Mobility

Mobility may refer to:

Social sciences and humanities

• Economic mobility, ability of individuals or families to improve their economic status
• Population mobility, migration within a population
• 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
• 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

See also

• 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