The Mobile Tartu Conference focuses on human mobility studies for resilient, just, and sustainable societies using digital traces from mobile big data. At the 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. The conference will open discussions on the conceptual, methodological, and empirical dimensions of understanding human mobility and its interactions with society and the environment, using mobile big data and other digital traces. HeiGIT will contribute to these discussions with research on older adults walking behavior, combining mapped mobility data, surveys, and geospatial analysis to better understand age-friendly environments.
Talk: Leisure walking routes among older adults: Insights from a multi-city revealed-preference experiment
Presenter: Johannes Huber
As part of the PhD School at Mobile Tartu 2026 we present a multi-city revealed-preference study of older adults’ (65+) leisure walking loops in Mannheim, Uppsala, and Kayseri (580 participants; 727 mapped routes). This is part of the Silver Ways Project. By combining sketched routes, surveys, and GIS/imagery-based environmental data, we quantify route-wide exposures and continuity of supportive features (e.g., benches, lighting, sidewalk quality, greenness, noise) to inform age-friendly pedestrian planning.