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Join us on June 4, 2025 in the afternoon on Hönggerberg Campus, Zürich for the final event of the E-Bike City project followed by an aperitif. This event marks the culmination of an ambitious three-year D-BAUG lighthouse initiative, bringing together researchers from across the department.

The Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) has been a cornerstone of multidisciplinary knowledge exchange and innovation in transportation and land use since 2001. Bringing together academics, researchers, and practitioners from Switzerland and beyond, STRC fosters collaboration and drives progress in all transportation-related fields.

MIT Mobility Forum Episode #134 with Professor Kay Axhausen on the future of transport policy.

CSFM Seminar dedicated to exploring different technological perspectives and the remaining scientific questions around Automatic Train Operation

Public dissertation presentation by Adrian Meister.

The Student Sustainability Committee of ETH Zurich is organising a panel discussion on the motorway referendum. The panellists are Dr Marco Miotti (IfU), Lukas Ballo (IKG) and Kevin Riehl (IVT).

The vote on the expansion of six sections of Swiss national roads at a cost of CHF 5.8 billion (including noise protection and treatment of road runoff) is the subject of controversial debate. Professor Eva Heinen, Dr Tasos Kouvelas and other mobility research experts give their views.

TMP Seminar with Professor Jeppe Rich from the Technical University of Denmark.

More and wider roads will not prevent traffic jams in medium to long term. Professor Eva Heinen explains the research situation at ETH Zurich.

Because of the increasing mobility of the population some motorways in Switzerland are overloaded on a daily basis. Almost 50,000 hours of congestion were counted last year. Dr Anastasios Kouvelas from the Traffic Engineering Research Group (SVT) explains problems and possible solutions.

Public dissertation presentation by Kimia Chavoshi Boroujeni.

Eva Heinen has been Professor of Transportation and Mobility Planning in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich since July 2024. Her interdisciplinary research looks at mobility and transportation at the intersection of sustainable development, spatial planning and health.

Die meisten Städte erheben keine Gebühren für Autofahrten, aber ist dies gerecht? Immerhin sind Lärm und Verschmutzung für Anwohner und Geschäfte negative externe Effekte. Staus zu Spitzenzeiten verschwenden wertvolle Lebenszeit, Geld und Kraftstoff. Sollte das Autofahren in der Stadt kostenpflichtig sein? Dadurch könnten allerdings weniger Verdienende systematisch vom Straßenverkehr ausgeschlossen werden. Könnten diese Verteilungskonflikte ausgleichen werden?

Matthias Andrews García receives the Prix LITRA for his work on time reduction potential through a continental-scale schedule optimisation of long-distance international passenger rail corridors in Europe. His bachelor thesis has been supervised by the Transportation Systems (TS) research group headed by Professor Francesco Corman.

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 KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE) at the University of Cyprus in collaboration with the Imperial College London organizes a training school with emphasis on the monitoring, control and security of intelligent systems and networks.

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.

Joint IVT + Risk Seminar with Professor Morteza Bagheri from the Transportation Systems and Logistics Lab (TSL) at Iran University of Science and Technology.

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.

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?

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.

A full day of MATSim will be held in conjunction with the 12^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2024) in Helsinki.

Free webinar with Meredith Glaser from Ghent University, John Pritchard from the International Transport Forum (ITF), and Orla Campbell who is Head of Regions at Active Travel England.  

IVT Seminar with Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro from TU Delft.

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.

The city of Zurich aims to reduce car traffic to 20 per cent and increase public transport, walking and cycling to a total of 80 per cent. Public transport is prioritized in the city of Zurich. This and other mobility solutions can be found in the research project Compass: Development and change processes for everyday mobility in regional future labs.

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.

The CSFM Symposium will address the importance of promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration among all stakeholders to develop sustainable solutions for the mobility system.

IVT Seminar with Georgios Kapousizis from the University of Twente.

Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

IVT Seminar with Professor Stefan Hess from the University of Leeds.

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr Xudong Jian from the FRS Singapore-ETH Center.

IVT Seminar with Professor Tom Reinhold from traffiQ in Frankfurt.

Kevin Riehl explains the phenomenon of phantom traffic jam and Lukas Ambühl gives us a look into the future.

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!

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.

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.

IVT Seminar with Professor Greg Erhardt from the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

CSFM Seminar co-​organized with the Center for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) looking at latest research on factors influencing the adoption and charging of electric vehicles.

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.

Public dissertation presentation by Zahra Ghandeharioun.

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.

What would happen if we radically redistributed road space in our cities? The 'E-Bike City' project at ETH Zurich is investigating this question.

Interested in the railway system? Engineers give students an insight into the railway industry. Register now!

ISTP Colloquium with Dr. Brilé Anderson, from the Organisation for Economic Co-​operation and Development (OECD), Environmental Economist at Sahel and West Africa Club.

E-Bike City: A way to solve the climate problem? Ideological action? Transport policy?

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.

State-of-the-art approaches and future research directions

Public dissertation presentation by Tzu-Hao Yan.

Radically remodelling the road network with the so-called "E-Bike City" lighthouse project. Will it be tight for cars?