Integrated science of movement

Abstract

Recent technological advances in movement data acquisition have enabled researchers in many disciplines to study movement at increasingly detailed spatial and temporal scales. Yet there is little overlap in the sharing of methods and models between disciplines, despite similar research objectives and data models. Attempts to bridge this gap are leading towards the establishment of an overarching interdisciplinary science, termed the Integrated Science of Movement. Here we present opportunities and challenges of this process and outline the crucial role that GIScience as a discipline with a focus on space, place, and time can play in the integrated science of movement.

Measuring urban regional similarity through mobility signatures

“…Similarity measures have a rich history in trajectory analysis and transportation studies. In recent years we have also seen a push towards better integrating movement science within the broader domains of urban studies and geographic information science (Demšar et al, 2020;Miller et al, 2019a). Human mobility research is a significant component of both domains (Siła-Nowicka et al, 2016;Kraemer et al, 2020) and the deluge of rich mobility data is serving to further integrate the two.…”

Transferring decision boundaries onto a geographic space: Agent rules extracted from movement data using classification trees

“…Calls for an “integrated science of movement”, as well as an “integrated biologging framework”, have made clear the continued contribution of geographers to animal movement ecology research. These include data‐oriented methods for movement ecology with explicit considerations for geospatial processes, and a broader overlap and methods exchange amongst applied movement domains of human mobility and animal movement ecology (Demšar, Long, & Siła‐Nowicka, 2020; Miller, Dodge, Miller, & Bohrer, 2019; Williams et al., 2020).…”

JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature: part two

“…Two vision papers discuss movement. Demsar et al [4] describe opportunities and challenges for an integrated science of movement, using Geographic Information Science as an bridging field for work on human and animal mobility. Bringing together different research domains can also provide us with a chance to learn from one another, and extract research from individual silos not only in terms of methods, but also with respect to the sorts of questions, interpretation and challenges that arise when we work with movement data.…”