Geschätzte Leserinnen und Leser
Von Infrastrukturen erwarten wir, dass sie funktionieren. Oftmals übersehen wir dabei den intensiven Aufwand dahinter. Es wird darüber geforscht, wie sich die Netze in Zukunft ändern werden und wie die Gesellschaft auf unzureichende Dienste reagieren könnte. Dafür bedarf es nicht nur klassischer Ingenieure, sondern auch Architektinnen, Raumplaner, Verkehrsplanerinnen und Sozialwissenschaftler. Wir wünschen viel informatives Lesevergnügen.
Interventions must be executed on infrastructure networks in urban areas to ensure that they provide adequate levels of services. The optimal planning of these interventions requires consideration of the work of many experts to appropriately consider the spatial and temporal aspects of the networks, how the networks might be expected to change in the future, and how society might react to inadequate levels of services. Future work to enable the development of optimal intervention programs in the real world, requires research involving not only classical engineers, but also architects, spatial planers, traffic planners, and social scientists. Plus
The adoption of district energy systems in countries with access to heat sinks could reduce energy consumption for cooling buildings by 50 to 80 per cent, according to experts at the first Roundtable on Future District Energy Systems in Singapore organised by the Future Cities Laboratory. Plus
Travel demand models constitute a keystone of the economic evaluation of transport projects, facilitating in turn an informed decision making process. In the last decades, travel modelling has evolved along the lines of utilizing more disaggregate data, resulting to computationally cumbersome and conceptually complex models. However, it remains unclear to what extent such models have improved the quality of the evaluation process.
In contemporary airports, traditional notions of infrastructure are questioned. As gateways to metropolitan areas, airports attract new functions and become strategic territories. Eirini Kasioumi’s SNF-funded PhD research Evolving planning strategies in urban airport areas. Case study: the Paris airports explores how changing perceptions of the airport can create tensions or foster synergies. Plus
The Orient/east-Mediterranean corridor has a great potential in terms of strengthening sustainable transportation modes: the North and South European ports should be effectively connected through the enhancement of the railway network, thus raising the freight and passenger capacity and reducing travel times and costs. Moreover, such transnational efforts are clearly aimed at territorial cohesion – a key objective of European integration. Plus
Seit vielen Jahren schwelt in der Region zwischen dem Unterengadin, dem Oberinntal und dem Vinschgau eine utopische Idee: eine Eisenbahnverbindung zwischen Scuol, Mals und Landeck. Die bestehenden Überlegungen beruhen auf einem langen und teuren Tunnel. Das Studio Meili Vogt Conzett analysierte mit Architekturstudierenden die Möglichkeit einer oberirdischen Linienführung mit starkem Landschaftsbezug. Das Resultat wurde an der HTW Chur präsentiert und im SRF dokumentiert. Stephan Pfeiffer
«Ta-dack-ta-dack-ta-dack»: Das war einmal das Geräusch, das die Eisenbahn von sich gab, bevor die Schienen lückenlos miteinander verschweisst wurden. Temperaturbedingte Spannungen müssen heutzutage vom Gleis aufgenommen werden. In Bögen mit kleinen Radien führt dies zur «Bogenatmung». Damit diese möglichst gleichmässig ist, wird am IVT geforscht, welchen Einfluss die Rahmensteifigkeit auf das Atmungsverhalten des Gleises hat. Patrick Braess
In collaboration with the Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning Lab at the Technion in Haifa, the DesignLab (Prof. Girot) has been mapping the site of the Jordan River Powerplant at Nahayarim, built in 1932. Using advanced point cloud technology, the site was scanned to achieve a 3D model of astounding precision and aesthetic beauty that enabled ETH students in the course Scales of Power to investigate geo-political dimensions of the landscape. Prof. Christophe Girot, Ben Gitai, Ilmar Uriël Hurkxkens, Philipp Urech. Partners: Prof. Sagi Filin, Zachi Shtain and Reuma Arav.
Um den Planungsprozess von Hochspannungsleitungen zu optimieren, wurde von den Professuren PLUS und GIS gemeinsam mit Industriepartnern eine erweiterbare Web-Plattform entworfen. Diese bietet interaktive und realistische 3D-Landschaftsvisualisierungen für die Beurteilung der Auswirkungen einer neuen Hochspannungsleitung auf das Landschaftsbild und erleichtert damit den Austausch zwischen verschiedenen AkteurInnen. Publikation
Future Cities Laboratory took research to the streets at World PARK(ing) Day and ArchiFest in Singapore, where the public ‘experienced’ new street designs through virtual reality (VR). Immersed in VR, the public explored streets designed for active mobility, provided feedback to improve on these designs and on the use of VR. By using VR, researchers aim to gain insight into the potential of currently non-existent alternatives and provide evidence-based design recommendations. More
This is a selection. Find a complete list in the ETH Zürich Research Collection.
In: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 72, November 2016. S.109-129, ISSN 0968-090X. More
This paper proposes an efficient signal control algorithm under the co-existence of conventional vehicles, connected vehicles and automated vehicles. Trajectories of the automated vehicles are modified to reduce delay and stops. Simulations show that both delay and stops are reduced and the algorithm is robust to measurement errors.
In: Transportation Research Part C, Emerging Technologies 71. S.382-405. More
This paper reviews and classifies the traffic optimisation schemes of current mainline railway into two groups: improve efficiency of traffic management by providing resolutions for traffic conflicts; or improve trains’ driving behaviour by providing driver assistance or introducing train automation. Based on a comparison of these two groups, this paper proposes to combine the functions of traffic management and train automation into an integrated optimisation model.
In: Transportation Research Part C, Emerging Technologies 71. S.382-405. More
This paper reviews and classifies the traffic optimisation schemes of current mainline railway into two groups: improve efficiency of traffic management by providing resolutions for traffic conflicts; or improve trains’ driving behaviour by providing driver assistance or introducing train automation. Based on a comparison of these two groups, this paper proposes to combine the functions of traffic management and train automation into an integrated optimisation model.
Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 1177. Zürich: IVT, ETH Zürich. PDF More
Autonomous vehicles are expected to offer higher comfort of traveling at lower prices whilst increasing road capacity. Using the Swiss national transport model, this research simulates the impact of autonomous vehicles on accessibility. The results show substantial impacts favoring urban sprawl and putting a spotlight on the future role of public transportation.
Zürich: gta Verlag. Mehr
Die in diesem Buch versammelten Aufsätze wurden nicht als akademische Übungen verfasst, sondern aus einer genuinen Neugierde heraus. Immer spüren sie den Ideen hinter den Architekturen nach. Sie gehören einer Architekturgeschichte an, die über die Form hinaus Erkundungen anstellt nach Ideologien, politischen Verhältnissen, gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, wirtschaftlichen Möglichkeiten, Techniken sowie nach kulturellen Einflüssen und Referenzen.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press. More
Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in Thinking the Contemporary Landscape argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of the contemporary landscape.
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From 2008 to 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, investigated the process of urbanization taking place outside cities. Territory brings together the results of their research in six significant locations: the Nile Valley; Rome-Adria, Italy; the Florida hinterlands; the Red River Delta in Vietnam; northern Oman, and Belo Horizonte and Minas Gerais in Brazil.
Patrick Bösch, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme
Sascha Delz, Institut für Städtebau
Isabelle Fehlmann, Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur
Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Alexis Kalagas, Institut für Städtebau
Bettina Weibel, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung