2019

Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones.

Increased risk of congestion can occur on certain main roads, border crossings and car terminals.

Presentations by N. Lanzetti and Dr. A. Kouvelas on game-theoretical perspectives on transportation systems and multi-region urban networks.

Researchers are using VR in cycling experiments to reveal users’ cycling behaviour and preferences in different environments.

Work at IVT has produced a new software package, eqasim, that drastically simplifies the design of scenarios for agent based models using open data.

Daniel Reck is currently visiting the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) at the University of Sydney.

IVT-Seminar with Professor Stelios Timotheou from the University of Cyprus.

The Federal Council has taken note of the mobility pricing impact analysis for the Zug region.

IVT-Seminar with Professor S. Samaranayake, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor K.W. Axhausen about the key dilemma of today’s transport policy that too many cars are fighting for the limited road space.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Deljana Iossifova, School of Environment, Education and Development of the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester.

IVT-Seminar with Dr. Thomas Riedel from Verkehrs-Systeme AG.

ETH researchers have shown that we can use the structure of urban road networks to predict their traffic capacity.  

Mohsen Nazemi has been selected as best new researche at the International Cycling Safety Conference in Brisbane.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor R. Garrett from Social and Political Science and Environmental System Science at ETH Zurich.

ETH researchers have shown that we can use the structure of urban road networks to predict their traffic capacity.

The transport performance of goods transport rose by 2.1% in 2018 compared with the previous year. Growth in road transport was 2.5% and in rail transport 1.4%.

NSL Colloquium with Professor M. Neuman from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster.

Swiss transport policy aims towards traffic relocation from road to rail for transalpine heavy traffic.

ISTP Colloquium with Andrés Sepúlveda from the El Bosque University in Bogotá, Colombia.

Billions of vehicle observations from more than 40 cities show how road and bus network topology explains around 90% of the empirically observed critical point variation.

Prof. em. P. Bovy from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne about big events as catalysts for more sustainable metropolitan mobilities.  

Underground railway and cycling path on the former railway tracks – a vision for the Zurich lake region.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr. S. Ziaja from the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn.  

MATSim Workshop at ITSC2019, the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference in Auckland, New Zealand.

Professor F. Corman's talk at the ETH Risk Center Seminar Series on digital transformation.

The railway operations laboratory (EBL) is closing down by 31.12.2020.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Ian Staffell from the Imperial College London.

The number of heat waves, rock falls and avalanches is increasing through climate change, so are the damages to rail and roads.

More traffic in combination with reduced speed. This is Kay Axhausen's forecast after the big crash.

Joël Amstutz wins the 2019 Prix LITRA for his Master's Thesis about algorithm-based design for line and timetable variants for long-distance trains in Switzerland.

Public dissertation presentation by B. Schmid about time-use, travel and shopping behavior: Results of a multi-stage household survey.

Future Cities: Actions is an annual conference organised by the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), a programme under the Singapore-ETH Centre.

Anastasios Kouvelas in an interview about possible views on the future of our daily traffic behaviours.

Public dissertation presentation by M. Sinner about the effects of the autonomous bus on the railway system.

The thesis explores how a centrally operated fleet of automated vehicles can significantly reduce congestion if controlled intelligently.

Kay Axhausen about collaboration with other disciplines, and about funding road infrastructure for autonomous cars in Switzerland.

nextRail19 - Symposium and seminar: Agile models for railway system planners and managers.

Swiss youth and children use public transportation more frequently than they used to twenty years ago. They also walk more and bike less.

ETH Week 2019 is all about Mobility involving a close collaboration with the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-Mobility).

Joint seminar with the Research Center for Rail Smart Transportation Organization from Tongji University Shanghai.

Workshop with Prof. J. Haddad, Dr. A. Kouvelas, Prof. J.C. Muñoz, Dr. M. Ramezani, and Dr. J. Casas.

Ridership is high and there’s plenty of work for drivers, but success has come at a cost to this Ontario town.

Summary of the research project Sharing is Saving from NRP Energy, the National Research Programmes 70 and 71.

Professor A. Hermann from the University of St. Gallen contradicts the study from ETH: Future traffic responds differently.

The Swiss Federal Council passed the Federal Administration Climate Package bill.

Public dissertation presentation by G. Sarlas about the spatial perspective on transport demand models.

Public dissertation presentation by H. Becker about integrated transport systems and shared mobility.

IVT-Seminar with Professor S. Le Vine from the Imperial College London about parking and land access in the context of autonomous driving and ridehailing.

IVT-Seminar with Professor A. Paez from the McMaster University in Hamilton.