2021
Full of drive for transport
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- IVT
- Mobility
- Spatial planning
![Transcality](/en/info/news/2021/12/full-of-drive-for-transport/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1887846049.png)
Lukas Ambühl is one step ahead with a digital city twin. Is this a game changer for transport planning?
Traffic jam is back
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- IVT
- Mobility
![Welcome back, traffic jam](/en/info/news/2021/12/traffic-jam-is-back/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.380398079.png)
In the meantime, our city streets are as busy as before. Professor Kay Axhausen on the mobility transition in the wrong direction.
Air cabs and underground deliveries
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- IVT
- Mobility
![Pipistrel eVTOL Konzept](/en/info/news/2021/12/air-cabs-underground-deliveries/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1341977549.jpg)
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.
Democratizing tech giants
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Political science
- Economics
![Smartphone apps](/en/info/news/2021/12/08-democratizing-tech-giants/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1163899203.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Professor Hans Gersbach from the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich.
Digitalized public transport systems: Understanding, predicting, improving
- D-BAUG
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility
![Metro Hong Kong](/en/info/news/2021/12/06-digitalized-public-transport-systems/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1203066746.jpg)
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.
Managing spatio-environmental trade-offs of wind power deployment
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Sustainability
- Environmental sciences
![Wind turbine](/en/info/news/2021/12/01-spatio-environmental-trade-offs-wind-power-deployment/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1070043495.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Professor Paul Lehmann from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.
Assessing COVID-19 response using household electricity data
- ETH Risk Center
- SEC
- Past Events
- Energy sciences
- Electrical engineering
![Rad Pack – 80’s Theme](/en/info/news/2021/11/30-assessing-covid19-response-using-household-electricity-data/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1540115205.jpg)
ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Assistant Professor Jimmy Chih-Hsien Peng from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
Driving or scooting towards shared mobility: What’s in it for urban dwellers?
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- Mobility
![Regiomove Gestaltungshandbuch](/en/info/news/2021/11/driving-or-scooting-towards-shared-mobility/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.113246742.png)
As emissions from transport are still increasing in various countries, shared mobility might be one lever to shift transport away from the private car.
Tackling the decarbonization of transport together
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- Mobility
![Advertisement in Helsinki](/en/info/news/2021/11/rethink-mobility/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.2102555278.jpg)
The transformation of mobility can only succeed if evolutionary patterns of transport behavior are overcome.
Transalpine freight transport: Empowering the shift to rail
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![Transport emissions in the alpine region 2004-2020](/en/info/news/2021/11/transalpine-freight-transport/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.772239505.png)
The share of railway transport is on its highest level since 25 years, whereas truck trips have fallen to about 900,000 per year.
The economics of incomplete plan: On conditions, procedures and design of mission-oriented innovation policies
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Economics
- Business cycle research
![Eye](/en/info/news/2021/11/24-the-economics-of-incomplete-plan/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1428313610.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Professor Dominique Foray, Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation at EPF Lausanne.
Linking pension benefits to longevity in public and private retirement schemes
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Seminars
- Economics
- Risk research
![Life distribution channels in Europe](/en/info/news/2021/11/23-pension-benefits-longevity-retirement/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1245397772.png)
ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Professor Jorge M.V. Bravo from NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon.
Developments in Transport: Passenger transport will grow only half as fast as the population by 2050
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![Transport outlook 2050](/en/info/news/2021/11/transport-developments/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.462651711.png)
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.
Emerging diseases and pandemics
- ETH Risk Center
- External
- Past Events
- Health sciences
![Virus](/en/info/news/2021/11/16-emerging-diseases-and-pandemics/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1727841672.jpg)
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.
A pandemic? Right in the middle of climate change. What does that mean for spatial development in Switzerland? A dialogue.
- D-BAUG
- Past Events
- IVT
- D-ARCH
- Mobility
![Railway station Lucerne](/en/info/news/2021/11/11-nsl-forum/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1257998146.jpg)
NSL Forum: A dialogue between practise and higher education. Starting point is the pandemic and climate change is the background of the discussion.
Science policy advising in times of a pandemic
- External
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
![Bundeshaus Bern](/en/info/news/2021/11/10-science-policy-advising-in-times-of-a-pandemic/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1228570482.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Professor Martin Ackermann about science's interaction with policy-making and with the society during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physics-guided deep learning methods for learning structural dynamics with uncertainty
- ETH Risk Center
- SEC
- Past Events
- Engineering sciences
![Sea Cliff Bridge, Clifton, Australia](/en/info/news/2021/11/09-physics-guided-deep-learning-methods/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.464863183.jpg)
ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr. Zhilu Lai from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
How humans judge machines
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Machine learning
- Ethics
![How humans judge machines](/en/info/news/2021/11/03-how-humans-judge-machines/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.485003306.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Profesor César A. Hidalgo about applied artificial intelligence, moral and ethical aspects.
