Outreach

The kick-off meeting of the European project EUNOIA will take place next October 10 and 11 at the IFISC in the campus UIB of Palma. EUNOIA is coordinated by IFISC and participate as well scientific teams from the Center of Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) of the UCL, from the CEA-Saclay in Paris and from the ETH in Zurich. Other participants in the project include municipal authorities such as Ajuntament de Barcelona and technological companies as Nommon (Madrid), and the R+D sections of BBVA (Madrid) and Telefónica I+D (Barcelona).

EUNOIA has as main goal the analysis and modelization of urban mobility from the Complex Systems perspective. The project falls within a new initiative of the Commission promoting the study of Global System Science. The work to develop in the project will provide insights on several aspect of urban mobility patterns like the localization of centers of activity in the cities, the characterization of the nature of the activity in such centers (different productive business, restaurants, pubs, sport centers, etc), the evolution in time of people concentration and the interdependence of these centers with the networks of mobility. This study will allow for the introduction of new methods and tools to model mobility in urban areas. These new models will be expressed in software able to analyze the evolution of mobility patterns and to forecast the effects that changes in the physical networks or in the regulations may have in the system before their real implementation. The project will focus on three major European cities (Barcelona, London and Zurich) for the development of the first prototypes.

• Prof. Michael Batty Colloquium

• UIB Press Release, October 9, 2012
• Diario de Mallorca, October 11, 2012
• El Mundo, October 16, 2012
• UIB Press Release, November, 27, 2013
• Diario de Mallorca, December 12, 2013
• Diario de Mallorca, June 9, 2014

• IB3 Ràdio, June 10, 2014

• Workshop on Urban Development and Global Systems Science