Mobility may refer to:

Social sciences and humanities

Economic mobility Economic mobility is the ability of an individual, family or some other group to improve (or lower) their economic status—usually measured in income. Economic mobility is often measured by movement between income quintiles. Economic mobilit ...

, 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) Hypermobile travelers are "highly mobile individuals" who take "frequent trips, often over great distances." They "account for a large share of the overall kilometres travelled, especially by air." These people contribute significantly to the overa ...

, the social aspects and environmental impacts of excessive travel ** Private transport, e.g., car-based **

Transport Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional Motion, movement of humans, animals, and cargo, goods from one location to another. Mode of transport, Modes of transport include aviation, air, land tr ...

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Sustainable transport Sustainable transport is transportation sustainability, sustainable in terms of their social and Environmental issue, environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used; the source of energy; and ...

, refers to the broad subject of transport that is or approaches being sustainable ***

Active mobility Active mobility, soft mobility, active travel, active transport or active transportation is the transport of people or goods, through non-motorized means, based around human physical activity. The best-known forms of active mobility are walking ...

(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 socie ...

, 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 Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage and allow for transmission of data, which can include voice and video transmissions. Mobile computing involves mobile commun ...

, 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 a vital role in the design of Mobile ad hoc network, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET). Most of ...

, 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 Academic mobility refers to students and researchers in higher education moving to another institution inside or outside of their own country to study or teach for a limited time. The Bologna process regulates academic mobility within European ...

, 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 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 characterizes how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor when pushed or pulled by an electric field. There is an analogous quantity for Electron hole, holes, called hole mobilit ...

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

Electrophoretic mobility Electrophoresis is the motion of charged dispersed particles or dissolved charged molecules relative to a fluid under the influence of a spatially uniform electric field. As a rule, these are zwitterions with a positive or negative net ch ...

, the velocity of a dispersed charged particle in electrophoresis

Other uses

Mobility (military) Mobility in military terms refers to the ability of a weapon system, combat unit or armed force to move toward a military objective. Combat forces with a higher mobility are able to move more quickly, and/or across more hostile terrain, than for ...

, 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 carsharing. 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 motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road vehicle, road and rail vehicles, electric boats and Submersible, submer ...