2016

Interesting perspectives for the Swiss traffic system.

IVT Seminar with C. Calastri, Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds.

IVT Seminar with Professor V.L. Knoop from TU Delft.

IVT Seminar with Professor M. Munizaga, Universidad de Chile, Santiago-de-Chile.

IVT Seminar with Professor K. Nagel from the Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr (ILS), TU Berlin.

The Swiss Federal Council sets preconditions for public transportation real-time applications.

Electronically controlled and dynamic price system.

New urban structures and unintended mobility side-effects.

Which traffic problems cannot be resolved by Big Data?

Rapid transport of people and goods is a growing demand as well as an economic necessity.

Bike to the Future, an exhibit by Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), was returning for its second run at the PARK(ing) Day.

Will our houses be connected to autonomous transport systems? Let's have a seat.

Research work currently ongoing at the IVT in Zurich is aiming to go a step further in providing algorithmic support for scheduling.

The 80^th LITRA general meeting awarded this year's winners of the LITRA price.

The partial removal of the Inner Loop might make Rochester, New York, the city that finally breaks a ruinous mid-century mold.

New summer school in Cuba "Learning from Havana".  

The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim available as open access publication.

On some Swiss motorways 80km/h speed limit is supposed to support the traffic flow. ETH expert Monica Menendez explains how.

M. Jakob, M. Menendez and J. Cao received the Topic Area C Award for their paper A dynamic macroscopic parking pricing model.

The IVT elaborated a second opinion for the planned BLS backshop, which has been published by the City of Berne on July 8th 2016.

Dr. Monica Menendez participated in EcoSuiza 2016, a program sponsored by the Swiss Embassy in Argentina to promote Swiss sustainable practices in Latin America.

The ETH Medal for the best Master's Thesis was given to Lukas Ambühl, who is now a member of the SVT research group.

Autonomous cars will imply an extensive transportation system remodelling and lead the debate in transport policy.

Insight in the archive of the ETH Library, who presents a relevant piece of Switzerland’s transport and technological history.

Cycling is one of the most space efficient and sustainable mode of transportation in cities.

Qiao Ge has won the "2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad" from the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

Since 2010, ETH Zurich has forged strong links in Singapore. The Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre started recently on its second phase.  

"Catch a Car"is the first station independent car sharing service in Switzerland.

Experiences from a pedestrian counting experiment with Placemeter.

By application of pedestrian simulation software the effects of the planned complete redesign of Lausanne main station’s subterranean pedestrian architecture could be determined.

The project «Cargo sous terrain» (CST) aims to connect subterraneously the most relevant production and sales sites in Switzerland.

Rapid urbanization and increasing demand for transportation burdens urban road infrastructures.

A postulate launched the idea of a teleferic from the main station to the campus in Zurich.

The Swiss Federal Railways decided to electrify their network in order to be independent from coal imports 100 years ago.