Mobility of citizens from and to Valmiera city

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How can data about citizens’ mobility to and from Valmiera city be used and analysed?

Mobility has massively increased over the past 100 years. And with it the environmental burden. What kind of data and how to use them to develop services provided by the city?

Challenge description

Valmiera is the largest city of the historical Vidzeme region, Latvia, with a total area of 18.1 square kilometres.

As national significance development centre Valmiera plays a vital role as administrative, economic, industrial, trade and service centre. Therefore services and infrastructure provided by Valmiera are essential for town residents and for population from surrounding areas (~50 km) but there are no relevant data that shows mobility of citizens to and from Valmiera city what could help to development of the city and improve provided services.

Challenge vision

There are several ways how to analyse data about mobility of citizens but most of the times data do not give an overview about real situation, therefore it is needed to analyse data covering larger area (50-100km). This information will be beneficial to city planning, services as transport, health, commerce, education etc

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