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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.

IVT Seminar with Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro from TU Delft

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

IVT Seminar with Professor Tom Reinhold from traffiQ in Frankfurt.

The bicycle was once the number one means of transportation until it was pushed to the brink of insignificance by the car. Now the bicycle is back and has more political weight than it has been for a long time.

Allocating dedicated road space to slow modes is considered an effective way toward a radical modal shift. By exploiting traffic flow theoretical knowledge, convenient models can be developed to help evaluate the influence of such a large-scale transformation on network traffic performance. Novel strategies for bi-modal urban traffic management can also be proposed to solve congestion.

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.

What would happen if we radically redistributed road space in our cities? The 'E-Bike City' project at ETH Zurich is investigating this question.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

How much are common machine learning classifiers, such as Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) better in forecasting than traditional discrete choice models?

A full day meeting will be held at KU Leuven (Belgium) in conjunction with the 10^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2022).

Will there be fully automated cars on Swiss roads by 2035?

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

Autonomous vehicles, global warming and climate mitigation, behavioural changes and new urban form under COVID-19 challenges, big data, shared mobility, IoT, public health, urban infrastructure and more.

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

Dr Michail Makridis' contribution to modelling acceleration dynamics of vehicles based on engine parameters, also considering the environmental conditions and driver behavior.

IVT - Seminar with Professor S. Hess from the University of Leeds.  

Virtually every morning and evening there is a traffic jam in Zurich. Kay Axhausen explains in an interview what could be done.

Professor Kay W. Axhausen sees the congestion hours on the rise again.

Introduction of a system-wide discussion on how AI and advanced analytics can play a role to shape the performance of transportation systems and the mobility of the future at the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD EPFL 2022).

Professor Kay Axhausen on possibilities how to face congestion problems in the Buenderland region. One obvious solution would be a congestion charge for trips to ski resorts.

Daniel Reck explains in an interview how shared e-scooters can push the mobility transition.

A study by researchers in Switzerland has challenged the claims of micromobility companies that their vehicles help reduce carbon emissions in cities.

Shared e-scooters and e-bikes are considered to be environmentally friendly. However, they are not as a new ETH study unveils.

Researchers at ETH Zurich assessed how sustainable e-scooters and e-bikes are. Their results might be unexpected for many of us.

An ETH study unveils that e-scooters and e-bikes do not support the reduction of CO₂ emissions in cities.

Electric scooters hardly replace trips made by car, instead they substitute walking paths, bicycle trips, tram and bus rides. This is shown in a study by ETH which is the first of its kind worldwide.

Shared e-scooters and e-bikes are considered to be climate-friendly. However, in a new study ETH researchers show that they do more harm than good - at least when they are rented and not owned. The study was conducted in the city of Zurich.

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

In the meantime, our city streets are as busy as before. Professor Kay Axhausen on the mobility transition in the wrong direction.

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.

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.

NSL Forum: A dialogue between practise and higher education. Starting point is the pandemic and climate change is the background of the discussion.

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

Scientists have investigated true-cost pricing in transportation.

How do you commute if you have to pay for every meter of road or rail yourself?

Reduce the external costs of transport in respect to health, climate, and congestion.

Daniel Regueiro Sánchez wins the Prix LITRA 2021 for the best master's thesis in the domain of public transport systems.

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.

Summer school featuring large-scale optimization and distributed control with a special focus on applications in both power and transportation systems.

IVT-Seminar with Professor G. Circella from the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis.

Cars are driving slower, bicycles and e-scooters are faster and faster in our cities.

The legendary Railway Operations Laboratory has moved to Duebendorf air base. The railway model installation will mainly serve for training and research.

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.

Underground or airborne?  

The trains might be better occupied thanks to the summer holidays. Nonetheless, the capacity utilisation stays low.

Reducing the speed on all roads. Kay Axhausen says that lowering the pace is not enough.

New modelling methods based on anonymised mobile phone data sets enhance current individual-​based simulations for a Swiss mobility pricing approach.

CAS Transport Engineering. Let us show you how to advance.

In just two years, shared micro-mobility services have taken off in cities across the world but how much do we really know about their usage? Interesting research has come to light.

On what basis do people decide for or against an e-scooter, a rental bike, or an e-bike?

Daniel Reck wins the 2021 ITF-Young Researcher of the Year award.