American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, April 6-10, 2020, Denver
Aims and Scope:
“Human mobility” is a commonly used but loosely defined term which represents the concept about people’s spatiotemporal occupation and involves interaction among human, society, and surrounding physical environment. Human activities currently are generating massive amount of geospatial data. Recent technology advancements further pushed volume, variety, and velocity of big human mobility to an unprecedented level. Better understanding human mobility is essential to understand human interactions with surrounding environment and the usage of geographic space. It can benefit transportation and urban planning, political decision making, economic development, emergency management, and many other fields.
However, how to efficiently and effectively process and analyze massive human movement data remains challenging given current data generating speed, especially within dynamic spatial and temporal context. This session aims to capture the latest efforts in analyzing human movement data and revealing human movement patterns that contributes to better understanding about human activities and surrounding environment under difference circumstances and within different domains, such as transportation, social network, public health, urban analysis, and emergency management.
Potential topics include, but not limited to, the following:
- Human mobility data capturing, storing, processing and analyzing
- Methodological improvements in human movement data mining, pattern analysis, and visualization
- Identifying abnormality in human mobility patterns
- Quantifying human mobility pattern changes
- Modeling human mobility during different events, for instance, hurricane evacuation
- Interdisciplinary applications with spatiotemporal human mobility data
To present a paper in this session, you will register and submit your abstract online (www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting). Then email your presenter identification number (PIN) to one of the following organizers by October 28th, 2019.
Organizers:
Yuqin Jiang, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina. yuqin@email.sc.edu
Zhenlong Li, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina. zhenlong@sc.edu
Xinyue Ye, Department of Informatics, New Jersey Institute of Technology. xye@njit.edu
