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24th Swiss Transport Research Conference
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Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.
Even more space for e-bikes and bicycles?
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Zurich City Council, ETH Zurich, and the bike-friendly city in an interview on Radio SRF 1.
City of Zurich: ETH presents a vision of a 'cycling city' with one-way streets
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How could the traffic of the future look in the net-zero city of Zurich? Researchers at ETH Zurich are planning for the eventuality that current measures to reduce greenhouse gases are not sufficient.
How Zurich has to change its roads to have more e-bikes than cars
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What happens when cities gear their road space primarily to the needs of cyclists and e-bikers? ETH researchers at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) use examples from the city of Zurich to show how such an E-Bike City might look one day.
Aspects, challenges, and significance of mobility
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Kay Axhausen discusses the future of mobility in Zurich: About autonomous vehicles, electric cars, road pricing, traffic jams, speed limits, public transportation, bicycles and e-bikes, scooters, pedestrians, daily commutes, delivery services, climate goals, and CO2 emissions compared to other cities.
We have to loosen ourselves from the car, as we drive up against the wall
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- E-Bike City
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Is there a possibility without cars? Interview with transportation researcher Kay Axhausen.
Cars stuck in traffic jams, insufficient bike lanes, overcrowded trains - Needed change for Zurich?
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All different road users hardly find space next to each other in the city, says Professor Kay Axhausen in an interview.
Transport infrastructure for human powered mobility
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The Federal Council proposes clear regulations as well as efficient use of transport areas. The legislation for touristic electric bicycle use should be adapted, too.
The road of the future
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Mobility and sustainability on the Hönggerberg campus of ETH Zurich. A guided tour by Campus Services shows how the Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse is being redesigned.
It starts with a glance. How ETH researchers contribute to sustainable campus mobility
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They come to ETH Zurich almost daily by bike or e-bike. Three ETH transport researchers are investigating how an e-bike-friendly city works. They are also committed to a safe, sustainable, and CO2-reducing campus mobility at ETH Zurich.
How do the Swiss spend their time and money? A longitudinal smartphone diary study with GPS
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TimeUse+ is a novel survey methodology to collect data on individuals’ time use, trael, and expenditure behaviour to understand these shifts.
23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference
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Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference
E-Bike – Rebuilding Switzerland
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More and more electric bikes, more and more accidents. Do we just have to accept this equation? The Netherlands shows how things can be done differently. Now, bike routes in Switzerland are to become safer as well.
E-bike as future means of transport: Opportunites and risks
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How do you get around town by car, public transport or e-bike? Who is switching to the bicycle highway? And what if 50 percent of traffic area in Zurich would belong to e-bikes and other slow modes one day? Listen to Professor Kay Axhausen and Clarissa Livingston's explanations in the report of SRF Einstein.
DiffUrb News
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Cities are characterised by pluralism. This fact is becoming increasingly relevant in the practice of urban governance and planning.
Difference in urban planning
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Interdisciplinarity as an approach to understanding the complexity of contemporary urban societies.
Dezentralschweiz II
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Increased multilocal work spaces and less commuting. What is the effect of the decentralization experience caused by the pandemic on a pan-European scale?
Bridging human and artificial intelligence to support synthesis in city planning
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FCL Global Seminar with Dr Pieter Herthogs on planning and managing the growth of cities today and in the future.
Influence of the environment on our health
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We are influenced by our living environment mentally and physically. Hence, how should cities and villages look like?
Decentral Switzerland
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What lessons do we draw from the Covid crisis as a field test for a more sustainable urban landscape in Switzerland?
Mobility hubs—upgrades for pedestrian and cycling traffic, expansion for PT
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Traffic situation improvement and coordination of transportation and spatial development.
22nd Swiss Transport Research Conference
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STRC 2022 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference
Urban transformations
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NSL Colloquium 2022|1 on politics, planning, space, technology, design and spatial planning.
IVT Alumni 2022
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Presentations of current transport research topics at the IVT Alumni Seminar 2022.
Improved urban planning thanks to superblocks
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To meet the challenges in cities related to climate change and increasing urbanization, new approaches to transforming urban space are needed.
Why a ‘smart city’ is more than 5G and AI
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Calum Handforth in the FCL Global Seminar on redefining a truly 'smart' city as one based on the innovation, collaboration and aspirations of its population.
Full of drive for transport
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Lukas Ambühl is one step ahead with a digital city twin. Is this a game changer for transport planning?
A real urbanity dream
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It was a perfect sunny day, warm, beautiful open spaces with people everywhere - a real urbanity dream. Lukas Ballo in an interview.
Co-opolis: The collective production of the city
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NSL Colloquium about the city as a common matter. Exploration of common codes, resources and creative co-living.
Urban design and the technological shift in transportation
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In recent years technological innovations in transportation, such as automated vehicles (AVs), mobility-as-a-service, electric and connected vehicles, have been garnering attention.
21st Swiss Transport Research Conference
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STRC 2021 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.
Info event CAS Transport Engineering
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Deepen your knowledge and improve your skills in transport planning and transport operations. Info-event with Professor Kay W. Axhausen.
Zephyr Foundation Award for impactful research
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MATSim has been selected to receive this year’s Zephyr Foundation award for impactful research by contributing to travel analysis improvements for the public good.
CAS in Transport Engineering
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- CAS/DAS Transport Engineering
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Deepen your knowledge and improve your skills in transport planning and transport operations.
