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

Public dissertation presentation by Kimia Chavoshi Boroujeni.

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.

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 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.

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

Public dissertation presentation by Tzu-Hao Yan.

Transport planning in the OECD countries is at a challenged-stage due to the success of their car-road-systems threatening to miss their agreed climate goals. The event will discuss the potential of micro-mobility and micro-mobility friendly cities & suburbs to make a difference and to offer a way out of our current dilemma.  

ETH Risk Center's public Resilience Webinar with Dr Siqi Songi from the Singapore-​ETH Center.

Professor Kay Axhausen's farewell lecture

NSL Colloquium with transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on current issues.  

Public dissertation presentation by Grace Kagho.

CSFM Seminar with Josephine Leuba and Nicole Mathys from the Federal Office For Spatial Development (ARE), as well as with Thomas Heck from the Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

Public dissertation presentation by Thomas Spanninger.

IVT Seminar with Dr Steffen Blume from artifact.swiss and Professor Deb Panja from Utrecht University, co-organized by the ETH Risk Center.

IVT Seminar with Professor Konstantinos Ampountolas from the University of Thessaly, Greece.

D-BAUG Spotlight Seminar Series with Dr Maria Laura Delle Monache from UC Berkeley.

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.

Risk Center Seminar Series featuring Professor Meisam Akbarzadeh from the Isfahan University of Technology in Iran. He will talk about urban transportation systems which are prone to recurrent and non-recurrent congestions, and further he shows how to investigate patterns of congestion in real-world cities.  

On 26 October 2023, the Association of Scientific Staff invites all students, researchers and professors to the department's annual “Meet & Share” event. Doctoral students from 10 Institutes will present selected case studies to illustrate the many ways in which research at D-​BAUG helps engineer a more sustainable future. Keynotes will be given by Professors Eleni Chatzi and Max Maurer. Don't miss this exciting event and the apéro afterwards!

CSFM Seminar co-​organized together with the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy featuring Bessie Noll from the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG), Dr Betsy Sandoval Guzman from the Vehicle Systems Group at Empa, Alessio Levis from the International Political Economy and Environmental Politics group (IPEEP), and Roman Rosenfellner from the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO).

ISTP Colloquium with Regina Witter from the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) where she is deputy head of agglomeration traffic.

The CSFM organizes the first technical workshop of the Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) of the Swiss Mobility System.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Laurent Cartier from the Swiss Gemmological Institute (SSEF) about requirements on risks and transparency for mineral supply chains.

Workshop at the 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC-2023).

Ongoing research and results of recently completed projects from various transportation disciplines.

hEART 2023 - International forum for transportation researchers hosted at ETH Zurich.

Workshop at the 11^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation at ETH Zurich.

A full day meeting will be held at ETH Zurich in conjunction with the 11^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2023).

The CSFM is co-​organizing IEEE Digital Twin 2023 as part of the Digital Twin Workshop Series.

The Global Smart Cities Summit & the 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (GSCS & ICUI 2023) will be held in Hong Kong on 20-23 August 2023.  

At zero cost, and practically zero carbon, BTR brings transportation engineers, planners, and policymakers together globally by removing the burden of travel and joining each other online.

Mobility and sustainability on the Hönggerberg campus of ETH Zurich. A guided tour by Campus Services shows how the Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse is being redesigned.

The future belongs to the bicycle. But where should it go? It competes with public transport, cars and pedestrians for scarce space.

IVT - Seminar with Dr Antonio Sciarretta from IFPEN in Lyon on minimizing energy consumption for electric and non-electric vehicles.

This colloquium will not only present the preliminary results, but also actively involve the participants in shaping the research questions from the D-​BAUG lighthouse project E-​Bike City conducted by its seven research groups. With various presentations and workshops, the researchers, experts and stakeholders will deepen their research topics and methods and, wherever possible, involve them in the research process.

Symposium 2023 with Kristin Szadkowski (Volkswagen AG), Gianluca Ambrosetti (Synhelion SA), Roland Moser (SBB), Andreas Mehlhorn (Siemens Mobility) and researchers from ETH Zurich.

Two-day seminar on design, new technologies, novel data sources, and equity for sustainable mobility systems.

Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference

CSFM seminar with Dr Erik Wilhelm from Kyburz Switzerland and Professor Hua Cai from Purdue University on research on e-​fleets.

IVT - Seminar with Professor Patrick Rérat of the University of Lausanne on cycling practice, planning and politics in Switzerland.

First CSFM seminar with Professor Martin Raubal from IKG ETH Zurich and Thomas Hettinger from SBB on spatial data and data analytics for sustainable mobility.

IVT - Seminar with Professor Karel Martens, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) on new approaches towards transport planning.

Webinar with Dr Göktuğ Tenekeci and Dr Marc Semerding on the shift in travel patterns initiated by the new work from home culture in Birmingham.

Will e-​bikes bring Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Switzerland? 

Christopher Tchervenkov is defending his doctoral thesis.

Mini conference: Automatisation and digitalisation basics—Timetable planning

Felix Zwick is defending his doctoral thesis.

Alexander Genser's doctoral examination. This is a hybrid event, you can join online.  

Designing anti-fragile large-scale traffic frameworks

Professor Francesco Corman about the importance of AI empowered dashboards for passenger-oriented traffic control at the workshop The Control Room of the future: AI empowered dashboards held at the University of Ghent.

Increased multilocal work spaces and less commuting. What is the effect of the decentralization experience caused by the pandemic on a pan-European scale?

Does low-priced public transport enhance green mobility?

FCL Global Seminar with Dr Pieter Herthogs on planning and managing the growth of cities today and in the future.

Webinar on big data, GPS, and machine learning for transport research

Public dissertation presentation by Cuauhtemoc Anda from the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Center.

What lessons do we draw from the Covid crisis as a field test for a more sustainable urban landscape in Switzerland?

A full day meeting will be held at KU Leuven (Belgium) in conjunction with the 10^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2022).

STRC 2022 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference

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.

Kick-off Symposium

NSL Colloquium 2022|1 on politics, planning, space, technology, design and spatial planning.

The event allows scientific exchange between the different NRP 78 research groups and those of the SNSF special call on Coronaviruses.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Sonia Yeh on achieving a sustainable low-​carbon transformation in the transportation sector.

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Fabian Muhly, cyber advisory and scientific collaborator at the ETH Military Academy (MILAC).

Presentations of current transport research topics at the IVT Alumni Seminar 2022.

IVT - Seminar with Professor S. Hess from the University of Leeds.  

ISTP Colloquium with Dr. Sebastian Levi from the Hertie School Berlin.

Webinar with Professor Gerard de Jong from the Institute for Transport Studies at University of Leeds and John Siraut from the international engineering and consulting group Jacobs featuring the AET Transport and Mobility Forum.

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr. Zhilu Lai from the ETH-Singapore Center.  

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).

Professor Francesco Corman explains how to improve the performance of transport systems in the RAS International Webinar.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Dr. Zheng Chang from the BNU-​HKBU United International College, China.  

Calum Handforth in the FCL Global Seminar on redefining a truly 'smart' city as one based on the innovation, collaboration and aspirations of its population.

CUTR FTSS webinar with Acey Roberts from WGI Engineering Firm and Alex Koszegi from D-Wave Systems Inc.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Hans Gersbach from the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich.

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.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Paul Lehmann from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Assistant Professor Jimmy Chih-Hsien Peng from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-​​ETH Centre.  

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Dominique Foray, Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation at EPF Lausanne.  

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Professor Jorge M.V. Bravo from NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon.

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr Sylvie Briand, MD, PhD, MPH who is Director of the Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness department (GIH) at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

NSL Forum: A dialogue between practise and higher education. Starting point is the pandemic and climate change is the background of the discussion.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Martin Ackermann about science's interaction with policy-​making and with the society during the COVID-​19 pandemic.

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr. Zhilu Lai from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-​ETH Centre.   

ISTP Colloquium with Profesor César A. Hidalgo about applied artificial intelligence, moral and ethical aspects.

ISTP Colloquium with A. Eckmann and N. Stolz presenting their Master's theses about low-​​carbon transport transition in Switzerland and net-​zero emissions goals in the power sector.

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Filipe Barata from the Chair of Information Management at ETH Zurich.