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Daily mobility of the elderly: An example from Łódź, Poland

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2020
Recently, numerous countries have been facing the issue of population ageing, which poses a formidable challenge for many sectors, including transportation. Alas, there are no detailed or insightful studies that involve the analysis of the elderly, which
Marta Borowska-Stefańska   +2 more
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Impact of Land Use Diversity on Daytime Social Segregation Patterns in Santiago de Chile

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Latin American cities are known for their high levels of marginality, segregation and inequality. As such, these issues have been the subject of substantial discussions in academia, with the predominant approach being the study of residential segregation,
Luis Fuentes   +2 more
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What can analysis of Space-Time of Action tell us about medium-term changes in adults’ and children’s access to place of activity? The example of Bogotá

open access: yesArticulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2023
This article draws on the space-time prism as formalized in time-geography (Hägerstrand 1970) and on spatial analysis methods to examine medium-term changes to household members’ access to place of activity, against the backdrop of urban change.
Florent Demoraes   +2 more
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On the road: travelling salesmen and experiences of mobility in Britain before 1939 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Mobility has been a significant influence in the formation of identities for individuals and for certain occupations. Recent studies emphasises the associations of mobility with a sense of autonomy and personal freedom.
French, M.
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L’évolution des pratiques de mobilité des adolescents depuis 20 ans en Île-de-France : quelle influence des variables sociales et territoriales sur les inégalités de genre ?

open access: yesMétropoles, 2016
Research on daily mobility during adolescence typically focuses on the contemporary situation in the French context. With this in mind, this article seeks to address a blind spot in this field by proposing a historical analysis of teenagers’ mobility ...
Julian Devaux   +2 more
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COVID-19 impact on daily mobility in Slovenia

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2021
The Slovenian subsample (n=415) of an international online survey about changes in daily mobility during the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020 was analysed from a  geographical perspective.
Tadej Brezina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

La mobilité comme accessibilité, dispositions et épreuve : trois paradigmes expliquant le caractère éprouvant des déplacements à Paris

open access: yesArticulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2010
This paper aims at further documenting how difficult daily mobility can be for teenagers living in the Sensitive Urban Areas (SUA) around Paris. We focused mainly on a statistical study, an ethnographic survey and ninety semi-directed interviews in order
Nicolas Oppenchaim
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Breaking the habit: measuring and predicting departures from routine in individual human mobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Researchers studying daily life mobility patterns have recently shown that humans are typically highly predictable in their movements. However, no existing work has examined the boundaries of this predictability, where human behaviour transitions ...
Jennings, N. R.   +3 more
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Les périurbains franciliens : vers de nouveaux comportements de mobilité ?

open access: yesEchoGéo, 2015
Residents of periurban areas are often considered to be forced to travel long distances. The observation of recent trends in mobility in the outer suburbs and periurban fringe of Paris (based on censuses and transport surveys) highlights a stabilization ...
Martine Berger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geographically Explicit Network Analysis of Urban Living and Working Interaction Pattern in Shenzhen City, South China

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2021
Human daily mobility plays an important role in urban research. Commuting of urban residents is an important part of urban daily mobility, especially in working days.
Zhilu Yuan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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