10th Mobile Tartu Conference

upcoming
Author

Robin Lovelace

Published

June 7, 2026

Abstract
I’m heading to the 10th Mobile Tartu Conference (June 7–10, 2026) to co-lead a workshop on transport data science with Juan Fonseca-Zamora. Join our session on origin-destination and route network analysis using the spanishoddata R package and OpenStreetMap.

I’m heading to Tartu for the 10th Mobile Tartu Conference (June 7–10), where I’m co-leading a hands-on workshop at the PhD School.

Workshop: Data Science for Transport Planning

I’m co-leading this workshop with Juan P. Fonseca-Zamora (PhD Candidate, University of Leeds). We’ll work through the full pipeline — from origin-destination data to route network datasets — using open data and open tools.

Schedule:

  • Day 1 — Sunday, June 7, 14:00–18:00: Finding and importing data with {spanishoddata}, origin-destination analysis, group work
  • Day 2 — Monday, June 8, 09:00–12:30: Routing and route networks, advanced topics, followed by lunch and workshop wrap-up

What you’ll learn:

  • Access and work with large-scale open OD data using the spanishoddata R package
  • Analyse spatio-temporal flow patterns
  • Build route networks from OD data using OpenStreetMap
  • Reproducible workflows with Quarto and GitHub Codespaces

All materials are open-source and available online:

The quickest way to get started is via GitHub Codespaces — just click the badge on the workshop homepage.

About the Conference

The Mobile Tartu Conference focuses on human mobility studies for resilient, just, and sustainable societies, using primarily digital traces from mobile big data. At this Jubilee Conference, we reflect on the evolution of mobility studies over the past two decades and how this has influenced the need to consider mobility data justice in research and governance. Keynotes include Prof. Kay W. Axhausen (ETH Zurich) and Prof. Mimi Sheller (Worcester Polytechnic Institute).

Alongside my workshop, the PhD School programme also includes sessions led by Andres Sevtsuk (MIT), Francisco Rowe (University of Liverpool), and Anto Aasa (University of Tartu).

Hope to see you in Tartu!