Mobility

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Mobility may refer to:

Social sciences and humanities

  • Economic mobility, ability of individuals or families to improve their economic status
  • Geographic mobility, the measure of how populations and goods move over time
  • Mobilities, a contemporary paradigm in the social sciences and humanities that explores the movement of people, ideas and things
    • Individual mobility
    • Hypermobility (travel), the social aspects and environmental impacts of excessive travel
    • Private transport, e.g., car-based
    • Transport
      • Sustainable transport, refers to the broad subject of transport that is or approaches being sustainable
      • Active mobility (also known as soft mobility), based on non-motorized transportation methods
  • Social mobility, movement of people between one social classes or economic levels

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Mobility (chess), the ability of a chess piece to move around the board and chess game
  • "Mobility" (song), a 1990 song by Moby
  • Mobility (video game), a 2001 computer game

Computing and telecommunications

  • Mobile computing, human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage
  • Mobility model, model of the motion of users of mobile phones and wireless ad hoc networks
  • Personal mobility, the ability of telecommunication user to access services on the basis of a personal identifier

Education

  • Academic mobility, students and teachers in higher education studying or teaching elsewhere for a limited time
  • Apprentices mobility, students and teachers in vocational education, or training studying or teaching elsewhere for a limited time

Physics

  • Electrical mobility, ability of charged particles to move through a medium
  • Electron mobility, how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor
  • Electrophoretic mobility, the velocity of a dispersed charged particle in electrophoresis

Other uses

  • Mobility (military), the ability of military units or weapon systems to move to an objective
  • Mobility Carsharing, car sharing cooperative of Switzerland
  • Functional mobility, one of the basic activities of daily living (ADL) in the fields of health care and rehabilitation
  • E-mobility known as electric vehicle (EV)

See also

  • Flexibility (anatomy), a.k.a. limberness, the range of movement in a joint or series of joints
  • Logistics, the management of the flow of resources between points to meet some requirements
  • Mobile (disambiguation)
  • Mobility aid, a device designed to assist walking
  • Mobilization, the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war
  • Motility, a biological term which refers to the ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
  • Motion (physics), a change in position of an object with respect to time and its reference point
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