Study on commercial transport in urban areas
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- Mobility
![Segmentation of commercial transport](/en/info/news/2021/11/urban-commercial-transport/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1203780123.png)
Moving goods and people for business and official purposes is essential for a functioning economy.
Solving the train unit shunting problem using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning with routing optimization
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- Awards
- Machine learning
- Mobility
![INFORMS](/en/info/news/2021/10/train-unit-shunting-problem/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.853585815.png)
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.
Technology competition & distributed renewable energy supply
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Mobility
- Electrical engineering
- Science, Technology and Policy MSc
![Electric lorry](/en/info/news/2021/10/27-technology-competition-distributed-renewable-energy-supply/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1920675536.png)
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.
Days of future health: Digital biomarkers and beyond
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Seminars
- Data science
![Correlation maps](/en/info/news/2021/10/26-future-health-digital-biomarkers/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.402764143.jpg)
ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Filipe Barata from the Chair of Information Management at ETH Zurich.
Travel behaviour during COVID19 and the simulation of epidemics: The case of Switzerland and episim
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![Santiago, Chile](/en/info/news/2021/10/travel-behaviour-covid19-switzerland-episim/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.259190877.png)
Keynote presentation by Professor Kay W. Axhausen at the 20° Congreso Chileno de Ingenieria de Transporte (CCHIT).
Freight tunnels across Switzerland
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![Cargo sous Terrain](/en/info/news/2021/10/freight-tunnels-across-switzerland/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.499759631.jpg)
Do we need an additional transport system? Is it sustainable as advertised? Kay W. Axhausen in an interview.
A real urbanity dream
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![E-Bike Sharing](/en/info/news/2021/10/a-real-urbanity-dream/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.952529289.jpg)
It was a perfect sunny day, warm, beautiful open spaces with people everywhere - a real urbanity dream. Lukas Ballo in an interview.
What is The Problem of Solving The Climate Problem?
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Political science
- Environmental sciences
- Climate sciences
![Factory](/en/info/news/2021/10/13-what-is-the-problem-of-solving-the-climate-problem/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1723075403.jpg)
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.
Too much noise about noise? Health impact of transportation noise
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Seminars
- Mobility
![Use ear protection](/en/info/news/2021/10/12-too-much-noise-about-noise/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.600118177.png)
ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Professor Martin Röösli from the University of Basel.
Responsible raw material extraction for car manufacturing
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Sustainability
- Mobility
- Engineering sciences
![VW Beetle](/en/info/news/2021/10/06-responsible-raw-material-extraction/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1499537847.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Franziska Killiches from the Volkswagen Group about strategy and sustainability in supplier relations.
Co-opolis: The collective production of the city
- External
- Past Events
- Spatial planning
- Urban design
![The collective production of the city](/en/info/news/2021/10/05-the-collective-production-of-the-city/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1420095813.jpg)
NSL Colloquium about the city as a common matter. Exploration of common codes, resources and creative co-living.
Distributed energy resources for distribution grid resilience
- SEC
- External
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Energy sciences
- Engineering sciences
![CUBE, Consolidated Utility Base Energy System](/en/info/news/2021/10/05-distributed-energy-resources-grid-resilience/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.845613040.jpg)
ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr Jack Chin from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
The 13 billion question
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- IVT
- Mobility
![The 13 billion question](/en/info/news/2021/10/13-billion-question/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1493412856.png)
Scientists have investigated true-cost pricing in transportation.
The world's largest experiment in Switzerland – Is transport pricing really worth it?
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- IVT
- Mobility
![Kilometers travelled per day by bicycle or by foot](/en/info/news/2021/10/worldwide-largest-mobility-pricing-experiment/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.2025122855.jpg)
How do you commute if you have to pay for every meter of road or rail yourself?
Transport pricing in practice
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- IVT
- Mobility
![Urban traffic](/en/info/news/2021/10/transport-pricing-in-practice/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.283738393.png)
Reduce the external costs of transport in respect to health, climate, and congestion.
Climate extreme and unprecedented weather events
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Climate sciences
![Earth](/en/info/news/2021/09/29-climate-extreme-and-unprecedented-weather-events/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.12255259.jpg)
ISTP Colloquium with Professor Sonia I. Seneviratne on the conclusions from the latest IPCC report.
