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E-Bike City Zurich: A vision for sustainable transport
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How would an E-Bike City change our everyday lives and the cityscape? And to what extend could the emissions be reduced? Input and discussion with Mr Gondini Ragatz from the Klima-Grosseltern association and project coordinator Ms Catherine Elliot.
Human powered mobility made in Switzerland
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Plans for a national walking strategy are currently being discussed in Germany. The Swiss have been pursuing such a strategy already for over 20 years. What is the success rate?
How cycling advocates want to get off the defensive
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Supporters of the mobility transition do not want to be the car-haters anymore and deprive driving pleasures and parking spaces. Cycling pays off for commuters and businesses, they argue.
Street fight
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The bicycle was once the number one means of transportation until it was pushed to the brink of insignificance by the car. Now the bicycle is back and has more political weight than it has been for a long time.
Envisioning a cycling-centric future: Urban traffic modeling and management for a bi-modal network
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Allocating dedicated road space to slow modes is considered an effective way toward a radical modal shift. By exploiting traffic flow theoretical knowledge, convenient models can be developed to help evaluate the influence of such a large-scale transformation on network traffic performance. Novel strategies for bi-modal urban traffic management can also be proposed to solve congestion.
Bicycle quarrel: Who owns the road?
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Cycling is an important part of the mobility transition. However, there is a lack of space for safe road usage whether on foot, by bike or in a car.
E-Bike City: A vision of future road traffic
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What would happen if we radically redistributed road space in our cities? The 'E-Bike City' project at ETH Zurich is investigating this question.
Zurich may remove parking spaces for cycle paths
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The city is allowed to remove 16 white car parking spaces for a cycle path in Schwamendingen. The Administrative Court has rejected an appeal against this.
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.
A city full of one-way streets and priority for bicycles
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ETH researchers are planning the future of transportation in Zurich. They want to allocate half of the roads to bicycles. This is how it could look like.
Zurich's second bicycle highway
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The city is realising the second bicycle priority route in Zurich Seefeld. Cyclists will largely have the right of way on a 2.5-kilometre stretch.
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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Is there a possibility without cars? Interview with transportation researcher Kay Axhausen.
Visionary project for CO2-neutral transport in the city of Zurich
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How does one travel to work? By car? Or even by e-bike? The e-bike is an option that could become more important in the future—especially in view of the climate crisis.
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.
Massive de-roading for cars
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Kay Axhausen in an interview about the E-bike City project as a future vision for mobility.
"We do not want to wait 15 years until a undergrund railway has been built"
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Kay Axhausen is the head of the E-Bike City research project. The radical idea behind it: What if half of all streets belonged to cyclists?
Half of the roads for bicycles
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Do we simply need more space so that everyone can ride his/her bike? ETH surprises with a radical proposal. And criticism comes from an unexpected corner.
Half of the road space for bicycle lanes?
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ETH is starting a visionary project for CO₂ neutral traffic in the city of Zurich. It focuses primarily on e-bikes, bicycles and e-scooters instead of cars.