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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.

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.

Cycling is an important part of the mobility transition. However, there is a lack of space for safe road usage whether on foot, by bike or in a car.

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

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Do not miss the press conference from the Swiss National Sciene Foundation of the NRP 78 Covid-19 project which is going to be available as online stream on Tuesday 14 November at 9:30.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Kay Axhausen in an interview about the E-bike City project as a future vision for mobility.

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

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.

Kay Axhausen is the head of the E-Bike City research project. The radical idea behind it: What if half of all streets belonged to cyclists?

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.

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

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

Do we simply need more space so that everyone can ride his/her bike? ETH surprises with a radical proposal. And criticism comes from an unexpected corner.

ETH is starting a visionary project for CO₂ neutral traffic in the city of Zurich. It focuses primarily on e-​bikes, bicycles and e-​scooters instead of cars.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The Canton of Zurich recently adopted the net-​zero 2040 climate protection target. Here Sibylle Wälty appeals for more 10-​minute neighbourhoods, which, by making better use of the settlement area, will reduce emissions.

Traffic situation improvement and coordination of transportation and spatial development.

The Corona pandemic had an impact on the national road network last year as well: Traffic increased again but was below the level of previous years.

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

With regard to the upcoming bank holidays it will be busy on Swiss roads network.

In the race to combat climate change, sustainable transport systems can play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. As well as focusing on the technological issues at stake, current research also investigates whether there is public acceptance for the changes.

The interview with Professor Kay Axhausen on Radio 1 during the Morgenshow.

Will traffic be handled more efficiently? Where are the limits of this new traffic trend? Alexander Genser in an interview.

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

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.

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

Increasing e-bikes accidents continue to be problematic, though.

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.

For optimal use of public and private transport infrastructures and services a better flow of information between infrastructure operators, transport companies, private providers and transport users is needed.

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.

As emissions from transport are still increasing in various countries, shared mobility might be one lever to shift transport away from the private car.

The transformation of mobility can only succeed if evolutionary patterns of transport behavior are overcome.

The share of railway transport is on its highest level since 25 years, whereas truck trips have fallen to about 900,000 per year.

Transport use will continue to grow in the future. However, it will grow more slowly than the population due to social and economic trends such as the increase in working from home, continuing urbanisation and population ageing.

Moving goods and people for business and official purposes is essential for a functioning economy.

Jacob Trepat Borecka has won the the second prize in the 2021 INFORMS Railway Application Section for his conference paper based on his Master's thesis carried out at the TU Delft.  

Keynote presentation by Professor Kay W. Axhausen at the 20° Congreso Chileno de Ingenieria de Transporte (CCHIT).

Do we need an additional transport system? Is it sustainable as advertised? Kay W. Axhausen in an interview.

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.