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Three days networking opportunities for planners, architects, engineers, but also academics, policy makers, and engaged citizens to discuss the development of the city and its transport system.

A full day of MATSim will be held in conjunction with the 12^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2024) in Helsinki.

IVT Seminar with Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro from TU Delft

Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

IVT Seminar with Professor Stefan Hess from the University of Leeds.

IVT Seminar with Professor Tom Reinhold from traffiQ in Frankfurt.

IVT Seminar with Professor Greg Erhardt from the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Many aspects contribute to the further development of the technologies, but no single game changer could be identified. Developments are expected in automation; revolutionary changes are perceived as unlikely.

Public dissertation presentation by Zahra Ghandeharioun.

Interested in the railway system? Engineers give students an insight into the railway industry. Register now!

ISTP Colloquium with Dr. Brilé Anderson, from the Organisation for Economic Co-​operation and Development (OECD), Environmental Economist at Sahel and West Africa Club.

E-Bike City: A way to solve the climate problem? Ideological action? Transport policy?

The city is allowed to remove 16 white car parking spaces for a cycle path in Schwamendingen. The Administrative Court has rejected an appeal against this.

State-of-the-art approaches and future research directions

Public dissertation presentation by Tzu-Hao Yan.

Radically remodelling the road network with the so-called "E-Bike City" lighthouse project. Will it be tight for cars?

Transport planning in the OECD countries is at a challenged-stage due to the success of their car-road-systems threatening to miss their agreed climate goals. The event will discuss the potential of micro-mobility and micro-mobility friendly cities & suburbs to make a difference and to offer a way out of our current dilemma.  

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

How does one travel to work? By car? Or even by e-bike? The e-bike is an option that could become more important in the future—especially in view of the climate crisis.

Two-day seminar on design, new technologies, novel data sources, and equity for sustainable mobility systems.

Felix Zwick receives the European Friedrich-List-Prize for his dissertation.

In view of the upcoming public holidays, traffic on Swiss roads is expected to be busy again. The extended weekends over Ascension Day, Whitsun and the Feast of Corpus Christi are particularly prone to traffic jams.

Almost every second bicycle sold last year was an e-bike. And this happened not only in Switzerland.

Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference

More and more electric bikes, more and more accidents. Do we just have to accept this equation? The Netherlands shows how things can be done differently. Now, bike routes in Switzerland are to become safer as well.

Electronic booking system or mobility pricing? Professor Kay Axhausen and Professor Alexander Erath see certain advantages and certain disadvantages.

How do you get around town by car, public transport or e-bike? Who is switching to the bicycle highway? And what if 50 percent of traffic area in Zurich would belong to e-bikes and other slow modes one day? Listen to Professor Kay Axhausen and Clarissa Livingston's explanations in the report of SRF Einstein.

How far do people in Switzerland travel every day? Why do they travel? And what modes of transport do they use?

IVT - Seminar with Professor Patrick Rérat of the University of Lausanne on cycling practice, planning and politics in Switzerland.

Professor Kay Axhausen explains the state of the science and provides possible solutions in an interview.

Professor Kay Axhausen comments on the framework conditions for the future mobility.

Florian Fuchs and Johannes Brunner received for their excellent work the VSS ​Award. Congratulations!

IVT - Seminar with Professor Karel Martens, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) on new approaches towards transport planning.

Webinar with Dr Göktuğ Tenekeci and Dr Marc Semerding on the shift in travel patterns initiated by the new work from home culture in Birmingham.

Professor Kay Axhausen explains how electric vehicles might change our transport behaviour. Or how they might enable breakthroughs for new mobility concepts, too.

Professor Kay Axhausen receives the Outstanding Paper Award from the TRB Bike Committee at the 102^nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2023). Congratulations to the whole team of researchers: Adrian Meister, Matteo Felder, and Basil Schmid.

Professor Kay Axhausen comments on the deadlock on motorway A1 at Grauholz: Road charge, extension, or shifting towards public transport and human powered mobility?

Traffic congestion and major obstructions are to be expected due to holiday travel to the winter sport resorts over the Christmas holidays and New Year's Eve.

Francesco Corman has been promoted to Associate Professor of Transport Systems. Congratulations!

Will e-​bikes bring Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Switzerland? 

Christopher Tchervenkov is defending his doctoral thesis.

Mini conference: Automatisation and digitalisation basics—Timetable planning

Felix Zwick is defending his doctoral thesis.

Alexander Genser's doctoral examination. This is a hybrid event, you can join online.  

Designing anti-fragile large-scale traffic frameworks

Professor Francesco Corman about the importance of AI empowered dashboards for passenger-oriented traffic control at the workshop The Control Room of the future: AI empowered dashboards held at the University of Ghent.

The Swiss economy pays several billion francs for congested roads and trains every year. The Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) calculates time loss on the roads and the comfort costs for public transport.

Fiona Arnet and Florian Fuchs have won the Prix LITRA 2022 within the transport systems research field.

Increased multilocal work spaces and less commuting. What is the effect of the decentralization experience caused by the pandemic on a pan-European scale?

Does low-priced public transport enhance green mobility?

Technology has developed during 175 years of Swiss railroad history. In the railway operations laboratory in Duebendorf (ZH), new technology is being tested and ciritcal situations are simulated.

Time travel through the Swiss railroad history. With the help of data sets from the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems.

We are influenced by our living environment mentally and physically. Hence, how should cities and villages look like?

Small malfunctions can lead to long delays in the railway system. Artificial intelligence aims to minimise this problem.

RAIL 2050 is based on a series of studies commissioned by the Federal Office of Transport (FOT), elaborated by research companies and universities, including the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems.

Webinar on big data, GPS, and machine learning for transport research

Public dissertation presentation by Cuauhtemoc Anda from the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Center.

This ticket is quite popular—21 million have been sold so far. It is supposed to support travel during inflation and push public transport.

The mobility of the Swiss population causes damage every year, mainly to the environment and climate, but also to health.

How will our future mobility look like? Professor Kay Axhausen in the Interview for SRF School.