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Urban resilience during the global pandemic
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ETH Risk Center's public Resilience Webinar with Dr Siqi Songi from the Singapore-ETH Center.
Even more space for e-bikes and bicycles?
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- E-Bike City
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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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- E-Bike City
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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.
Global Smart Cities Summit & 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics
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- Computer and information technology
The Global Smart Cities Summit & the 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (GSCS & ICUI 2023) will be held in Hong Kong on 20-23 August 2023.
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.
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.
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.
It is clear by now that electric drive by itself will not safe us
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Professor Kay Axhausen explains how electric vehicles might change our transport behaviour. Or how they might enable breakthroughs for new mobility concepts, too.
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.
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?
Walking to net zero
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The Canton of Zurich recently adopted the net-zero 2040 climate protection target. Here Sibylle Wälty appeals for more 10-minute neighbourhoods, which, by making better use of the settlement area, will reduce emissions.
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.
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.
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.
Urban climate modelling for high density city resilience
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- Urban design
- Environmental sciences
- Climate sciences
Online ETH Risk Center Lunch Webinar with Prof. Chao Yuan from the Singapore ETH-Centre.
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.
Modeling the recovery process: A key dimension of resilience
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- ETH Risk Center
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Online ETH Risk Center Lunch Webinar with Dr. Beatrice Cassottana from the Singapore ETH-Centre.
Clean up the traffic
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Sophisticated tube systems instead of roads. That's how the future city will look like.
Urban design and the technological shift in transportation
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How can urban design steer the impacts of technological disruptions in the transport sector?
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.
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.
VR in research on cycling infrastructure
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This webinar by Mohsen Nazemi introduces virtual reality (VR) as a method in research on cycling and discusses the application of PTV Vissim in creating 360-degree environments.
How the campus of the future will develop
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ETH develops its campus of the future on the Hoenggerberg in 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.
This is how road networks determine 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.
Street Art and Urban Planning: The case of informal settlements in Bogotá
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ISTP Colloquium with Andrés Sepúlveda from the El Bosque University in Bogotá, Colombia.
Understanding traffic capacity of urban networks
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Billions of vehicle observations from more than 40 cities show how road and bus network topology explains around 90% of the empirically observed critical point variation.
Big events as catalysts
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Prof. em. P. Bovy from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne about big events as catalysts for more sustainable metropolitan mobilities.
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.
Architecture meets urban policy making
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ISTP Colloquium with Professor R. Bermúdez from the Universidad Nacional about the case of existing Gated Communities in Bogotá.
Housing and urban green
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IVT-Seminar with Professor T. Arentze from TU Eindhoven about urban development strategies.
Entirely misplanned
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New flats are built where they are not needed, and vice versa. This generates traffic.
Students' Presentations
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Bachelors' and seminar papers from the Spring semester 2018.
Elements of Access
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Traffic, human behaviour, activity location and accessibility aimed to be communicated to the public.
Future Cities / Transactions
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2nd FCL Annual Conference: Exchanging knowledge between Asia and Switzerland.
Cityways
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The MIT Senseable City Lab unveils recreational movement in urban areas.
Researching the Cities of the Future
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The tropical city of Singapore should become cooler, more liveable and more environmentally friendly.
Bike to the future in Leeds and Delft
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Engaging Mobility Blog: Two occasions in May 2017 to present our ongoing work on cycling and virtual reality.
Diversity, Accessibility and its Impact on Vehicle Ownership and Residential Location Choices
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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.
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?
Using virtual reality to envision a car-lite future
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Bike to the Future, an exhibit by Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), was returning for its second run at the PARK(ing) Day.
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.
Learning from Havana
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New summer school in Cuba "Learning from Havana".