Welcome to the MARA project
MARA – Mobility and Accessibility in Rural Areas – is a European project funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme. It is being put into practice between January 2019 and June 2021.
It aims to improve the accessibility and mobility in touristic remote areas of the Baltic Sea Region by increasing the capacity of transport actors. MARA aims to crosscheck the actual mobility demand of residents and tourists with current mobility offers.
MARA is developing several mobility mapping tools and alternative mobility pilot cases in its partner regions. Have a look here to find out more about the cases.
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Latest news
It's time to get moving! Ideas for new mobility solutions in rural areas (MARA)
Vidzeme Planning Region offers ideas for new mobility solutions in rural areas
12th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktor Skrickij will be presenting at the 12th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
MARA Round Table: Preparing for Autonomous Mobility in Rural Areas
Join us on 8th September from 9-11am CET for the webinar/round table on our mobility in rural areas: How can new autonomous technologies improve the mobility for all in rural areas and what are the steps needed for their implementation?
MARA Webinar 8th June 2021
On 8 June 2021, MARA partners organized a webinar with the aim to share experiences among projects and project partners and discuss drivers and barriers to flexible forms of transport services in remote areas.
MARA-Miranda Workshop on 15 June @ 13:00-15.30 CET
The project MARA is coming to an end has established an intensive cooperation with the Miranda project.
New article: Spatial interpolation of mobile positioning data for population statistics
One of the MARA project partners, the University of Tartu, has just published an article on spatial interpolation of mobile positioning data for population statistics.
4th MARA Partner Meeting took place online as a virtual event
Despite the planned visit to Vidzeme in Latvia, MARA Partners had to meet online due to current epidemilogical situation and related restrcitions. The video conference meeting took place on 8-9 September 2020.
Get an insight into the approaches to mobility analysis, watch the video-presentations by MARA partners from Mobile Tartu conference 2020.
The conference Mobile Tartu 2020 focused on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the use of various mobility data and the application of these data in statistics, in smart city and transportation development, and human mobility research.
Check out the latest scientific publication by the MARA partner University of Tartu
We are glad to share with you a recent publication in relation to MARA project.
MARA partners as co-organisers and contributors to Mobile Tartu 2020 International Virtual Conference
The 7th mobility research conference Mobile Tartu was held on 30 June, bringing together leading human mobility researchers from around the world. More than 240 participants from 48 countries contributed to the event.
MARA featured in VASAB newsletter
MARA project was featured in the June edition of VASAB1 newsletter with a special emphasis on the project's role in VASAB Long-Term Perspective for Territorial Development of the BSR within the EUSBSR.
3rd MARA Partner Meeting took place in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
3rd MARA Partner Meeting took place in the beautiful & snowy Republic of Karelia, Russia, between the 5-7 February 2020. This meeting in the city of Petrozavodsk was the 3rd opportunity for the partners to meet each other in order to gain a common understanding of the project and its various activities.