Mobility may refer to:

Social sciences and humanities

* Economic mobility, ability of individuals or families to improve their economic status *

Geographic mobility Geographic mobility is the measure of how populations and goods move over time. Geographic mobility, population mobility, or more simply mobility is also a statistic that measures migration within a population. Commonly used in demography and huma ...

, 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 Sustainable transport refers to ways of transportation that are sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used for road, water or air transport; th ...

, 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 Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society ...

, movement of people between one social classes or economic levels

Arts, entertainment, and media

Mobility (chess) This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like ''fork'' and ''pin''. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific t ...

, 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 Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...

, human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage *

Mobility model Mobility models characterize the movements of mobile users with respect to their location, velocity and direction over a period of time. These models play an vital role in the design of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET). Most of the times simulators ...

, 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 Apprentices mobility is the movement of students and teachers in vocational education or training (VET) to another institution inside or outside their own country to study or teach for a limited time. The term is usually used in the context of Eu ...

, students and teachers in vocational education, or training studying or teaching elsewhere for a limited time

Physics

Electrical mobility Electrical mobility is the ability of charged particles (such as electrons or protons) to move through a medium in response to an electric field that is pulling them. The separation of ions according to their mobility in gas phase is called ion ...

, ability of charged particles to move through a medium *

Electron mobility In solid-state physics, the electron mobility characterises how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor when pulled by an electric field. There is an analogous quantity for holes, called hole mobility. The term carrier mobili ...

, how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor *

Electrophoretic mobility Electrophoresis, from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, "amber") and φόρησις (phórēsis, "the act of bearing"), is the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of a spatially uniform electric fie ...

, 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 Mobility Carsharing (officially Mobility Cooperative, also known as Mobility Car Sharing or simply Mobility for short) is a Swiss cooperative of car sharing. It covers almost all organised carsharing in Switzerland."Today, the co-operative cover ...

, 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 An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion. It can be powered by a collector system, with electricity from extravehicular sources, or it can be powered autonomously by a battery (sometimes cha ...