Mobile Tartu

The aim of Mobile Tartu research seminar and International summer school for PhD students including special field exercise is to discuss theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of mobile positioning based applications in geography and planning and to share know-how between academic, public and private institutions.

Organised by: Chair of Human Geography, University of Tartu and Positium LBS,

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Objectives are:

to share know-how of mobile positioning applications between academic, public and private institutions;
to discuss aspects of data security, privacy and surveillance;
to introduce mobile positioning data and analyses in:
- human geography,
- urban planning,
- mobility studies,
- travel behavior research,
- tourism geography,
- traffic studies.

Target groups: Master- and PhD students, researchers and lecturers in disciplines of Geography, Economics, Public Administration, Architecture, Planning, GIS and IT Disciplines, practicing specialists from ICT companies

Mobile Tartu Doctoral School in Economics and Innovation is supported by Estonian Information Technology Foundation EITSA and Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences https://omi.ut.ee/et/omi-struktuur

Program

		Activity	Place
26.aug
	12.00	Bus to Field Experiment	Vanemuise st 46, Tartu
	13.00	Lunch	Leigo Farm-Hotel, Otepää region
	14.00	Mobile positioning and LBS in practice of mobile operator: EMT in Estonia	“	Argo Kivilo, Mati Kukk	EMT, Estonia
	14.30	Field Experiment: Tracing with mobile phones: 3 working groupstd>		Erki Saluveer, Margus Tiru, Anto Aasa	Positium LBS & EMT
	18.00	Field trip & tracking to Otepää tourist routes by bus	Otepää	Erki Saluveer	Positium LBS
	19.00	Dinner	Leigo Farm-Hotel, Otepää region
	20.00	Analysing, preparing presentations	“
	21.00	Round table: using positioning data in geographical studies
	22.00	Estonian Evening, Smoke sauna, lake…	“
27.aug			“
	7.30-8.30	Breakfast	Leigo Farm-Hotel, Otepää region
	8.30	Presentation: How Bank of Estonia uses mobile positionig data	“	Margus Tiru	Positium LBS
	9.00	Presentation of field works and discussion	“
	10.30	Departure to Tartu
		Not organised time: hotel, lunch…

	13.00	Registration	Department of Geography, Vanemuise 46, Tartu
	13.40	Opening	“
		Mobile methods I (chair R. Ahas)	“
	13.50	Keynote: Improving and replacing travel diaries using mobile tracing?	“	Prof. Kay Axhausen	ETAH
	14.30	Measurement of walking of elderly people using GPS technology	“	Kineret Cohen-Shalom	Department of Geography The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
	14.50	Non-response in GPS travel surveys	“	Peter Bro	Department of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University
	15.10	Generating OD matrixes and studying geographical distribution of traffic with passive mobile positioning data	“	Erki Saluveer	Positium LBS & University of Tartu, Estonia
	15.30	Coffee break	“
		Crowd management and emergency (Chair M. Tiru)	“
	15.50	Keynote: “Crowdsensing”	“	Prof. Carlo Ratti & Stephen Miles	MIT
	16.30	Mobile Positioning as a tool for measuring daily commuting areas	“	Anto Aasa	The University of Tartu, Department of Geography
	16.50	Visual Identification of Scattered Crowd Movement Patterns Using a Directed Kernel Density Estimation	“	Jukka M. Krisp, Stefan Peters, Florian Burkert, Matthias Butenuth	University of Technology, Munich (TUM)
	17.10	Analysing spatial and temporal sequences in Bluetooth tracking data	“	Matthias Delafontaine, Mathias Versichele, Tijs Neutens, Nico Van de Weghe	CartoGIS Cluster, Department of Geography, Ghent University
	17.30	Coffee break	“
		Tourism (Chair J.M. Krisp)	“
	17.50	Keynote: Investigation of tourists’ activity patterns in a World City using GPS technology: Hong Kong as a case study	“	Prof. Noam Shoval, Bob McKercher	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
	18.30	Behaviour of Tartu airport travellers – The case of foreign tourists in Estonia	“	Mari-Liis Lamp	The University of Tartu, Department of Geography
	18.50	Opportunities and limitations of applying TelSKART© method in tourism policy and destination management	“	Wieslaw Alejziak	Chair of Tourism Economy University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow
	19.10	Detecting temporal rhythm on second home visitors from passive mobile positioning database	“	Siiri Silm	Department of Geography, University of Tartu
	20.00	Conference Dinner	Suudlevad tudengid, Raekoja plats 10
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28.aug		ICT and travel behaviour (Chair N. Shoval)	Department of Geography, Vanemuise 46, Tartu
	9.00	Keynote presentation: “Challenging the Meaning of Geographical Environments in Mobility Studies”	“	Prof. Martin Dijst	Utrecht University
	9.40	From Danwei to Gated Community in Transitional China: A Perspective of Residents’ Activity-travel Pattern	“	Ying Zhao, Yanwei Chai, Xiujun Ma	Department of Urban and Economic Geography, Peking University; Department of Machine Intelligence, Peking University
	10.00	ICT and sustainable mobility: The case of mobile phone positioning	“	Javier Gomez	Institut TELECOM, TELECOM & Management Sud Paris, ETOS/CEMANTIC
	10.20	Residence-based differences in everyday mobility: comparing commuters’ and non-commuters’ daily movement patterns in functional urban area of Tallinn	“	Olle Järv	The University of Tartu, Department of Geography
	10.40	Coffee break	“
		Mobile methods II- Analyses (chair Menno-Jan Kraak)	“
	11.00	Keynote: Analyses of repeated visitations and regularly visited places in tourism destination management		Prof. Rein Ahas, Andres Kuusik, Margus Tiru	The University of Tartu, Department of Geography; Department of Marketing; Positium LBS
	11.40	Location patterns from OpenStreetMap	“	Jaak Laineste	OÜ Nutiteq, Tartu, Estonia
	12.00	Discovering Aspects of Routine in High Resolution Time-Space Data	“	Michal Isaacson	Department of Geography The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
	12.20	Parisian Rhythms: weekend’s activity via GSM data	“	Cezary Ziemlicki, Zbigniew Smoreda, Christophe Cariou	SENSe/Orange Labs, Paris, France
	12.40	Lunch	“
		Visualisation (Chair Anto Aasa)	“
	14.00	Keynote presentation: Aspect of physical and social network visualizations	“	Prof. Menno-Jan Kraak	University of Twente, Netherlands,Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation
	14.40	Mapping solutions for visualization of catchment’s areas and activity spaces using mobile positioning data	“	Tiiu Kelviste, Raivo Aunap	The University of Tartu, Department of Geography
	15.00	The Space Time Cube revisited: it potential to visualize mobile data	“	Irma Kveladze, Prof. Menno-Jan Kraak	University of Twente, Netherlands, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation
	15.20	Developing visual representations for multiple movement data sets associated with geographic networks	“	Qiuju Zhang, Connie A. Blok, Menno-Jan Kraak	University of Twente,Netherlands, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation
	15.40	Coffee break	“
		Urban studies (Chair M. Dijst)	“
	16.00	Land-use Changes and Everyday Commuting Patterns in Post-socialist City	“	Jakub Novák	Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University in Prague
	16.40	Kids Out! – Urban environments and physical activity among children and adolescents	“	Ari Hynynen	Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture
	17.00	Ethnic Segregation in Everyday Activity Spaces – Estonian and Russian Communities in Tallinn	“	Kerli Müürisepp, Rein Ahas	Department of Geography, University of Tartu
	17.20	Closing
	20.00	Not too official dinner&party!!!	Will be announced	Olle Järv

