IVT News 2016

Interesting perspectives for the Swiss traffic system.

The Swiss Federal Council sets preconditions for public transportation real-time applications.

Electronically controlled and dynamic price system.

New urban structures and unintended mobility side-effects.

Which traffic problems cannot be resolved by Big Data?

Rapid transport of people and goods is a growing demand as well as an economic necessity.

Bike to the Future, an exhibit by Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), was returning for its second run at the PARK(ing) Day.

Will our houses be connected to autonomous transport systems? Let's have a seat.

Research work currently ongoing at the IVT in Zurich is aiming to go a step further in providing algorithmic support for scheduling.

The 80^th LITRA general meeting awarded this year's winners of the LITRA price.

The partial removal of the Inner Loop might make Rochester, New York, the city that finally breaks a ruinous mid-century mold.

New summer school in Cuba "Learning from Havana".  

The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim available as open access publication.

On some Swiss motorways 80km/h speed limit is supposed to support the traffic flow. ETH expert Monica Menendez explains how.

M. Jakob, M. Menendez and J. Cao received the Topic Area C Award for their paper A dynamic macroscopic parking pricing model.

The IVT elaborated a second opinion for the planned BLS backshop, which has been published by the City of Berne on July 8th 2016.

Dr. Monica Menendez participated in EcoSuiza 2016, a program sponsored by the Swiss Embassy in Argentina to promote Swiss sustainable practices in Latin America.

Autonomous cars will imply an extensive transportation system remodelling and lead the debate in transport policy.

Cycling is one of the most space efficient and sustainable mode of transportation in cities.