The Science of Connections

Urban Mobility and Health Network

June 02, 2025.

NetSci 2025 Maastricht, Netherlands

Sessions
6 (2 keynotes, 1 panel, 3 short talks)
Attendees
20+
Venue
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN): Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER Maastricht
Location
Maastricht, Netherlands

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About the conference
Infectious disease modelling increasingly depends on contact matrices and networks to capture the intricate dynamics of pathogen transmission. These tools provide critical insights into the “who-is-in-contact-with-whom” paradigm, enabling more precise simulations of close-contact infectious diseases. To achieve this, epidemiologists and public health researchers are keen to simulate mobility networks with high spatiotemporal granularity. In a parallel universe, travel demand modelers and urban planners focus on simulating urban mobility patterns with social networks, albeit with distinct objectives. Their efforts primarily aim at ex-ante evaluations of transport interventions to optimize infrastructure and operational decisions. Recent advancements in integrating large-scale transit smart card data and cellular trace data with survey datasets offer unprecedented opportunities to create high-fidelity digital twins of complex urban systems. These advancements hold significant potential for informing infectious disease modelling by providing epidemiologists with mobility networks that can represent nitty-gritties of urban systems. This workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary platform at the intersection of Urban Mobility, Health, and Network Science. By fostering collaboration between travel demand modelers, social network scientists, and epidemiologists, the workshop aims to start dialogue about leveraging digital twin developed by travel demand modellers in infectious disease models to support informed public health interventions in complex urban systems.
Keynote Speakers
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Kay Axhausen

Professor | ETH Zürich

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Oliver Ratmann

Reader in Statistics and Machine Learning for Public Good | Imperial College London

Organizers
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Prateek Bansal

Assistant Professor | National University of Singapore

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Swapnil Mishra

Assistant Professor | National University of Singapore

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Elizaveta Semenova

Lecturer | Imperial College London

Agenda

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9.00am - 9.05amWelcomeTongeren zaal
9.05am - 9.50amKeynote by Prof. Kay AxhausenTongeren zaal
9.50am - 10.10amTalk on XYZTongeren zaal
10.10am - 10.30amTalk on ABCTongeren zaal
10.30am - 11.00amPoster Session + Coffee BreakFoyer
11.00am - 11.45amKeynote by Dr. Oliver RatmannTongeren zaal
11.45am - 12.05pmTalk on XYZTongeren zaal
12.05pm - 12.30pmPanel DiscussionTongeren zaal
12.30pm - 1.30pmPoster Session + LunchFoyer

Sponsors Making This Possible

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