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Technological Perspectives and Scientific Challenges of Automatic Train Operation
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- IVT
CSFM Seminar dedicated to exploring different technological perspectives and the remaining scientific questions around Automatic Train Operation
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
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- Mobility
- D-BAUG
Three days networking opportunities for planners, architects, engineers, but also academics, policy makers and engaged citizens to discuss the development of the city and its transport system.
The conservation of risk: Insights from Einstein at ETH Zurich
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- ETH Risk Center
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- IVT
Joint IVT + Risk Seminar with Professor Morteza Bagheri from the Transportation Systems and Logistics Lab (TSL) at Iran University of Science and Technology.
IATBR Lifetime Achievement Award
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Professor Kay Axhausen received the IATBR Lifetime Achievement Award for fundamental and sustained contributions to travel behaviour research and influenced transportists through his writings, teaching, service and nurturing of younger professionals.
Exchange in transport sciences Switzerland-Japan
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IVT Seminar with Professor Fumitaka Kurauchi and Du Ran from Gifu University, Professor Hiroe Ando from Kumamoto University and Professor Satoshi Sugiura from Hokkaido University.
Inverse optimization for routing problems
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IVT Seminar with Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro from TU Delft.
Dynamic data driven approaches for stochastic delay propagation avoidance in railways (DADA)
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- IVT
- Mobility
Closing event featuring Professor Franceso Corman, Dr. Thomas Spanninger, Matej Jusup, Viera Klasovitá and Dr. Bernardo Martin-Iradi from ETH Zurich, Professor Alessio Trivella from the University of Twente and Dr. Mayra Bermudez from SBB.
Traffic safety impact and user acceptance of the smart connected bike
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IVT Seminar with Georgios Kapousizis from the University of Twente.
A profile likelihood approach for detecting and avoiding poor local optima in choice model estimation
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IVT Seminar with Professor Stefan Hess from the University of Leeds.
The German experiment with low flat rates for public transport: An economic and political evaluation
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- Mobility
IVT Seminar with Professor Tom Reinhold from traffiQ in Frankfurt.
Traffic congestion on Swiss roads: Recepies against gridlock
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Kevin Riehl explains the phenomenon of phantom traffic jam and Lukas Ambühl gives us a look into the future.
Life is not fair
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Kevin Riehl is discussing the importance of finding a socially feasible balance between efficiency and fairness when designing traffic demand policy for the road. And he wins the FameLab semifinal competition 2024. Congratulations!
Street fight
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- E-Bike City
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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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- E-Bike City
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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.
Lessons from the design of integrated on-demand transit systems in two cities
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- IVT
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IVT Seminar with Professor Greg Erhardt from the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
How will the railway look like in 2050?
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Many aspects contribute to the further development of the technologies, but no single game changer could be identified. Developments are expected in automation; revolutionary changes are perceived as unlikely.
Optimization of shared on-demand transportation
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- Mobility
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Public dissertation presentation by Zahra Ghandeharioun.
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.
Motorists should make way for two-wheelers in Zurich
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E-Bike City: A way to solve the climate problem? Ideological action? Transport policy?
Zurich may remove parking spaces for cycle paths
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- E-Bike City
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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.
Train timetable rescheduling
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State-of-the-art approaches and future research directions
Enhancing decision-making in railway maintenance and inspection through the integration of on-board monitoring (OBM) technique into infrastructure management
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- Civil engineering
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Public dissertation presentation by Tzu-Hao Yan.
Pushing cars out of the city?
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Radically remodelling the road network with the so-called "E-Bike City" lighthouse project. Will it be tight for cars?
New professor for transportation and mobility planning
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Eva Heinen research focuses on the mobility sector, specifically on sustainable development, transport planning, spatial planning, non-motorized traffic, and health.
Visions and dilemmas
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Professor Kay Axhausen's farewell lecture
Even more space for e-bikes and bicycles?
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- E-Bike City
- Mobility
- Spatial planning
- Urban design
Zurich City Council, ETH Zurich, and the bike-friendly city in an interview on Radio SRF 1.
Transport Planning – Where do we go now?
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- Mobility
NSL Colloquium with transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on current issues.
Planning for the future of transport with agent-based modelling: The role of on-demand mobility services
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- Mobility
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Public dissertation presentation by Grace Kagho.
City of Zurich: ETH presents a vision of a 'cycling city' with one-way streets
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- E-Bike City
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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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- E-Bike City
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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.
Uncertainty-aware predictions of train delay in real-time
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- Mobility
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Public dissertation presentation by Thomas Spanninger.
Complex approaches for resilient transport systems
- ETH Risk Center
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- Transport Systems
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IVT Seminar with Dr Steffen Blume from artifact.swiss and Professor Deb Panja from Utrecht University, co-organized by the ETH Risk Center.
Parameter identification of commercially implemented ACC systems
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IVT Seminar with Professor Konstantinos Ampountolas from the University of Thessaly, Greece.
