2021

Lukas Ambühl is one step ahead with a digital city twin. Is this a game changer for transport planning?

In the meantime, our city streets are as busy as before. Professor Kay Axhausen on the mobility transition in the wrong direction.

Digital, carbonless, shared: This is how we will move in the future. Our shopping delivery will reach us by air or underground freight. Our mobility area of life is turning upside down.

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.  

As emissions from transport are still increasing in various countries, shared mobility might be one lever to shift transport away from the private car.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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

Do we need an additional transport system? Is it sustainable as advertised? Kay W. Axhausen in an interview.

It was a perfect sunny day, warm, beautiful open spaces with people everywhere - a real urbanity dream. Lukas Ballo in an interview.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Michael Pahle from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has insights on implementing CO₂ pricing in Germany and the EU.

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Professor Martin Röösli from the University of Basel.

ISTP Colloquium with Franziska Killiches from the Volkswagen Group about strategy and sustainability in supplier relations.

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.  

Scientists have investigated true-cost pricing in transportation.

How do you commute if you have to pay for every meter of road or rail yourself?

Reduce the external costs of transport in respect to health, climate, and congestion.

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Sonia I. Seneviratne on the conclusions from the latest IPCC report.

Daniel Regueiro Sánchez wins the Prix LITRA 2021 for the best master's thesis in the domain of public transport systems.

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.

Mobility is one of the big issues of the day – in the face of climate change, what is needed are sustainable, future-​proof traffic and transport systems.

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.

IVT-Seminar with Professor G. Circella from the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis.

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.

Cars are driving slower, bicycles and e-scooters are faster and faster in our cities.

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

It is a well-known issue that many roads have traffic jams during peak periods. Big data is still almost never used for traffic management.

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.