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.
Highlights
Movement is a basic property of human and animal behavior and is studied across many disciplines
Studies of human mobility are found across many disciplines: Geographic Information Science (GIScience), quantitative geography, transportation science, computer science, physics, and public health have all contributed to study of human mobility
We argue that GIScientists are in a unique position to support the development of the integrated science of movement through our linkages across disciplines
Summary
Movement is a basic property of human and animal behavior and is studied across many disciplines. DEMS AR, LONG, SIŁA-NOWICKA many problems (and solutions!) overlap This has led to calls to bridge this gap, both in terms of establishing a theoretical data science framework for movement [10] and in terms of converging theories and concepts from the animal and human domains into a new discipline—termed the integrated science of movement [21]. This will require efforts to move out of our respective disciplinary silos and build connections, a process that is already starting through interdisciplinary collaborations. We argue that GIScientists are in a unique position to support the development of the integrated science of movement through our linkages across disciplines
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