2020

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Konstantinos Boulouchos focussing on energy supply and climate change mitigation options for worldwide and national transportation systems.

Rising requirements for mobility and the environment demand new ideas, especially in regard to efficency and sustainability.

This communication is often assumed to be perfect, complete and immediate, which is hardly the case.

Interview with Professor Francesco Corman about the past and the future of railways.

The Suedostbahn advanced from being a competitor into partnering up with the SBB. This year's timetable change is even more important for the SOB and PT in Switzerland.

ISTP Colloquium with Jan Freihardt and Romain Buchs about evidence from online survey experiments exploring the effects of framing in disaster risk communication.

The symposium will feature achievements and potential impact of research conducted at the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) in Singapore.

Professor Kay Axhausen about the lockdown and what is left from traffic behaviour.

How can urban design steer the impacts of technological disruptions in the transport sector?

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

ISTP-​Colloquium with Professor Ulrik Brandes, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich.

It is only a pilot scheme for 18 months, however, this on demand bus service by VBZ could change public transportation in Zurich in an essential manner.

Pikmi is Zurich's first on demand service for public transportation. The minibuses are available every evening for standard public transportation fees.

Interview with Joseph Molloy about mobility regulations and changes during the first and the second wave.

Open access publication by B. Büchel, T. Spanninger and F. Corman.

Professor Kay Axhausen about the mobility behaviour and the increasing infection rates in Switzerland in an interview with SRF Tagesschau.

How has our mobility been influenced by the Corona crisis? And what can be learned from it in terms of sustainable mobility? Online table talk with Professor Kay Axhausen.

ISTP-Colloquium with Professor Robert Finger, Agricultural Economics and Policy at the ETH Zurich.

Swiss, Indian and Singaporean perspectives on urban planning, transportation policy and electric mobility. Panel with Professor Kay Axhausen.

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.

Dr. Yi Wang from the Singapore-​ETH Centre in the lunch talk at the Risk Center Seminar Series.

Railways move passengers comfortably, safely and with minimal space requirements. They connect metropolises, they carry freight over long distances and use little energy.

ISTP-​Colloquium with Professor Marco Mazzotti from the Institute of Process Engineering at ETH Zurich.

SVT members together with Kaidi Yang and Monica Menendez have won the ITSC Best Student Paper Award at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

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

The Federal Office for Transport (FOT) supports public transportation as a mean for energy saving and CO2 reduction.

Michael Maness (University of South Florida) about insights from social capital measures to build more socially and behaviorally realistic models in the CMC Online Seminar Series.

Akshay Vij (University of South Australia) about the dynamics of preference change in the CMC Online Seminar Series.

Special urban design and versatile utilisation possibilities.

Kay Axhausen explains how transportation systems may be adjusted for the future with 10 million inhabitants in Switzerland.

Abdul R. Pinjari from the Indian Institute of Science examines the use of the integrated choice and latent variable (ICLV) framework in the CMC Online Seminar Series.

IVT ETH Zurich and CITIES at NYU Abu Dhabi have gathered urban traffic data from over 40 cities worldwide. 5 billion vehicles were detected covering a combined time span of 3.8 years.

Emma Frejinger (Université de Montréal) on background on so-called recursive route choice models in the CMC Online Seminar Series.

Road and rail cargo trips have been reduced by 12%. However, 71% of all freight transport is still done by rail.

Companies are trying to guide their employees' mobility behaviour by operational mobility management.

Private transport is likely to reach its limit in Switzerland. Professor Kay Axhausen sees an increased amount of traffic congestions this Autumn.

Abisai Konstantinus (CEO, Ndatara) about the suitability of choice modeling for maritime transport development in Africa in the CMC Online Seminar Series.

Julian Arellana from the University Del Norte about benefits and drawbacks of using Virtual Reality (VR) for choice experiments in the CMS Online Seminar Series.  

City planner ask themselves if the Corona pandemic could be the exodus of megacites. This seems not to be the case in Zurich, though.

Current research at ETH Zurich and Basel University is dealing with mobility changes during the Corona pandemic, and with cycling issues, too.

John Buckell (University of Oxford) with David Hensher and Stephane Hess in the CMC Online Seminar Series.

Olga Fink develops artificial intelligence algorithms for industrial assets, rolling stock and power plants.

Will E-​Scooters and E-​Bikes be part of publication transportation soon? ZVV is testing the project called «Yumuv». Professor Kay Axhausen in an interview.

Bilal Farooq from Ryerson University talks about large-scale discrete-continuous (MDC) choice data.

Emerging Mobility Systems and Services Seminar Series with Professor Hai Yang from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

3 Revolutions Policy Webinar Series with Giovanni Circella, Dan Sperling, Lisa Snap, and Mollie Cohen D'Agostino discussing implications for the climate and for communities.

Local bicycle mechanics are working at full capacity. Will the bicycles shape our future traffic or not?

Kay W. Axhausen's webinar in the Emerging Mobility Systems and Services Seminar Series.

The Corona crisis has achieved what transport planners have tried for decades: People are changing their mobility behaviour.