CAVs and motorway bottlenecks
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Using connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) as mobile actuators to perform speed coordination tasks. Read more about the real-case study in Antwerp, Belgium.
A multi-objective calibration framework for capturing the behavioral patterns of autonomously-driven vehicles
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- IVT
- Mobility
Calibration of car-following (CF) models is considered a very important task towards reproduction of individual vehicle behaviors and collective traffic phenomena.
Aspects, challenges, and significance of mobility
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- E-Bike City
- Mobility
- Spatial planning
- Urban design
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.
11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation
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- Political science
- Engineering sciences
- Economics
hEART 2023 - International forum for transportation researchers hosted at ETH Zurich.
Public Transportation: (Low) fares, equity and policy
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Workshop at the 11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation at ETH Zurich.
MATSim User Meeting
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A full day meeting will be held at ETH Zurich in conjunction with the 11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 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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- Urban design
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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- Mobility
- Spatial planning
- Urban design
All different road users hardly find space next to each other in the city, says Professor Kay Axhausen in an interview.
Spending a few hours outdoors
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Professor Francesco Corman introduces himself and his research in a short interview by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG).
It starts with a glance. How ETH researchers contribute to sustainable campus mobility
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- Mobility
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- Urban design
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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- Spatial planning
TimeUse+ is a novel survey methodology to collect data on individuals’ time use, trael, and expenditure behaviour to understand these shifts.
Planning a city for bicycles
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The future belongs to the bicycle. But where should it go? It competes with public transport, cars and pedestrians for scarce space.
Energy-efficient optimization strategies for electric and connected mobility
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IVT - Seminar with Dr Antonio Sciarretta from IFPEN in Lyon on minimizing energy consumption for electric and non-electric vehicles.
Advances in transportation & Mobility planning
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Two-day seminar on design, new technologies, novel data sources, and equity for sustainable mobility systems.
Modeling the current use of ride-pooling and its future applications with automated vehicles
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Felix Zwick receives the European Friedrich-List-Prize for his dissertation.
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.
Cycling in Switzerland
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IVT - Seminar with Professor Patrick Rérat of the University of Lausanne on cycling practice, planning and politics in Switzerland.
DiffUrb News
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- Spatial planning
- Urban design
Cities are characterised by pluralism. This fact is becoming increasingly relevant in the practice of urban governance and planning.
The right solution to fight traffic congestion on motorways in Switzerland?
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Professor Kay Axhausen explains the state of the science and provides possible solutions in an interview.
Outstanding Bachelor's and Master's theses in road and traffic engineering
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Florian Fuchs and Johannes Brunner received for their excellent work the VSS Award. Congratulations!
Redefining transport planning through a transport justice lens
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IVT - Seminar with Professor Karel Martens, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) on new approaches towards transport 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.
E-Bike City Kick-Off 2022
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- IfU
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Will e-bikes bring Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Switzerland?
Empirical and simulation studies on parking in Switzerland
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- Mobility
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Christopher Tchervenkov is defending his doctoral thesis.
Digitalisation in railway traffic
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Mini conference: Automatisation and digitalisation basics—Timetable planning
Modeling the current use of ride-pooling and its future applications with automated vehicles
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- Mobility
- Doktorierende
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Felix Zwick is defending his doctoral thesis.
When the train door is stuck
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- IVT
- Machine learning
- Mobility
Small malfunctions can lead to long delays in the railway system. Artificial intelligence aims to minimise this problem.
RAIL 2050 - Perspective
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- IVT
- Publikationen
- Mobility
RAIL 2050 is based on a series of studies commissioned by the Federal Office of Transport (FOT), elaborated by research companies and universities, including the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems.
AI for mobility research: Towards fully automated travel diaries
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- Mobility
Webinar on big data, GPS, and machine learning for transport research
Digital twin travellers: Disaggregated travel demand from aggregated mobile phone data – A privacy by design approach
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- Mobility
- Doktorat D-BAUG
Public dissertation presentation by Cuauhtemoc Anda from the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Center.
The 9 Euro ticket is a Midsummer Night's Dream which will be over by the end of August
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This ticket is quite popular—21 million have been sold so far. It is supposed to support travel during inflation and push public transport.
Mobility in the course of time—Swiss world of transport
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How will our future mobility look like? Professor Kay Axhausen in the Interview for SRF School.
Application of machine learning classifiers in train route scheduling
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How much are common machine learning classifiers, such as Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) better in forecasting than traditional discrete choice models?
MATSim User Meeting 2022
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A full day meeting will be held at KU Leuven (Belgium) in conjunction with the 10th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2022).
Switzerland 2035
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Will there be fully automated cars on Swiss roads by 2035?
22nd Swiss Transport Research Conference
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- Mobility
- Spatial planning
STRC 2022 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference
HK-Swiss Symposium on Future Cities
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- Data science
- Health sciences
Autonomous vehicles, global warming and climate mitigation, behavioural changes and new urban form under COVID-19 challenges, big data, shared mobility, IoT, public health, urban infrastructure and more.
