63 | September 2024: Ressourcen und Energie / Resources and Energy - NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft

Dear Readers,

Various forms of mobility contribute differently to resource and energy consumption. This newsletter considers topics of fairness in resource distribution and ways to reduce energy consumption while increasing efficiency. In an interview, Martina Voser describes how Switzerland can be understood as a condensed laboratory for landscape design and planning. We also introduce Eva Heinen, who addresses means of confronting congestion and over-reliance on cars. Wishing you a stimulating read!

Equity issues are the major impediment to economic demand management instruments. Addressing the fairness aspect of congestion pricing is crucial to drive real-world implementation. © ETH Zürich

Equitable Urban Traffic Management Systems with Karma Congestion Pricing

Kevin Riehl | Traffic Engineering, Michail Makridis & Anastasios Kouvelas

Most cities do not charge for driving. Do you think that is fair? It causes externalities such as noise and pollution to residents and shops. In peak-hours of congestion, valuable life time, money, and fuel are wasted. Do you think driving in the city should be priced? Do you that is fair? This might systematically exclude the poor from the streets. How can we balance these distributional conflicts?

Portrait Martina Voser. Quelle: live.nzz.ch (Bild: Marc Schwarz)

Was braucht heute die Schweizer Landschaft? Interview mit Martina Voser

Martina Voser ist seit 2021 Gastprofessorin an der ETH Zürich, Ende 2023 wurde sie zur ordentlichen Professorin für Landschaftsarchitektur berufen. Sie spricht von den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen, die der Schweizer Landschaft bevorstehen, und dass ihre Professur zusammen mit der öffentlichen Hand und der Fachwelt die nötigen Transformationsprozesse entwickeln kann.

Figure: Simplified visualization of the energy flow during a usual rail operation for a train run between points A and B (Source: Nold & Corman, 2024)

Increasing Realism in Modelling Energy Losses in Railway Vehicles

Michael Nold & Francesco Corman | Transport Systems (TS)

Energy modelling is extensive. Different detailed modelling approaches can lead to significant simulation deviations. Detailed modelling leads to additional energy savings.

“I find the entire mobility system fascinating”: An Interview with Eva Heinen

Eva Heinen is the newly appointed Professor for Transportation and Mobility Planning in the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT). In the interview, she discusses how strategies to reduce car use and address congestion affect social groups differently. Continua

Kurzmeldungen

Call for Papers: NSL Colloquium 2024: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes

Luke Harris, Johanna Just, Camila Medina Novoa, Cara Turett | Chair of Being Alive, Teresa Galí-Izard

The NSL Colloquium will take place February 26-28 2025 at ETH Zürich and publishes an open call for submissions until November 8, 2024. The colloquium will investigate the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that attempt to maintain otherwise. Continua

Cost Benefit Analysis of Cycling Infrastructure

David Zani & Bryan T. Adey | Infrastructure Management

Cost-benefit analysis is a tool frequently used in project appraisal to justify the implementation of infrastructures. Due to insufficient recorded data, the construction costs and safety benefits of urban bicycling infrastructure are difficult to estimate, weakening the appraisal and implementation of such projects. In this research, we conducted a study in Zurich to estimate construction costs and safety benefits of a city-wide cycling network, and showed that such a network has a high benefit-cost ratio (between 9 and 31).

Symbol image: Aerial view of Zurich.

Call for Papers: Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE25)

Sustainable Construction | Guillaume Habert

We are thrilled to announce the Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE25), which will be held from June 25 to 27, 2025 in Zürich. The conference topic is “Shaping Tomorrow: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment”. Releasing over 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions and consuming over 40% of primary resources, the built environment needs an urgent transformation towards climate neutrality and circularity while hosting a booming humanity in dignified conditions under climate change. Abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2024.

Image: eCargobike from carvelo, TCS Mobility Academy

NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board: Video and Manifesto now online!

Kay W. Axhausen, Verkehrsplanung | Hubert Klumpner, Architektur und Städtebau | David Kaufmann, Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik

Did you miss the NSL Forum and Cycling Research Board «Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility», on September 4th? The video link is now available on the event website! In addition, for a quick read and an overview of the workshops, you can download the «Collective Manifesto for a More than Human Design Culture».

