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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.
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!
Prix LITRA
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Sandro Tanner's master's thesis on tradable mobility credits for more climate protection wins the Prix LITRA 2023.
Transport Policy Prize 2023
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Patrick Bösch, Felix Becker, Henrik Becker and Kay Axhausen won the Transport Policy Prize for their paper 'Cost-based analysis of autonomous mobility services' at the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR 2023) in Montréal.
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.
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!
Route choice modelling for cyclists on dense urban networks
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Professor Kay Axhausen receives the Outstanding Paper Award from the TRB Bike Committee at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2023). Congratulations to the whole team of researchers: Adrian Meister, Matteo Felder, and Basil Schmid.
Prix LITRA
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Fiona Arnet and Florian Fuchs have won the Prix LITRA 2022 within the transport systems research field.
Solving the train unit shunting problem using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning with routing optimization
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Jacob Trepat Borecka has won the the second prize in the 2021 INFORMS Railway Application Section for his conference paper based on his Master's thesis carried out at the TU Delft.
Power peaks in railway networks
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Daniel Regueiro Sánchez wins the Prix LITRA 2021 for the best master's thesis in the domain of public transport systems.
Why urbanites prefer bikes over e-scooters (or vice versa)
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Daniel Reck wins the 2021 ITF-Young Researcher of the Year award.
DTU Æresdoktor 2020
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Professor Kay W. Axhausen receives the degree of Doctor Technices honoris causa from DTU in Denmark.
Integrating discrete choice models with MATSim scoring
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Sebastian Hörl receives the best paper award at the 10th International Workshop on Agent-Based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models (ABMTrans 2021).
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.
Time-to-Green predictions: A framework to enhance SPaT messages using machine learning
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SVT members together with Kaidi Yang and Monica Menendez have won the ITSC Best Student Paper Award at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Best new researcher
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Mohsen Nazemi has been selected as best new researche at the International Cycling Safety Conference in Brisbane.
Algorithm-based design for line and timetable variants
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- Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme MSc
Joël Amstutz wins the 2019 Prix LITRA for his Master's Thesis about algorithm-based design for line and timetable variants for long-distance trains in Switzerland.
Young Railway Operations Research Award 2019
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Ambra Toletti is the winner of the Young Railway Operation Research Award at the Rail Norrköping Conference 2019.
PT network design in the age of autonomous vehicles
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- Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme MSc
Genetic algorithms are designing efficient and demand-driven public transportation networks. Patrick Manser receives for his master's thesis the VSS price 2018.
Autonomous cargo ships in Australia
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Joséphine Bonvin receives the Culmann Price for her master's thesis.
Evaluating the effects of automated vehicle technology on motorways
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- Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme MSc
Potential to increase capacity within implied motorway sections. Gabriel Tilg receives for his master's thesis the VSS Price 2018.
Quantification, prediction and communication of uncertainty in public transport operations
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Beda Büchel receives the ASB Presentation Award at Meet & Share Your Research Day from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich.
Virtual Reality bicycle research
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Mohsen Nazemi receives the Best Presentation Award for his work on bicycle speed and space perception in Virtual Reality (VR).
Data-Driven Transit Simulation
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Dr. Pieter J. Fourie receives the ETH medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis.
Case study Switzerland: Accessibility effects of autonomous vehicles
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Myra Rotermund receives the CUREM research award for her master's thesis.