IVT Alumni 2022
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- IVT
- Mobility
- Civil engineering
- Spatial planning
- Urban design
Presentations of current transport research topics at the IVT Alumni Seminar 2022.
MFC and battery consumption model
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Dr Michail Makridis' contribution to modelling acceleration dynamics of vehicles based on engine parameters, also considering the environmental conditions and driver behavior.
The path towards herd immunity
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IVT - Seminar with Professor S. Hess from the University of Leeds.
Solving Zurich's daily traffic congestion—different approaches
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Virtually every morning and evening there is a traffic jam in Zurich. Kay Axhausen explains in an interview what could be done.
How to prevent traffic congestions on motorways
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Professor Kay W. Axhausen sees the congestion hours on the rise again.
AI & Mobility
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- Machine learning
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Introduction of a system-wide discussion on how AI and advanced analytics can play a role to shape the performance of transportation systems and the mobility of the future at the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD EPFL 2022).
One cannot eliminate ski resorts, but there are other options
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Professor Kay Axhausen on possibilities how to face congestion problems in the Buenderland region. One obvious solution would be a congestion charge for trips to ski resorts.
Below the line: E-scooters do harm the environment
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Daniel Reck explains in an interview how shared e-scooters can push the mobility transition.
New study challenges e-scooter firms’ lower emissions claims
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A study by researchers in Switzerland has challenged the claims of micromobility companies that their vehicles help reduce carbon emissions in cities.
Shared e-scooters harm the climate more than they would help
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Shared e-scooters and e-bikes are considered to be environmentally friendly. However, they are not as a new ETH study unveils.
E-bikes and e-scooters harm the climate more than previously assumed
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Researchers at ETH Zurich assessed how sustainable e-scooters and e-bikes are. Their results might be unexpected for many of us.
Shared e-scooters and e-bikes are not very environmentally friendly
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An ETH study unveils that e-scooters and e-bikes do not support the reduction of CO2 emissions in cities.
Eco-friendly. As if! E-scooters harm the climate
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Electric scooters hardly replace trips made by car, instead they substitute walking paths, bicycle trips, tram and bus rides. This is shown in a study by ETH which is the first of its kind worldwide.
E-scooter rentals are rather harmful to the environment
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Shared e-scooters and e-bikes are considered to be climate-friendly. However, in a new study ETH researchers show that they do more harm than good - at least when they are rented and not owned. The study was conducted in the city of Zurich.
Full of drive for transport
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- Mobility
- Spatial planning
Lukas Ambühl is one step ahead with a digital city twin. Is this a game changer for transport planning?
Traffic jam is back
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- Mobility
In the meantime, our city streets are as busy as before. Professor Kay Axhausen on the mobility transition in the wrong direction.
Air cabs and underground deliveries
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Digital, carbonless, shared: This is how we will move in the future. Our shopping delivery will reach us by air or underground freight. Our mobility area of life is turning upside down.
Digitalized public transport systems: Understanding, predicting, improving
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D-BAUG Science Talk with Professor Francesco Corman from the Transport Systems research group (TS) at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) at ETH Zurich.
A pandemic? Right in the middle of climate change. What does that mean for spatial development in Switzerland? A dialogue.
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- IVT
- D-ARCH
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NSL Forum: A dialogue between practise and higher education. Starting point is the pandemic and climate change is the background of the discussion.
A real urbanity dream
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- Mobility
- Spatial planning
It was a perfect sunny day, warm, beautiful open spaces with people everywhere - a real urbanity dream. Lukas Ballo in an interview.
The 13 billion question
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- Mobility
Scientists have investigated true-cost pricing in transportation.
The world's largest experiment in Switzerland – Is transport pricing really worth it?
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How do you commute if you have to pay for every meter of road or rail yourself?
Transport pricing in practice
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Reduce the external costs of transport in respect to health, climate, and congestion.
Power peaks in railway networks
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- IVT
- Awards
- Computer and information technology
Daniel Regueiro Sánchez wins the Prix LITRA 2021 for the best master's thesis in the domain of public transport systems.
Center for Sustainable Future Mobility
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- IVT
- Sustainability
- Mobility
- D-BAUG
- D-MAVT
Mobility is one of the big issues of the day – in the face of climate change, what is needed are sustainable, future-proof traffic and transport systems.
Optimization and control in infrastructure networks
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Summer school featuring large-scale optimization and distributed control with a special focus on applications in both power and transportation systems.
Analysis of heterogeneity in travel behavior changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Los Angeles region
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IVT-Seminar with Professor G. Circella from the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis.
Slowly faster
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Cars are driving slower, bicycles and e-scooters are faster and faster in our cities.
Testing new railway technologies and simulating hairy situations
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The legendary Railway Operations Laboratory has moved to Duebendorf air base. The railway model installation will mainly serve for training and research.
Achieving better traffic management
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It is a well-known issue that many roads have traffic jams during peak periods. Big data is still almost never used for traffic management.