Carrasco, Nelson

ETH Zürich Nelson Carrasco Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT) HIL F 14.1 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 44 633 30 87 Fax: +41 44 633 10 57 E-Mail:

Main focus

• Reliability of Public Transport (Transit) Systems
• Public Transport quality improvement
• Transit priority measures
• Combined Mobility
• Marketing in the Public Transport industry

Current Projects

• Buses with High Levels of Service – Increasing operational stability and reliability at the operational and planning levels – COST Action TU 0603
• 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

Professional experience

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

Education

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

Publications

• 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