Presentation: 15 min + discussion
Prepare your slides and place them on the computer before the session starts!

Tartu

Registration

The registration is now closed.

Abstract submission extended

The deadline for abstract submission to the Mobile Tartu 2010 has been extended to April 25.
Extended abstracts 800 words (send to mobiletartu@ut.ee).

Participation fee

Participation fee	Paid before 15 June 2010	Paid after 15 June 2010
Presenter	130 EUR	170 EUR
Regular	240 EUR	310 EUR
Student	90 EUR	120 EUR

Pre-conference field experiment fee
Presenter & student	60 EUR	80 EUR
Regular	90 EUR	120 EUR

Participation fee includes conference on 27 and 28 August, materials, coffee breaks and conference dinner on 27 August.

Pre-conference field experiment fee includes transportation, dinner and accommodation in Rural Guest House on 26 August.

Ask for invoice: mobiletartu@ut.ee

Call for papers

15 April 25 April Extended abstracts 800 words (send to mobiletartu@ut.ee)
15 May Acceptance
15 August full paper

Program committee

Prof. Rein Ahas, University of Tartu (local organiser)
Prof. Michael Bosnjak, University of Bolzano
Prof. Georg Gartner, Vienna Technical University
Prof. Jonathan Raper, City University London
Prof. Carlo Ratti, MIT
Erki Saluveer, Positium LBS
Prof. Noam Shoval, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Frank Witlox, University of Ghent

Publication from SPM 2008

Material from the SPM 2008 seminar is now in print in the Journal of Urban Technology:

The second special issue is almost complete: Journal of Location Based Services.

Journal of Urban Technology, Volume 17 Issue 1 2010

Mobile Positioning and Tracking in Geography and Planning
SSN: 1466-1853 (electronic) 1063-0732 (paper)
Subjects: Urban Communications & Technology; Urban Geography; Urban Studies;
Publisher: Routledge

From the Guest Editor: Mobile Positioning and Tracking in Geography and Planning
Rein Ahas Pages 1 – 2

Using Mobile Positioning Data to Model Locations Meaningful to Users of Mobile Phones
Rein Ahas ; Siiri Silm ; Olle Järv ; Erki Saluveer ;Margus Tiru
Pages 3 – 27

Finite State Machines: Preserving Privacy When Data-Mining Cellular Phone Networks
Jonathan Reades
Pages 29 – 40

Does Urban Mobility Have a Daily Routine? Learning from the Aggregate Data of Mobile Networks
Andres Sevtsuk ;Carlo Ratti
Pages 41 – 60

Planning Fire and Rescue Services by Visualizing Mobile Phone Density
Jukka M. Krisp
Pages 61 – 69

The Positium Barometer: A Web-Based Tool for Monitoring the Mobility of Tourists
Margus Tiru ; Erki Saluveer ; Rein Ahas ;Anto Aasa
Pages 71 – 89

Venue information

The Mobile Tartu workshop will be hosted by the Geography Department of University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia.

You can reach Tartu by flying to the local Tartu Airport or to the Tallinn Airport from where you can take a frequent bus to Tartu. Ask more arrival information from the organisers by sending an e-mail to mobiletartu@ut.ee

Accomodation in Tartu:
Hotel Antonius
Hotel London
Hotel Park
Tartu Hostel

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