Prof. Tuuli Toivonen. Analysing accessibility & mobility for planning sustainable & equitable cities
Channel: Mobility Lab
Date: 2022-03-31

The public online lecture series "Mobility analysis and planning for human-scale cities" arranged by the Mobility Lab, University of Tartu, features experts and leading scholars in the field of mobility and transport. The lecture series seeks to answer the question of how to promote human-scale, sustainable, and just cities through mobility analysis and transport planning. The lectures address transport policy, the social, environmental and health aspects of mobility and transport, traditional and novel methods in mobility analysis and transport planning, and innovative technologies and future solutions and their social impact.

In this lecture, Professor Tuuli Toivonen from the University of Helsinki talks about accessibility and mobility analysis in planning sustainable and equitable cities.

Tuuli Toivonen is a Professor of Geoinformatics and the leader of the Digital Geography Lab at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on understanding the dynamics of people and places, in both urban and natural areas, mostly using open/big data, spatial analytics, and machine learning approaches. Much of her work examines the mobility and accessibility of people from different perspectives and in different environments, using user-generated data (social media, mobile phone, sports apps, etc.) combined with traditional data sources.