University of Helsinki
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
Urban Studies Days 2012 (kaupunkitutkimuksen päivät)
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).
The fastest mode of transportation in Helsinki Region is…
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.
The first National Geoinformatics Research Day
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:
Projects’ work on display in University of Helsinki’s magazines
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:
- Valtatienä Amazon Yliopisto 6–7/2011
- The Amazon Highway HUB 5/11
- Kumpulassa matka-aikaillaan Yliopistolainen 2/2012