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Annual Symposium of the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) at ETH Zurich.

A full day of MATSim will be held in conjunction with the 13^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025) in Munich.

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.

Professor Kay Axhausen introduced the concept of the E-Bike City during the online lecture series Mobility analysis and planning for human-scale cities hosted by the Mobility Lab at the University of Tartu.

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

Bolt has launched the Urban Fund, a social impact programme designed to accelerate the societal benefits of shared mobility worldwide.

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.

Most cities do not charge for driving. Do you think that is fair? It causes externalities such as noise and pollution to residents and shops. In peak-hours of congestion, valuable life time, money, and fuel are wasted. Do you think driving in the city should be priced? Do you that is fair? This might systematically exclude the poor from the streets. How can we balance these distributional conflicts?

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.

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.  

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.

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

Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cities are characterised by pluralism. This fact is becoming increasingly relevant in the practice of urban governance and 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.

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.

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.

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.

Time travel through the Swiss railroad history. With the help of data sets from the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems.

We are influenced by our living environment mentally and physically. Hence, how should cities and villages look like?

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

The mobility of the Swiss population causes damage every year, mainly to the environment and climate, but also to health.

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.

Traffic situation improvement and coordination of transportation and spatial development.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To meet the challenges in cities related to climate change and increasing urbanization, new approaches to transforming urban space are needed.

Increasing e-bikes accidents continue to be problematic, though.

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.

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.

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

The transformation of mobility can only succeed if evolutionary patterns of transport behavior are overcome.

The share of railway transport is on its highest level since 25 years, whereas truck trips have fallen to about 900,000 per year.

Transport use will continue to grow in the future. However, it will grow more slowly than the population due to social and economic trends such as the increase in working from home, continuing urbanisation and population ageing.

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.

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

Moving goods and people for business and official purposes is essential for a functioning economy.

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.  

Keynote presentation by Professor Kay W. Axhausen at the 20° Congreso Chileno de Ingenieria de Transporte (CCHIT).

NSL Colloquium about the city as a common matter. Exploration of common codes, resources and creative co-living.

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

Lean operating concepts, flexible processing, and enhanced deliveries.

In recent years technological innovations in transportation, such as automated vehicles (AVs), mobility-as-a-service, electric and connected vehicles, have been garnering attention.

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Anastasia Kartasheva from the University of St Gallen.

STRC 2021 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

Study programme results: Consequences of automated driving (ASTRA) and Traffic of the future (SVI)

Summer school featuring large-scale optimization and distributed control with a special focus on applications in both power and transportation systems.

Presentation & panel with Daniel J. Reck about (e-) bikes, (e-) scooters and other mini vehicles which serve as individual people mover.

There is still an impact of Corona on road traffic. Less congestion during commuter traffic, for instance.

The legendary Railway Operations Laboratory has moved to Duebendorf air base. The railway model installation will mainly serve for training and research.

Latest research on emerging mobility services by Daniel Reck at the Mobility4Future Ringvorlesung hosted at TU Dresden.  

Their economic relevance has increased during recent years, too.

The trains might be better occupied thanks to the summer holidays. Nonetheless, the capacity utilisation stays low.

The external cost for mobility amounts to 13,7 Billion Swiss Francs in Switzerland for 2018.

AET COVID-19 Webinar: New approaches, methods and resources, as well as emerging modes and services.

Leisure traffic will be the reason for traffic disturbances from the end of June until mid of September, mainly from Fridays to Sundays.

18% traffic volume decrease corresponds to the level of 2010. The hours spent in congestions were reduced by one third.