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Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Cities are characterised by pluralism. This fact is becoming increasingly relevant in the practice of urban governance and planning.

Interdisciplinarity as an approach to understanding the complexity of contemporary urban societies.

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

FCL Global Seminar with Dr Pieter Herthogs on planning and managing the growth of cities today and in the future.

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

What lessons do we draw from the Covid crisis as a field test for a more sustainable urban landscape in Switzerland?

Traffic situation improvement and coordination of transportation and spatial development.

STRC 2022 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference

NSL Colloquium 2022|1 on politics, planning, space, technology, design and spatial planning.

Presentations of current transport research topics at the IVT Alumni Seminar 2022.

To meet the challenges in cities related to climate change and increasing urbanization, new approaches to transforming urban space are needed.

Calum Handforth in the FCL Global Seminar on redefining a truly 'smart' city as one based on the innovation, collaboration and aspirations of its population.

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

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

NSL Colloquium about the city as a common matter. Exploration of common codes, resources and creative co-living.

In recent years technological innovations in transportation, such as automated vehicles (AVs), mobility-as-a-service, electric and connected vehicles, have been garnering attention.

STRC 2021 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.

Deepen your knowledge and improve your skills in transport planning and transport operations. Info-event with Professor Kay W. Axhausen.

MATSim has been selected to receive this year’s Zephyr Foundation award for impactful research by contributing to travel analysis improvements for the public good.

Deepen your knowledge and improve your skills in transport planning and transport operations.

Sophisticated tube systems instead of roads. That's how the future city will look like.

Professor Phil Allmendinger is going to present the 3rd edition of his Planning Theory monograph in a virtual talk.

ISTP-​​​Colloquium with Anne Graupner from 26’10 south Architects in Johannesburg, South Africa.

ISTP-​​Colloquium with Professor David Kaufmann who is Deputy Director of the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at ETH Zurich.

Green city areas are under pressure. Compact cities aim to reduce land consumption outside cities, but densification puts pressure on urban green areas.

Special urban design and versatile utilisation possibilities.

ISTP-Colloquium with Professor Christian Schmid from the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Experts' opinion by Alexander Erath (FHNW) and Kay Axhausen (IVT ETH Zurich).

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Deljana Iossifova, School of Environment, Education and Development of the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester.

ETH researchers have shown that we can use the structure of urban road networks to predict their traffic capacity.

NSL Colloquium with Professor M. Neuman from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster.

Underground railway and cycling path on the former railway tracks – a vision for the Zurich lake region.

Future Cities: Actions is an annual conference organised by the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), a programme under the Singapore-ETH Centre.

Kay Axhausen about collaboration with other disciplines, and about funding road infrastructure for autonomous cars in Switzerland.

IVT-Seminar with Professor S. Le Vine from the Imperial College London about parking and land access in the context of autonomous driving and ridehailing.

IVT-Seminar with Professor A. Paez from the McMaster University in Hamilton.

Public dissertation presentation by R. Fuhrer.

Mega trends open up new opportunities and are not without risk. They involve clever politics and foresight.

Book review of Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners.

Efficient use of all transport modes, inward urban development, alignment of transportation and residential areas.

IVT-Seminar with Professor T. Arentze from TU Eindhoven about urban development strategies.  

Colloquium with Professor H. Matsuura, Vice President of the Shoin University in Atsugi, Japan.

Masters' presentations from the Spring semester 2018.

New flats are built where they are not needed, and vice versa. This generates traffic.

Redensification and land development on the Hoenggerberg Campus.

Myra Rotermund receives the CUREM research award for her master's thesis.

Bachelors' and seminar papers from the Spring semester 2018.

Alumni seminar 2018: Current transport research topics.

In San Francisco citywide.

Professor Dr Kay W. Axhausen about today's transport systems challenges at the central conference in Lucerne.

Autonomous vehicles - Prospects and risks for spatial development

2^nd FCL Annual Conference: Exchanging knowledge between Asia and Switzerland.

Federal biodiversity policy, agriculture, spatial planning, transport and economic development.

Masters' theses Spring semester 2017.

IVT-Seminar: Public dissertation presentation.

Bachelors' and seminar projects Spring semester 2017.

Swiss transport and land-use researchers' conference.

IVT-Seminar: Public dissertation presentation.

Optimal and branched transport – State of the art and open problems.

How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl.

Implications of traffic routes on region, society and economy.

Data and technology in order to tackle the persistent problems of city living.

What will life be like living high in the sky?

Making our cities move more efficiently matters and this is why Uber wants to provide access to anonymized data from over 2 billion trips.

The exhibition shows the long-lasting path of land-use in Switzerland.

The push is on, with new laws in place, plus the authorities installing paths, ramps and connectors for two-wheelers.

The partial removal of the Inner Loop might make Rochester, New York, the city that finally breaks a ruinous mid-century mold.