Clean up the traffic
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Sophisticated tube systems instead of roads. That's how the future city will look like.
planning—environment—cities
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Professor Phil Allmendinger is going to present the 3rd edition of his Planning Theory monograph in a virtual talk.
Counteracting shifting baselines
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- ISTP Colloquium
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ISTP-Colloquium with Anne Graupner from 26’10 south Architects in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sanctuary Cities in Europe? Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants in Europe
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ISTP-Colloquium with Professor David Kaufmann who is Deputy Director of the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at ETH Zurich.
Are our cities green enough in times of a pandemic?
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Green city areas are under pressure. Compact cities aim to reduce land consumption outside cities, but densification puts pressure on urban green areas.
Transport hubs for more convenient transfers
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Special urban design and versatile utilisation possibilities.
Planetary Urbanisation: Decentering Perspectives on the Urban
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ISTP-Colloquium with Professor Christian Schmid from the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
Lucerne's Spange Nord: Overestimation of traffic growth?
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Experts' opinion by Alexander Erath (FHNW) and Kay Axhausen (IVT ETH Zurich).
Borderland urbanism: Infrastructure for fragmented cities
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ISTP Colloquium with Dr Deljana Iossifova, School of Environment, Education and Development of the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester.
How the road network determines traffic capacity
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ETH researchers have shown that we can use the structure of urban road networks to predict their traffic capacity.
Are integrated infrastructure networks governable in contemporary city regions?
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NSL Colloquium with Professor M. Neuman from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster.
A beautiful model to play with
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Underground railway and cycling path on the former railway tracks – a vision for the Zurich lake region.
Future Cities: Actions
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Future Cities: Actions is an annual conference organised by the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), a programme under the Singapore-ETH Centre.
As a society, we have to ask ourselves how to distribute current capacities to the users
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Kay Axhausen about collaboration with other disciplines, and about funding road infrastructure for autonomous cars in Switzerland.
Parking and land access
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IVT-Seminar with Professor S. Le Vine from the Imperial College London about parking and land access in the context of autonomous driving and ridehailing.
Measuring accessibility in infrastructure-poor regions
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IVT-Seminar with Professor A. Paez from the McMaster University in Hamilton.
Historical accessibility and its effect in space
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- Doktorat D-BAUG
Public dissertation presentation by R. Fuhrer.
Mega trends and spatial development in Switzerland
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Mega trends open up new opportunities and are not without risk. They involve clever politics and foresight.
Dealing with the 5 Ps of access
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Book review of Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners.
Metropolitan transportation programme
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Efficient use of all transport modes, inward urban development, alignment of transportation and residential areas.
Housing and urban green
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IVT-Seminar with Professor T. Arentze from TU Eindhoven about urban development strategies.
Economic and demographic effects of emergency risk communication: Evidence from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
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Colloquium with Professor H. Matsuura, Vice President of the Shoin University in Atsugi, Japan.
Students' Presentations
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Masters' presentations from the Spring semester 2018.
Entirely misplanned
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New flats are built where they are not needed, and vice versa. This generates traffic.
ETH Hoenggerberg Campus 2040
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Redensification and land development on the Hoenggerberg Campus.
Case study Switzerland: Accessibility effects of autonomous vehicles
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Myra Rotermund receives the CUREM research award for her master's thesis.
Students' Presentations
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Bachelors' and seminar papers from the Spring semester 2018.
IVT Alumni 2018
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Alumni seminar 2018: Current transport research topics.
Demand-Based Parking Prices
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In San Francisco citywide.
Mobility of yesterday, today and tomorrow
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Professor Dr Kay W. Axhausen about today's transport systems challenges at the central conference in Lucerne.
Spatial Development and Transport Systems
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Autonomous vehicles - Prospects and risks for spatial development
Future Cities / Transactions
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2nd FCL Annual Conference: Exchanging knowledge between Asia and Switzerland.
Swiss Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
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Federal biodiversity policy, agriculture, spatial planning, transport and economic development.
IVT Students' Presentations
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- Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme MSc
- Bauingenieurwissenschaften MSc
Masters' theses Spring semester 2017.
Diversity, Accessibility and its Impact on Vehicle Ownership and Residential Location Choices
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IVT-Seminar: Public dissertation presentation.
IVT Students' Presentations
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- Bauingenieurwissenschaften BSc
Bachelors' and seminar projects Spring semester 2017.
Swiss Transport Research Conference
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Swiss transport and land-use researchers' conference.
Collaborative Behavior in a Multi-agent Micro-simulation
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- Doktorierende
- Doktorat D-BAUG
IVT-Seminar: Public dissertation presentation.
Transport Problems in Zurich
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Optimal and branched transport – State of the art and open problems.
Parkageddon
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How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl.
What do Historical Traffic Maps Unveil?
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Implications of traffic routes on region, society and economy.
Smart Cities 2.0
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Data and technology in order to tackle the persistent problems of city living.
The Vertical City in Singapore
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What will life be like living high in the sky?
Smarter ways forward
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Making our cities move more efficiently matters and this is why Uber wants to provide access to anonymized data from over 2 billion trips.
Switzerland's Planning
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The exhibition shows the long-lasting path of land-use in Switzerland.
Full Impact of Car-lite Drive in 10 to 15 Years
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The push is on, with new laws in place, plus the authorities installing paths, ramps and connectors for two-wheelers.
Burying a 1950s Planning Disaster
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The partial removal of the Inner Loop might make Rochester, New York, the city that finally breaks a ruinous mid-century mold.