Publikationen

This is a selection. Find a complete list in the ETH Zürich Research Collection.

Nitin Bathla, Hg.

Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies

Wie können sich Landschafts- und Stadtforschung wirksamer mit transdisziplinärem Dialog, Sinnlichkeit und Affekt sowie pluriversen Welten beschäftigen? Researching Otherwise stellt sensorische, kollaborative und restitutive methodische Werkzeuge vor, um neue Räume für die Produktion von Wissen zu schaffen. Continua

Boris Salak, Reto Spielhofer, Marcel Hunziker, Felix Kienast, Ulrike Wissen Hayek, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Erneuerbare Energien im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Ansprüche

Das Schweizer Energiesystem soll gemäss Energiestrategie 2050 massgeblich mit Photovoltaik- (PV) und Wind-energieanlagen umgestaltet werden. Jedoch beeinflussen diese Anlagen die Wahrnehmung der Landschaft durch die Bevölkerung und können zu Konflikten mit verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Interessen führen. Auch der Wald steht zunehmend in der Diskussion, einen Beitrag zur Energiewende zu leisten. Continua

disP 60/1, March 2024

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2024 is now available online at Taylor & Francis Online.

Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Georgeen Theodore (eds.)

Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities

The publication features scholarly articles and interviews from leading experts working in various fields anchored in urban design and architecture. Each piece in the volume addresses the challenges and opportunities prompted by the SDG11, and by extension, the climate crisis. As a whole, the volume illuminates and showcases novel research and design approaches to deal with issues like safety, air pollution, inequality, geopolitics, post-war planning and other key topics for cities and communities. As a result, the volume addresses not only academics, city planners, architects and urban designers, but anybody for whom these issues are relevant. Drawing largely from examples in the Global South, where various forms of scarcity give rise to inclusive and sustainable solutions for the entire world, the volume aims to meet the challenge of the multi-crises of the 21^st century through evidence-based experiences, case studies, and projects.

Further information

Gabriela Debrunner, Katrin Hofer, Michael Wicki, Fiona Kauer, David Kaufmann

Housing Precarity in Six European and North American Cities: Threatened by the Loss of a Safe, Stable, and Affordable Home

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Increasing numbers of urban dwellers face housing precarity in cities worldwide. We conceptualize housing precarity as a multidimensional phenomenon, using five different dimensions: 1) housing affordability, 2) tenure security, 3) housing satisfaction, 4) neighborhood quality, and 5) community cohesion. Continua

Figure: Simplified visualization of the energy flow during a usual rail operation for a train run between points A and B (Source: Nold & Corman, 2024)

Michael Nold, Francesco Corman

Increasing realism in modelling energy losses in railway vehicles and their impact to energy-efficient train control

The reduction of energy consumption is an increasingly important topic of the railway system. Energy-efficient train control (EETC) is one solution, which refers to mathematically computing when to accelerate, which cruising speed to hold, how long one should coast over a suitable space, and when to brake. Continua

Luke Harris

Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà

This paper proposes a methodology for designers to work in the extensive yet marginal landscapes that are produced as part of the process of agricultural intensification. Continua

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26. November, 17:15 | ETH Zürich, Hauptgebäude HG F 30 (Auditorium Maximum), Rämistrasse 101.

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La guerra contro l'Ucraina ha portato alla distruzione massiccia dell'infrastruttura energetica. Una conseguenza di ciò sono i blackout in città come Kiev. In futuro, l'energia eolica e solare potrebbe costituire la spina dorsale del sistema elettrico ucraino. (Immagine: Oleksii Maznychenko / Adobe Stock)

Come l’Ucraina può ricostruire il suo sistema energetico

I ricercatori dell’ETH, insieme a ricercatori ucraini e tedeschi, hanno studiato come l’infrastruttura energetica ucraina distrutta possa essere ricostruita con energia rinnovabile. Secondo lo studio, l’energia solare ed eolica consente un approvvigionamento rapido e decentralizzato e previene la corruzione. Leggi l’articolo su ETH News.

Redaktionsteam

Silvia Converso, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Landschaftsarchitektur
Michiel van Iersel, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Viera Klasovitá, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)
Klearjos Papanicolaou, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Noelle Paulson und Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Maarten Van Strien, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL)

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