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Workshop

Mobile Tartu 2018

International Conference on 27-29th of June 2018 in Tartu, Estonia

http://mobiletartu.ut.ee

The aim of the event is to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of research using mobility data – derived from mobile phone or crowd-sourced social media – and explore practical applications of this data in scientific research, planning, governance and location based services.

In addition, Mobile Tartu 2018 proposes special events:

1) PhD course “Mobile phone based data collection field experiment” on 27th of June

2) “Mobile phones, travel and transportation” organised by NECTAR (http://www.nectar-eu.eu/).

3) “Sensor Data for Smart City” organized by SmartEnCity project of EU H2020 (http://smartencity.eu/)

4) BIG mobile data in official statistics

 

Key dates

1 December 2017 Registration and abstract submission opens
31 January 2018 Deadline of abstract (max 200 words) submission
15 February 2018 Notification of abstract acceptance
31 March 2018 Early Bird registration deadline
13 June 2018 Late registration deadline
20 June 2018 Deadline for submitting a full paper

 

12th January 2018 Call, Cluster 8, Special session, Workshop Read more >

Cluster 6 Workshop: Accessibility in urban modelling: from measurement to policy instruction

It is our pleasure to invite you to the accessibility workshop of NECTAR Cluster 6 which will be held in Lyon, France, the 18 and 19th of June 2018. This workshop welcomes all works dealing with accessibility. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, to Ouassim Manout  and Ioannis Baraklianos, before February 15th. The call for abstracts can be found here. Note that the workshop will be followed by a meeting of the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) (June 20th).

18th December 2017 Cluster 6, Uncategorised, Workshop Read more >

Cluster 7 Workshop: Social and Health Issues in Transportation

It is our pleasure to invite you to a workshop of NECTAR Cluster 7 (Social and Health Issues) which will be held at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 6-8, 2018. If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords in PDF format to d.f.ettema@uu.nl before January 31, 2018. The call can be found here.

18th December 2017 Cluster 2, Cluster 7, Workshop Read more >

Cluster 5 Workshop: Smart Transport for Sustainable Tourism

It is our pleasure to invite you to join the workshop of NECTAR Cluster 5 (Leisure, Recreation and Tourism) which will be held at the University of Salento, Italy, on May 24-25, 2018. If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, and your CV (2-4 pages) in PDF format to luca.zamparini@unisalento it before January 31, 2018. More information can be found here.

5th December 2017 Cluster 5, Workshop Read more >

Workshop: Smart Cities – Governing Accessibility, Air Pollution and Equity

The call for papers for a special joint Cluster 2/6 workshop Smart Cities – Governing Accessibility, Air Pollution and Equity at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, August 24-25, 2017 can be found here.

This workshop aims to discuss the complex relationships between transport, urbanization, inequalities in accessibility and air pollution, and the governance and policy implications of the development of smart and equitable cities and transport policies. The workshop focuses on major cities and metropolitan areas in Europe, North America and Brasil.

 Please note that is a small sized workshop (20 persons) for which University of São Paulo will apply for co-funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation FAPESP. For this application, the full workshop programme, including abstracts and CVs of presenters, is needed. We will be able to fund airline tickets, meals and accommodation for three nights, for one author per paper, if FAPESP provides funding. In the unlikely case that FAPESP funding is unavailable, conference dinner and accommodation for two nights will be offered to 20 participants, for only one author per paper. In addition to invited speakers a limited number of abstracts will be accepted.

 If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, and your CV (2-4 pages) in PDF format to k.t.geurs@utwente.nl and j.p.pritchard@utwente.nl before January 31, 2017.

 

18th January 2017 Cluster 2, Cluster 6, Uncategorised, Workshop Read more >