2023

ETH Risk Center's public Resilience Webinar with Dr Siqi Songi from the Singapore-​ETH Center.

Eva Heinen research focuses on the mobility sector, specifically on sustainable development, transport planning, spatial planning, non-motorized traffic, and health.

Professor Kay Axhausen's farewell lecture

Zurich City Council, ETH Zurich, and the bike-friendly city in an interview on Radio SRF 1.

NSL Colloquium with transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on current issues.  

Public dissertation presentation by Grace Kagho.

How could the traffic of the future look in the net-zero city of Zurich? Researchers at ETH Zurich are planning for the eventuality that current measures to reduce greenhouse gases are not sufficient.

ETH researchers are planning the future of transportation in Zurich. They want to allocate half of the roads to bicycles. This is how it could look like.

What happens when cities gear their road space primarily to the needs of cyclists and e-​bikers? ETH researchers at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) use examples from the city of Zurich to show how such an E-​Bike City might look one day.

CSFM Seminar with Josephine Leuba and Nicole Mathys from the Federal Office For Spatial Development (ARE), as well as with Thomas Heck from the Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

Public dissertation presentation by Thomas Spanninger.

IVT Seminar with Dr Steffen Blume from artifact.swiss and Professor Deb Panja from Utrecht University, co-organized by the ETH Risk Center.

IVT Seminar with Professor Konstantinos Ampountolas from the University of Thessaly, Greece.

During the last months, ETH Zurich's awareness campaign unveiled how to get around the campus and the city in a smart manner. Clarissa Livingston was there to present the D-BAUG's lighthouse project: the E-Bike City.

D-BAUG Spotlight Seminar Series with Dr Maria Laura Delle Monache from UC Berkeley.

Do not miss the press conference from the Swiss National Sciene Foundation of the NRP 78 Covid-19 project which is going to be available as online stream on Tuesday 14 November at 9:30.

Risk Center Seminar Series featuring Professor Meisam Akbarzadeh from the Isfahan University of Technology in Iran. He will talk about urban transportation systems which are prone to recurrent and non-recurrent congestions, and further he shows how to investigate patterns of congestion in real-world cities.  

On 26 October 2023, the Association of Scientific Staff invites all students, researchers and professors to the department's annual “Meet & Share” event. Doctoral students from 10 Institutes will present selected case studies to illustrate the many ways in which research at D-​BAUG helps engineer a more sustainable future. Keynotes will be given by Professors Eleni Chatzi and Max Maurer. Don't miss this exciting event and the apéro afterwards!

In homage to the architectural historian and photographer Hans-​Peter Bärtschi, we celebrate a new photo book from the ETH Library and the complete digitisation of his photographic archive.

CSFM Seminar co-​organized together with the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy featuring Bessie Noll from the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG), Dr Betsy Sandoval Guzman from the Vehicle Systems Group at Empa, Alessio Levis from the International Political Economy and Environmental Politics group (IPEEP), and Roman Rosenfellner from the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO).

ISTP Colloquium with Regina Witter from the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) where she is deputy head of agglomeration traffic.

The CSFM organizes the first technical workshop of the Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) of the Swiss Mobility System.

Using connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) as mobile actuators to perform speed coordination tasks. Read more about the real-case study in Antwerp, Belgium.

The city is realising the second bicycle priority route in Zurich Seefeld. Cyclists will largely have the right of way on a 2.5-kilometre stretch.

Sandro Tanner's master's thesis on tradable mobility credits for more climate protection wins the Prix LITRA 2023.

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Laurent Cartier from the Swiss Gemmological Institute (SSEF) about requirements on risks and transparency for mineral supply chains.

Workshop at the 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC-2023).

Calibration of car-following (CF) models is considered a very important task towards reproduction of individual vehicle behaviors and collective traffic phenomena.

Ongoing research and results of recently completed projects from various transportation disciplines.

Kay Axhausen discusses the future of mobility in Zurich: About autonomous vehicles, electric cars, road pricing, traffic jams, speed limits, public transportation, bicycles and e-bikes, scooters, pedestrians, daily commutes, delivery services, climate goals, and CO₂  emissions compared to other cities.

hEART 2023 - International forum for transportation researchers hosted at ETH Zurich.

Workshop at the 11^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation at ETH Zurich.

A full day meeting will be held at ETH Zurich in conjunction with the 11^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2023).

The CSFM is co-​organizing IEEE Digital Twin 2023 as part of the Digital Twin Workshop Series.

The Global Smart Cities Summit & the 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (GSCS & ICUI 2023) will be held in Hong Kong on 20-23 August 2023.  

Is there a possibility without cars? Interview with transportation researcher Kay Axhausen.

At zero cost, and practically zero carbon, BTR brings transportation engineers, planners, and policymakers together globally by removing the burden of travel and joining each other online.

Patrick Bösch, Felix Becker, Henrik Becker and Kay Axhausen won the Transport Policy Prize for their paper 'Cost-based analysis of autonomous mobility services' at the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR 2023) in Montréal.

All different road users hardly find space next to each other in the city, says Professor Kay Axhausen in an interview.

Professor Ulrich Weidmann developed the so-called fundamental diagram for pedestrians in a technical report titled Pedestrians' Transport Technology. Since then, platforms, subways, stairs, ramps and lifts in railway stations have been dimensioned on the basis of his diagram.

Professor Francesco Corman introduces himself and his research in a short interview by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-​BAUG).

The Federal Council proposes clear regulations as well as efficient use of transport areas. The legislation for touristic electric bicycle use should be adapted, too.

Mobility and sustainability on the Hönggerberg campus of ETH Zurich. A guided tour by Campus Services shows how the Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse is being redesigned.

They come to ETH Zurich almost daily by bike or e-​bike. Three ETH transport researchers are investigating how an e-​bike-friendly city works. They are also committed to a safe, sustainable, and CO₂-​reducing campus mobility at ETH Zurich.

TimeUse+ is a novel survey methodology to collect data on individuals’ time use, trael, and expenditure behaviour to understand these shifts.

In order to further improve the mobility infrastructure at ETH, we need your feedback. Please take part in our short survey.

The future belongs to the bicycle. But where should it go? It competes with public transport, cars and pedestrians for scarce space.

IVT - Seminar with Dr Antonio Sciarretta from IFPEN in Lyon on minimizing energy consumption for electric and non-electric vehicles.

This colloquium will not only present the preliminary results, but also actively involve the participants in shaping the research questions from the D-​BAUG lighthouse project E-​Bike City conducted by its seven research groups. With various presentations and workshops, the researchers, experts and stakeholders will deepen their research topics and methods and, wherever possible, involve them in the research process.

Symposium 2023 with Kristin Szadkowski (Volkswagen AG), Gianluca Ambrosetti (Synhelion SA), Roland Moser (SBB), Andreas Mehlhorn (Siemens Mobility) and researchers from ETH Zurich.