Published by the Network Design Lab. Information Nothing in cities makes sense except in the light of accessibility. Transport cannot be understood without reference to the location of activities (land use), and vice versa. However, for a variety of historical reasons, transport and land use are quite divorced More
Professur für Raumentwicklung. Im vdf Verlag auch als E-Book erhältlich. Eine wichtige Erkenntnis ist, dass in den rechtskräftigen Bauzonen weiterhin Nutzungsreserven für 1,0 bis 1,8 Millionen zusätzliche Einwohner bestehen. Die Studie belegt, dass weiterhin Nutzungsreserven und vielfältige Möglichkeiten für die Innenentwicklung vorhanden sind, aber nur teilweise systematisch erfasst werden. More
Bezugsquelle: ETH Zürich, Redaktion disP, NSL Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft, HIL H 33.2, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich «Die Schweiz plant» eröffnet anhand ausgewählter Archivquellen neue Einblicke in den langen und steinigen Weg der Raumplanung in der Schweiz. Von den ersten Ideen bis zur Institutionalisierung bringt die Publikation der Fachwelt wie auch der interessierten Öffentlichkeit More
The platooning of trucks has been considered in many studies as a potential approach to reduce some of the negative effects caused by trucking on the highways. A platoon of trucks is formed by decreasing the spacing between the trucks and adjusting their speeds at the same time. More
In urban environments, where buses and cars operate in mixed fashion, bus delays can be exacerbated at signalized intersections due to the interactions with cars. This research will investigate the use of additional signals to provide priority to buses at signalized intersections, while minimizing the negative effects to More
In the last decades, cities around the world have started to reduce speed limits in both residential areas and city centers. In Switzerland, for example, more than 700 districts and municipalities have streets and areas with 30 km/h regulations, and there have been initiatives to extend those to More
To understand the physics of urban mobility, traffic dynamics of multimodal urban networks need to be analyzed under many different scenarios, including various network properties. To this end, an aggregated model for multimodal systems, following the concept of the three-dimensional bi-modal macroscopic fundamental diagram (3D-MFD), can be used More
The development in connected and automated vehicles provides more flexibility in the monitoring and control of traffic systems. Equipped with communication systems and various sensors, connected and automated vehicles can communicate with the infrastructure to report real-time information, such as location, speed, etc. Moreover, the automated driving system More
Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d Programme) Introduction MANAGING TELECOUPLED LANDSCAPES aims at exploring concrete pathways for sustainable livelihoods in forest frontier landscapes and explores how transdisciplinary learning among multiple stakeholders opens up pathways to adaptive governance of telecoupled social-ecological systems. Motivation The debate More
Introduction Along with air and water, soil is one of the most important life-supporting elements for humans: it provides numerous benefits through ecosystem services (ES), ranging from food provision over regulation of surface runoff to drug research and development, and has been cultivated over centuries. As such, it More
Assessing future impacts of climate change and the decarbonisation of the mobility and energy sector on outdoor recreation in Switzerland Introduction Anticipated population growth, rapid technological development in transportation, climatic change and the transition to domestic renewable energy production in Switzerland are expected to modify the patterns of More
Introduction Mountain social-ecological systems (SES) contribute critically to ecosystem services at local, regional and global scales. Yet, they are highly vulnerable to climate, political and socio-economic changes, which compound with natural climate harshness, variability and natural risks. Therefore, co-designing future adaptation pathways with mountain stakeholders towards sustainability is More
Introduction A fundamental reason for the insufficient implementation of agricultural plans is the lack of acceptance and cooperation by the actors involved. For experts, planning content is usually in the foreground; communication mainly serves to add factual and specialised information. However, past planning results show that making specialised More
Introduction Ecosystem services are provided in tropical cities like Singapore but to understand how, we must categorise different urban typologies in a systematic, data-driven way. Given the high heterogeneity of land cover in cities and the level of detail present in newly available satellite data and new surveying More
The aim of the ENERGYSCAPE project is to work out recommendations that will be used as a foundation for a landscape strategy that has a mix of renewable energy systems. This includes a close cooperation with partners in the areas of environmental and energy research and practice. In More
Coupling human and ecological networks for sustainable landscape and transport planning Main content Human networks, consisting of settlements and roads, are often a threat to the integrity of ecological networks, in which natural habitats are connected with one another. Well-connected ecological networks are necessary to ensure biodiversity and More
23. und 24. August 2018 in der Messe Luzern | 23 et 24 août à Lucerne. Wie sieht die Schweiz von morgen aus? Welche Landschaften wünschen wir uns und was sind sie uns wert? Wie prägen Megatrends und Veränderungen in unserem persönlichen Verhalten die künftige Landschaft? Wer sind die zentralen More
Kleine und mittlere Gemeinden besitzen einen Grossteil der Siedlungsreserven, aber oft zu wenig Ressourcen und Know-how, um diese «im Innern» nutzbar zu machen. Gute Siedlungsentwicklung braucht ein Zukunftsbild und eine Strategie. Das Lernen von Beispielen kann dabei hilfreich sein. Artikel auf dem ETH Zukunftsblog von Prof. Bernd Scholl.
