2025

Inaugural lecture by Professor Eva Heinen

The plan for a transit fee is politically highly controversial, since this is intended to solve the Gotthard car congestion problem. Several experts see a discriminatory problem and a foreseeable escalation with the European Union.

Bernardo Martin-Iradi from the Transport Systems (TS) research group has been awarded the VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2023 at this year's EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization conference in Trento.

Kevin Riehl from the Traffic Engineering research group (SVT) lends a hand wherever he can—it's his way of giving back to nature.

The results of the ETH E-Bike City project are currently making headlines in the media. The NZZ is once again polemicizing and doubting the implementation of ecological urban redevelopment.

Public dissertation presentation by Matej Jusup from the Transport Systems (TS) research group on how safe Mean-Field Reinforcement Learning and Mean-Field Bayesian Optimization can be applied in order to control AV's on a large scale (tens of thousands of vehicles) in real-time.

ETH Zurich has developed a concept for an E-Bike City where half of Zurich's road space is to be converted into wide cycle paths and car traffic would be massively restricted.

Kay Axhausen comes from Heidelberg and has been Professor for Transport Planning at ETH Zurich since 1999. His favourite mode of transport the bicycle.

Professor Kay Axhausen sees e-bikes as the cities' only answer to climate change. The expansion of public transport has its limits.

A group of researchers led by Professor Kay Axhausen is proposing the E-Bike City project as a solution for the city of Zurich, which is hardly practicable and involves allocating half of the current road space to bicycles and scooters with and without motors.

Professor Eva Heinen's interview about personal commute and general transport choices.

Driverless taxis are driving in the USA for almost a year now. Professor Kay Axhausen explains the situation in Europe and various possible uses for autonomous vehicles.

Ride your bicycles and pass through our experiment locations to help us collect data.

A full day of MATSim will be held in conjunction with the 13^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025) in Munich.

Catherine Elliot won the Smart Pedal Pitch contest at the Velo-city Conference 2025 in Gdansk.

ETH Zurich researched how half of the transport space could be gained for bicycle-friendly urban planning for the past three years. Now, the conclusion has been drawn.

Daniel Heimgartner's public dissertation presentation

The final event of the E-Bike City project, which marks the culmination of an ambitious three-year D-BAUG lighthouse initiative, bringing together researchers from across the department.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) is working on a zeitgeist project: the E-Bike City Zurich. The global financial city is to become a global cycling city: 50 per cent of the current road space will be reserved for e-bikes, bicycles and e-scooters, and only 35 per cent for cars, which would increase the distances they travel by up to 30 per cent.

It has been recently announced that the E-Bike City project from ETH Zurich proposes to reserve half of the road space in the city of Zurich for bicycles and massively obstruct car traffic. At CHF 420,000, around a quarter of the money for the project comes from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).

Grace Kagho set up UrbanEcho to create the basis for sustainable urban planning in low-income countries. Her goal is to obtain a detailed digital twin of cities and their residents.

Experts think that the debate about electric hire scooters is obscuring a much bigger problem.

Dream of a green city or nightmare for urban transport?

ETH Zurich's E-Bike City project shows that it would be possible to convert half of Zurich's roads into cycle paths - without increasing traffic congestion.

ETH Zurich wants to rethink mobility in the city. The idea is causing a stir.

Expanding the cycling infrastructure in cities and half of the roads for cars - without additional congestion. This would be possible, according to the ETH E-Bike City project.

For some it is an important contribution, for others just a crazy idea: The project from ETH is controversial.

ETH experts spent three years researching the E-Bike City, which provides plenty of space for e-bikes, bicycles and e-scooters - without additional car congestion. How will this work and how much will it cost?

Cities can expand their bike lane networks significantly without causing additional congestion on the roads. That is the conclusion reached by the ETH research project E-Bike City. Project lead and transport researcher Kay Axhausen explains the implications for traffic, the environment and costs. 

The team from the Transport Systems (TS) group has been selected as one of three finalists in the DISPLIB 2025 Competition. This international challenge focuses on advancing methods for real-time railway dispatching by providing a benchmark set of instances to be solved within a strict ten-minute time limit. 

The Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) has been a cornerstone of multidisciplinary knowledge exchange and innovation in transportation and land use since 2001. Bringing together academics, researchers, and practitioners from Switzerland and beyond, STRC fosters collaboration and drives progress in all transportation-related fields.

Public dissertation presentation by Lukas Ballo.

IVT - Seminar with Professor Karel Martens from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).

Industry professionals share their experiences in programming and data science. Join the guest lecture with Professor James Evans (University of Chicago and visiting researcher at Google), Dr Georgios Sarlas (Swiss International Air Lines) and Dr Matteo Felder (Transcality). This is your opportunity to gain valuable insights.

Life in the visionary E-Bike City of Zurich is to be made more difficult for moto-normative citizen, who takes car driving for granted.

Professor Kay Axhausen introduced the concept of the E-Bike City during the online lecture series Mobility analysis and planning for human-scale cities hosted by the Mobility Lab at the University of Tartu.

On the 18 of May 2025, Basel will vote on the Safe Cycle Routes initiative, among other things. Lukáš Ballo, transport planner at ETH Zurich, comments on the arguments for and against the initiative.

Kevin Riehl together with his team the Gradient Descenters won the second prize in one of the most renowed AI/ML hackatons in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.  

An ambitious but essential vision: A future where research is transparent by design, rigorously reproducible, and widely reusable—accelerating innovation and improving the translation of research into practice.

Florian Fuchs won first prize for the Young Researcher Award with his paper Optimizing Periodic Stability in Railway Timetables: A Microscopic Model for Networks with a Macroscopic Comparison written together with Bernardo Martin-Iradi and Professor Francesco Corman. Additionally, the team won the 2nd Best Paper Award, too!

Katja Schimohr from the Transportation and Mobility Planning (TMP) research group explains how shared mobility, parking behaviour and preferences for multimodal travel could reduce car usage and support public transport ridership.

Global mobility giant Bolt has partnered with the technical university ETH Zurich, in order to create a Sustainable Urban Transitions Lab, which will be led by Professor Eva Heinen from the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, together with Professor Bryan Adey from the Institute of Construction & Infrastructure Management at ETH Zurich.

Despite rising population figures, the city and canton of Zurich are recording fewer accidents, injuries and serious injuries, but significantly more fatalities. Traffic expert Kevin Riehl explains these trends.

Find out more about our Master of Science in Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems and possible careers in international logistics or passenger transportation companies, regional spatial planning offices, city administrations, or at ETH Zurich itself.

Katja Schimohr has successfully passed her doctoral examination at TU Dortmund University. She will now continue her research at the Institute of Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Profesor Eva Heinen.

Professor Ulrich Weidmann reviews planned infrastructure expansion projects for all modes of transport on behalf of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC).

ETH Professor Eva Heinen in an interview with SSREI about mobility issues and current developments in transportation technologies.

IVT Seminar with Dr. Ingolf Nerlich from SBB AG, Dr. Patrick Braess from Track Management SA and Dr. Robert Wagner from SOB AG.