Carrasco, Nelson

Interessen

• Reliability of Public Transport (Transit) Systems
• Public Transport quality improvement
• Transit priority measures
• Combined Mobility

Dissertation

• Reliability improvement potential of public transport systems under different urban and cultural conditions

Aktuelle Projekte

laufend

• Operational stability, capacity and safety of tramways in mixed traffic zones
• State of the art of Swiss tramways in mixed traffic zones
• Participation in COST Action TU 1103 - Operation and Safety of Tramways in Interaction with Public Space
• Organization of Congress IT13.Rail, in partnership with Systransis AG, SMA und Partner AG and OpenTrack Railway Technology Ltd
• Verkehrsqualität und Leistungsfähigkeit des strassengebundenen öffentlichen Verkehrs, VSS 2007/305

abgeschlossen

• Operational stability and reliability of urban bus routes in Zurich, Switzerland
• Participation in COST Action TU - Buses with High Levels of Service (BHLS)
• Park & Ride / Bike & Ride – Identification of parameters related to the economical viability of facilities and their influence on the potential for implementation
• Marketing in the Public Transport (State of the art) - Lecture material

Berufserfahrung

2008 -

Research assistant (and doctoral student) at the IVT, ETH Zurich

2007 - 2008

Tutorial Assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT), ETH Zurich

2005 - 2006

Sales Engineer for Latin American Market, Estrumetal, Cali, Colombia

2004 - 2005

Independent Contractor and Consultant, Cali, Colombia

2002 - 2004

Junior Engineer, Solarte & Cia, Cali, Colombia

Ausbildung

Since 2009

PhD Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2006 - 2008

MSc in Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems - Emphasis in Transport Planning and Spatial Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland

1998 - 2003

Civil Engineering Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia

1998

High School, Colegio San Juan Berchmans, Cali, Colombia

Publikationen

• Carrasco, N. (2012) Quantifying transit service reliability in Zurich - Case study of bus line 31, Transportation Research Record 2274 (1) 114-125.
• Carrasco N., O. Fink and U. Weidmann (2012) Operational stability and reliability of urban bus routes in Zurich, Switzerland, Monograph series 156, IVT, ETH Zurich, Zurich.
• Carrasco, N. (2012) Quantifying transit service reliability in Zurich, Case study of bus line 31, Paper presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. January 2012.
• Carrasco, N. (2011) Reliability improvement potential of a high quality bus transit service in Zurich, Switzerland, Paper presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. January 2011.
• Menguini G., N. Carrasco, N. Schüssler, K.W. Axhausen (2010) Route choice of cyclists in Zurich, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 44 (9) 754–765.
• Carrasco, N. (2009) Quantifying public transport reliability in Zurich, Working paper presented at the11th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, May 2011.
• Carrasco, N. (2008) Deciding where to shop: disaggregate random utility destination choice modeling of grocery shopping in canton Zurich, Master Thesis, IVT, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Lehre

Autumn Semester 2012

- Supervision of Lecture "Transport Systems", including Exercise
- Supervision of Semester Project. Title: Beförderungsgeschwindigkeiten und ihre Einflussparameter im öffentlichen Nahverkehr. Author: Nicole Jans

Spring Semester 2012

- Supervision of Master Thesis. Title: Quantifying public transport reliability and its parameters. Author: Deborah von Wartburg

Autumn Semester 2011

- Supervision of Lecture "Transport Systems", including Exercise

Spring Semester 2011

- Supervision of Master Thesis. Title: BRT Systems and Beyond - Exploring the limits of a popular and rapidly growing urban transport system. Author: David Sorg (Awarded Prix Litra 2012)

Autumn Semester 2010

- Supervision of Lecture "Transport Systems", including Exercise
- Supervision of Interdisciplinary Project for MSc program Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems
- Lecture material "Systemführung, Marketing und Qualität" Band 4.2

Spring Semester 2010

- Supervision of Master Thesis. Title: Systemplanung innerstädtischer Verkehr Stadt Luzern - Analyse und Verbesserung des Busangebots. Author: Matthias Wanner

Autumn Semester 2009

- Supervision of Lecture "Transport Systems", including Exercise
- Supervision of Interdisciplinary Project for MSc program Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems

Spring Semester 2009

- Supervision of Master Thesis. Title: Integraler Taktfahrplan und Banked-Hub Strategie - Analyse und Vergleich von Angebotsstrategien bei Bahn- und Flugverkehr. Author: Swati Singh