9.2012) that focused on questions of open knowledge and open data.
The title of Tuuli´s presentation was “Accessibility analysis in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area – using open data sources to model spatial accessibility patterns”
and Henrikki´s topic was “Riverboats of the Amazon: Automated Data Mining and GIS-analyses of GPS-based river navigation data with OS-Softwares”.
Presenting Amazonian accessibility studies in Mobile Tartu 2012
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:
MetropAccess in the IFLA conference
Jaani Lahtinen presented library related accessibility analyses by MetropAccess in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference:
Libraries Now! – Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering – WLIC 2012 Helsinki 11.-17. 8.2012