2018

University of Sydney’s TransportLab on network growth.

Colloquium with Professor Scott J. Cook who is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, United States.

IVT Seminar with Professor Stephane Hess, University of Leeds: Bridging the gap between choice modelling, mathematical psychology and neuro-science.

Autonomous trains are on their way – in fact they’re already here, and there’s very little public discussion about it.  

Which policy frameworks are required in order to gain societal benefit from this novel kind of transportation?

Genetic algorithms are designing efficient and demand-driven public transportation networks. Patrick Manser receives for his master's thesis the VSS price 2018.

Colloquium with Noemi Gryczko on designing and engaging online learning experiences in a more effective way.

Colloquium on environmental psychology with Professor Linda Steg from the University of Groningen.

Marc Sinner's lecture at Treffpunkt Science City - Total Mobil.

Joséphine Bonvin receives the Culmann Price for her master's thesis.

Colloquium with Professor Noelle Eckley Selin from MIT's Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

Colloquium with Professor Bauke Steenhuisen from the TU Delft, Netherlands.

Potential to increase capacity within implied motorway sections. Gabriel Tilg receives for his master's thesis the VSS Price 2018.

Colloquium with Professor Andrea Castelletti, Natural Resources Management at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2nd Swiss Stata User Group Meeting by Ritme and ETH Zurich.  

Webcast with Mouyid Islam from the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida.  

Beda Büchel receives the ASB Presentation Award at Meet & Share Your Research Day from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich.  

Mohsen Nazemi receives the Best Presentation Award for his work on bicycle speed and space perception in Virtual Reality (VR).

Webcast with Alexander Kolpakov, Austin Marie Sipiora and Jacob Labutka about funding and best practices for the future of transit agencies.

Lecture series about Communicative Challenges in Digital Societies with Professor Sune Lehmann from the DTU Denmark.

Colloquium with Professor H. Matsuura, Vice President of the Shoin University in Atsugi, Japan.

Valerio De Martinis illustrates how his SCCER project results contribute to the energy transition.

Interview with Henrik Becker about carpools and autonomous cabs in Switzerland.

Colloquium with Professor F. Jotzo who is director of the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy in Canberra, Australia.

IVT Brownbag with Mauro Salazar from the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC) at ETH Zurich.

Professor Francesco Corman and Doctor Gabrio Ciami about rail capacity increase and cost reduction at once.

Webinar with S. Jang about empirical research and practice in injury prevention, especially for vulnerable road users.

Professor Kay W. Axhausen explains commuter flow statistics from the year 2016 and possible capacity increases.

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) with projected first and last mile concept from the Swiss Transit Lab.

Mobility could benefit extensively from digitalisation.

Webcast with Xiaopeng Li about operations and planning for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs): From trajectory control to capacity analysis.

An empirical assessment by Nikhil Menon on consumers’ perceptions, intended adoption, and impacts on household vehicle ownership.

Webcast with Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen about navigating travel behavior, technology, and business model shifts in a brave new world.

Michael van Eggermond about sustainability and suitability of the dockless bike-share model for Singapore.

Column: Kay W. Axhausen's view on bike-sharing economics in Zurich.

Masters' presentations from the Spring semester 2018.

The proliferation of GPS technology and high speed mobile networks presents exciting opportunities for new insights into travel behaviour.  

Proposition of a new re-sampling methodology that allows to estimate the level of heterogeneity, hence knowing the efficiency of the road infrastructure.

Interview with Henrik Becker about Catch a Car and electric vehicles.

New flats are built where they are not needed, and vice versa. This generates traffic.

Our society will have to decide for or against system optimisation.

MATSim Seminar: This user meeting is an annual event around the  mobility simulation software.

CUTR Webcast with Michael Manville, Brian D. Taylor and Evelyn Blumenberg about the future of US transit.

Public dissertation presentation by P. Braess

Increasingly cleaner, safer, quieter, and more connected.

Dr. Pieter J. Fourie receives the ETH medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis.

Redensification and land development on the Hoenggerberg Campus.

Myra Rotermund receives the CUREM research award for her master's thesis.

Bachelors' and seminar papers from the Spring semester 2018.

CUTR Webast: Countering vehicular weaponization through urban transportation design strategies