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Mobility, transportation, sustainable development, spatial planning and health
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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.
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.
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?
Innovative mobility solutions
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Railway Summer Camp 2024
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Interested in the railway system? Engineers give students an insight into the railway industry. Register now!
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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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
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.
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.
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.
The "smart moves" retrospective
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During the last months, ETH Zurich's awareness campaign unveiled how to get around the campus and the city in a smart manner. Clarissa Livingston was there to present the D-BAUG's lighthouse project: the E-Bike City.
Providing health care recommendations and innovative solutions to fight the coronavirus disease 2019
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Do not miss the press conference from the Swiss National Sciene Foundation of the NRP 78 Covid-19 project which is going to be available as online stream on Tuesday 14 November at 9:30.
Hans-Peter Bärtschi's industrial and railway world
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In homage to the architectural historian and photographer Hans-Peter Bärtschi, we celebrate a new photo book from the ETH Library and the complete digitisation of his photographic archive.
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.
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.
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.
A multi-objective calibration framework for capturing the behavioral patterns of autonomously-driven vehicles
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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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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.
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.
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.
Required size of platforms, ramps, and subways
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Professor Ulrich Weidmann developed the so-called fundamental diagram for pedestrians in a technical report titled Pedestrians' Transport Technology. Since then, platforms, subways, stairs, ramps and lifts in railway stations have been dimensioned on the basis of his diagram.
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).
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.
How do the Swiss spend their time and money? A longitudinal smartphone diary study with GPS
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TimeUse+ is a novel survey methodology to collect data on individuals’ time use, trael, and expenditure behaviour to understand these shifts.
«smart moves»: Sustainably towards net zero
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In order to further improve the mobility infrastructure at ETH, we need your feedback. Please take part in our short survey.
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.
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.
Traffic forecast for the upcoming holidays
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In view of the upcoming public holidays, traffic on Swiss roads is expected to be busy again. The extended weekends over Ascension Day, Whitsun and the Feast of Corpus Christi are particularly prone to traffic jams.
Are muscle bikes now being replaced by e-bikes?
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Almost every second bicycle sold last year was an e-bike. And this happened not only in Switzerland.
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.
Tickets to drive through the Gotthard – How should that work?
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Electronic booking system or mobility pricing? Professor Kay Axhausen and Professor Alexander Erath see certain advantages and certain disadvantages.
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.
Mobility and transport microcensus
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How far do people in Switzerland travel every day? Why do they travel? And what modes of transport do they use?
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.
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.
The village store should be reopened and used again
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Professor Kay Axhausen comments on the framework conditions for the future mobility.
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.
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!
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.
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.
"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?
Extending bottlenecks—outdated concept
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Professor Kay Axhausen comments on the deadlock on motorway A1 at Grauholz: Road charge, extension, or shifting towards public transport and human powered mobility?
Traffic forecast for Christmas and New Year (2022/2023)
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Traffic congestion and major obstructions are to be expected due to holiday travel to the winter sport resorts over the Christmas holidays and New Year's Eve.
Difference in urban planning
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Interdisciplinarity as an approach to understanding the complexity of contemporary urban societies.
Associate Professor of Transport Systems
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Francesco Corman has been promoted to Associate Professor of Transport Systems. Congratulations!
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.
External costs due to infrastructure overload
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The Swiss economy pays several billion francs for congested roads and trains every year. The Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) calculates time loss on the roads and the comfort costs for public transport.
Prix LITRA
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Fiona Arnet and Florian Fuchs have won the Prix LITRA 2022 within the transport systems research field.
175 years of rail in Switzerland: Railway simulation
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Technology has developed during 175 years of Swiss railroad history. In the railway operations laboratory in Duebendorf (ZH), new technology is being tested and ciritcal situations are simulated.
5317 kilometers in 175 years
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Time travel through the Swiss railroad history. With the help of data sets from the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems.
Influence of the environment on our health
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We are influenced by our living environment mentally and physically. Hence, how should cities and villages look like?
When the train door is stuck
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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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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.
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.
Transport causes climate and environmental damage of 6 billion Swiss francs per year
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The mobility of the Swiss population causes damage every year, mainly to the environment and climate, but also to health.
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?
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.
Federal roads 2021: Traffic increased again
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The Corona pandemic had an impact on the national road network last year as well: Traffic increased again but was below the level of previous years.
Switzerland 2035
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Will there be fully automated cars on Swiss roads by 2035?
Traffic forecast for the upcoming holidays
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With regard to the upcoming bank holidays it will be busy on Swiss roads network.
It’s important to factor in how people feel
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In the race to combat climate change, sustainable transport systems can play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. As well as focusing on the technological issues at stake, current research also investigates whether there is public acceptance for the changes.
Different types of traffic congestion
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The interview with Professor Kay Axhausen on Radio 1 during the Morgenshow.
Smart traffic lights and smart cars
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Will traffic be handled more efficiently? Where are the limits of this new traffic trend? Alexander Genser in an interview.
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.
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.
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.
Less traffic deaths—more seriously injured
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Increasing e-bikes accidents continue to be problematic, though.
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.
Improvement of mobility data usage for an efficient transport system
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For optimal use of public and private transport infrastructures and services a better flow of information between infrastructure operators, transport companies, private providers and transport users is needed.
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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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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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.
Driving or scooting towards shared mobility: What’s in it for urban dwellers?
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As emissions from transport are still increasing in various countries, shared mobility might be one lever to shift transport away from the private car.
Tackling the decarbonization of transport together
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The transformation of mobility can only succeed if evolutionary patterns of transport behavior are overcome.
Transalpine freight transport: Empowering the shift to rail
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The share of railway transport is on its highest level since 25 years, whereas truck trips have fallen to about 900,000 per year.