ABSTRACT

Movement analysis has become an integral part of many disciplines, yet with relatively little overlap. A foresight paper in this journal entitled “Towards an integrated science of movement: converging research on animal movement ecology and human mobility science” argued for a better integration of concepts across the divide of animal and human movement, which would lead to the Integrated Science of Movement, but did so from a top-down perspective based on a series of expert workshops. We argue that for a solid establishment of the Integrated Science of Movement, a bottom-up approach is necessary, one based on existing literature which identifies similarities and differences across disciplines. We therefore review, compare, and contrast movement analysis methodologies from GIScience, movement ecology, geography, transportation, public health, computer science, and physics. We structure our review along the dichotomy of individual versus population-based movement or, using terminology from wildlife ecology, between the Lagrangian and Eulerian perspectives. We further introduce a new unifying framework for movement research that is sufficiently general to cover any type of movement study in any discipline and that spans the Lagrangian/Eulerian divide, with the ambitious goal to bridge the gap between disciplines and lay a solid foundation for a new Integrated Science of Movement.

摘要

运动分析已成为许多学科的组成部分，但重叠相对较少。该期刊上一篇题为“迈向综合运动科学：动物运动生态学和人类运动科学的融合研究”的前瞻性论文主张更好地整合跨越动物和人类运动鸿沟的概念，这将导致综合科学运动，但从基于一系列专家研讨会的自上而下的角度进行。我们认为，为了稳固建立综合运动科学，需要一种自下而上的方法，一种基于现有文献的方法，该方法确定跨学科的异同。因此，我们审查、比较和对比来自 GIScience、运动生态学、地理、交通、公共卫生、计算机科学和物理学。我们根据个人与基于人口的运动的二分法来构建我们的评论，或者使用野生动物生态学的术语，在拉格朗日和欧拉观点之间进行。我们进一步为运动研究引入了一个新的统一框架，该框架足以涵盖任何学科中的任何类型的运动研究并跨越拉格朗日/欧拉分界线，其雄心勃勃的目标是弥合学科之间的差距并为新的综合运动科学。