Ein Text zum Jubiläum von Prof. em. Martin Lendi Vom 1. bis 3. Oktober 1942 fand an der ETH Zürich – unter dem Vorsitz von Präsident Prof. Dr. Arthur Rohn – eine grosse Tagung zur Landesplanung statt. 33 Referenten, davon 19 ETH-Professoren, widmeten sich mitten während des Krieges More
Unter dem Brennglas des Future Cities Lab (FCL) in Singapur werden Probleme greifbar, die gemässigte Zonen wie die Schweiz erst in Zukunft beschäftigen. Das eröffne Chancen, Herausforderungen für Ballungsräume mit fundiertem Wissen anzugehen, meinen Peter Edwards, bisheriger Direktor des ETH-Hubs in Asien, und Gerhard Schmitt, der dessen Leitung More
Umgebungsgeräusche können dazu beitragen, sich in simulierte Landschaftsszenen besser hineinzuversetzen. Während üblicherweise Umgebungsgeräusche für einen bestimmten Ort aufbereitet werden, ist hier die Frage, welche Umweltgeräusche für einen Landschaftstyp stimmig sind. In einer aktuellen Studie wird deshalb eine Kombination von Hintergrundgeräuschen und sogenannten Soundmarks getestet.
Anthropogene Netzwerke, bestehend aus Siedlungen und Strassen, sind oft eine Bedrohung für ökologische Netzwerke. Um dafür zu sorgen, dass die Siedlungsentwickelung und die Zunahme des Verkehrs möglichst wenig negative Einflüsse auf die Biodiversität haben, sollen die Bedürfnisse zwischen anthropogenen und ökologischen Netzwerken untersucht und daraus Empfehlungen für die More
In: Transportation Cruising-for-parking is a common phenomenon in urban areas worldwide. Properly understanding and mitigating cruising can reduce travel times, alleviate traffic congestion, and improve the local environment. In this paper, we present a case study of the city of Zurich, using a macroscopic model to analyze the current More
In: Transportation Research Part B, Vol. 104, 638-666. Doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2017.05.008 Reducing delays in high speed railways requires searching for efficient traffic management actions (dynamic speed updates, changing train sequence) with feasible speeds and headways, under the given signaling/safety system. We use an alternative graph model in a commercial MILP More
Paper presented at the 6th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2017), Haifa, September 2017. In the present paper a modeling approach to address the issue of mean speed prediction on a large scale network is presented. Methodologically, we exploit the family of spatial More
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In: Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics. S.1-21. Mehr This paper studies traffic behaviour on one-way, two-way and two-way streets with prohibited left turns using three different methods; analytical formulations, static traffic assignment and microsimulation. While two-way networks result in shorter routes, one-way networks increase intersection throughput. Two-way networks without left More
Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 1270. Zurich: IVT, ETH Zurich. Mehr For the city of Zurich a fleet of autonomous taxis is simulated and controlled by different dispatching and rebalancing algorithms. The operation scheme with rebalancing is able to minimize waiting times of the service. Although a considerable amount of empty More
The Mobility Research Incubator is a transdisciplinary project that brings together researchers from transport planning, social and political sciences, energy systems, and spatial planning at ETH Zürich. As of March 2017, researchers from PLUS investigate the impact of future mobility, anthropogenic climate change and changes in natural climatic More
The MtnPATHS (Pathways for global change adaptation of mountain socio-ecological systems) project kicked off in January 2017, led by Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey (PLUS, IRL) and Sandra Lavorel (Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Université Grenoble Alpes). MtnPATHS aims to develop adaptation pathways to achieve specific development visions in two mountain More
Expertinnen und Experten aus Wissenschaft, Architektur, Politik und Wirtschaft diskutieren am 21. Oktober über aktuelle und zukünftige Fragestellungen und Herausforderungen im Umgang mit der Ressource Wasser mit geografischem Fokus auf den alpinen Raum. Bei Interesse kann am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2017 eine eintägige Exkursion in das Morteratschgebiet besucht werden. Weitere Informationen und Programm. Anmeldungen an Claudia Gebert.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman is continuing the research direction in transport system at the post left vacant by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann, who is now Vice President of Human Resources and Infrastructure of the ETH Zurich. The Italian born travel aficionado will direct research towards improving transport systems operations based More
Siedlungsausdehnungen orientieren sich sehr stark an bereits bestehenden Siedlungsmustern. Die Fortschreibung vergangener Muster gefährdet aber fruchtbare Böden, da sich diese historisch bedingt in der Nähe bestehender Siedlungen befinden. Um fruchtbare Böden zu schützen, gilt es neue Muster in der Siedlungsausdehnung zu initiieren, unter Einbezug von Daten zur landwirtschaftlichen More
The increasing competitiveness amongst transport modes has recently lead rail operators to start collecting microscopic data on energy consumptions. Main aim is to analyze and optimize energy efficiency during operation. It is an incredible opportunity for researchers to access to a huge amount of data for the development More
Kleine und mittlere Gemeinden besitzen einen Grossteil der Siedlungsreserven, aber oft zu wenig Ressourcen und Know-how, um diese «im Innern» nutzbar zu machen. Gute Siedlungsentwicklung braucht ein Zukunftsbild und eine Strategie. Das Lernen von Beispielen kann dabei hilfreich sein. Artikel auf dem ETH Zukunftsblog von Prof. Bernd Scholl.