Power peaks in railway networks
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- Awards
- Computer and information technology
![Prix LITRA 2021](/en/info/news/2021/09/power-peaks-railway-networks/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1706657285.jpg)
Daniel Regueiro Sánchez wins the Prix LITRA 2021 for the best master's thesis in the domain of public transport systems.
Automation of rail freight transport
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- Mobility
- Engineering sciences
![Connecting Europe Express](/en/info/news/2021/09/rail-freight-automation/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1635979432.jpg)
Lean operating concepts, flexible processing, and enhanced deliveries.
Urban design and the technological shift in transportation
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- SEC
- External
- Mobility
- Spatial planning
- Urban design
![Economy car](/en/info/news/2021/09/urban-design-technological-shift-transportation/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.497880259.jpg)
In recent years technological innovations in transportation, such as automated vehicles (AVs), mobility-as-a-service, electric and connected vehicles, have been garnering attention.
The insurability of pandemic risks
- ETH Risk Center
- External
- Past Events
- Seminars
![Plague Inc.](/en/info/news/2021/09/21-the-insurability-of-pandemic-risks/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1395401291.jpg)
ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Anastasia Kartasheva from the University of St Gallen.
21st Swiss Transport Research Conference
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- Past Events
- Mobility
- Spatial planning
![Pilatusbahn](/en/info/news/2021/09/14-swiss-transport-research-conference/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1654872552.jpg)
STRC 2021 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.
Center for Sustainable Future Mobility
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- IVT
- Sustainability
- Mobility
- D-BAUG
- D-MAVT
![Cars on a smartphone](/en/info/news/2021/09/csfm-center-for-sustainable-future-mobility/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.455926709.jpg)
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.
Symposium: ASTRA - SVI 2021
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- Past Events
- Mobility
![Intersection in Tokio: Route 246 und Meiji Street](/en/info/news/2021/09/06-astra-svi-symposium/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.208494639.jpg)
Study programme results: Consequences of automated driving (ASTRA) and Traffic of the future (SVI)
Optimization and control in infrastructure networks
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- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility
![Network](/en/info/news/2021/09/06-opt-control-infr-nets/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1577215177.jpg)
Summer school featuring large-scale optimization and distributed control with a special focus on applications in both power and transportation systems.
Analysis of heterogeneity in travel behavior changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Los Angeles region
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility
![Highway in Los Angeles](/en/info/news/2021/09/02-analysis-of-heterogeneity-travel-behavior-changes/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1302199047.jpg)
IVT-Seminar with Professor G. Circella from the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis.
How do we design micromobility to add value to urban transportation?
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- Past Events
- Mobility
![E-Scooter](/en/info/news/2021/09/01-micromobility-as-additional-value/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.2874745.jpg)
Presentation & panel with Daniel J. Reck about (e-) bikes, (e-) scooters and other mini vehicles which serve as individual people mover.
Less traffic jams during the morning peak hours - This is how Corona has changed the traffic flow
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- Mobility
![Herd of sheep](/en/info/news/2021/08/less-congestion-in-the-morniing/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.933127961.jpg)
There is still an impact of Corona on road traffic. Less congestion during commuter traffic, for instance.
Slowly faster
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- Mobility
![Yoyogi, Shibuya, Japan](/en/info/news/2021/08/slowly-faster/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1565885890.jpg)
Cars are driving slower, bicycles and e-scooters are faster and faster in our cities.
Testing new railway technologies and simulating hairy situations
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- External
- IVT
- Mobility
![Track plan](/en/info/news/2021/08/railway-operations-lab-duebendorf-hangar/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.316321210.png)
The legendary Railway Operations Laboratory has moved to Duebendorf air base. The railway model installation will mainly serve for training and research.
Achieving better traffic management
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- IVT
- Mobility
![Zürich](/en/info/news/2021/08/achieving-better-traffic-management/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1820675768.jpg)
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.
How can emerging mobility services contribute to more sustainable urban transport?
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- Past Events
- Mobility
![Two boys riding an e-scooter](/en/info/news/2021/07/21-emerging-mobility-services-sustainable-urban-transport/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1915150744.jpg)
Latest research on emerging mobility services by Daniel Reck at the Mobility4Future Ringvorlesung hosted at TU Dresden.
Hiking, bicycling and mountain biking is becoming increasingly popular
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- Mobility
![Hiking trail in Switzerland](/en/info/news/2021/07/popular-hiking-bicycling-mountain-biking/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.224695242.jpg)
Their economic relevance has increased during recent years, too.