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Research in the NSL

Das NSL erforscht die Transformation von Städten, Landschaften, Infrastrukturen und Mobilitätssystemen in einem inter- und transdisziplinären Rahmen. Verschiedene Ansätze werden verknüpft, um nachhaltige, resiliente und sozial gerechte Lösungen zu entwickeln. Im Fokus stehen Infrastruktur- und Verkehrsmanagement, urbane und territoriale Entwicklung, Landschaftsplanung sowie die gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen des Bauens und Wohnens.
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Baden cityscape. Copyright: zvg

How to Grow: Planning for Holistically Sustainable Land Use

Published on: 27. April 2017
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
Investigate Spatial Structure and Project Theoretical Pictures of Dynamic Planning Opportunities Background: Metropolitan areas are systems of organized complexity, highly adaptable to changing circumstances or…
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Urban Potential and Strategies in Metropolitan Regions

Published on: 27. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse | Architecture and Urban Design
This research vessel combines practical and theoretical efforts to investigate metropolitan regions and their constituent parts using analytical and design methods to analyse strategies and…
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Playgrounds - Marc Latzel

Kulturlandschaft (Cultural Landscape)

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse | Architecture and Urban Design
Everything shaped by humans is culture. This includes the territory. Cultural landscapes are created by the constant interaction of humans with nature. Their regional characteristics…
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Daily timetable matrices in passenger transport on working days in 2000: final report

Daily Travel Matrixes in Passenger Transportation

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
Knowledge of the transportation demand variation over the course of the day is an essential prerequisite for the planning and operation of traffic systems as…
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Design and Application of a Travel Survey for European Long-Distance Trips Based on an International Network of Expertise (DATELINE)

Design an Application of a Travel Survey for European Long-distance Trips Based on an International Network of Expertise

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
Within the fifth Framework Programme, the European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, has started a project on long-distance passenger mobility in co-operation with an…
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Network characteristics in Germany and Switzerland 1970-2005. Data: Traffic in numbers, 2005/2006; 1991 (Germany), 1970-1990 only Old States, 1995-2005 current German territory, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Switzerland)

Spatial Accessibility and the Dynamics of Commuter Integration in Germany and Switzerland 1970-2005

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
The central theme of this investigation is the change in structure of professional commuter patterns of travel, and their behaviour as a function of the…
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Axhausen: Valuing (travel) time

Valuing (travel) time: Models and data for activity scheduling

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
«Time is money» is a common refrain today, but it raises some questions: What is time? How much money? Self-reflection tells us that we value…
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Anonymous Data (CC0 by Clker via pixabay.com)

Models without (personal) data?

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
Travel demand models have massively increased their data demand in scope and scale, and, as a consequence, their complexity has increased substantially. At this point,…
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Generations (CC0 1.0 by hannahpirnie via pixabay.com)

Mobility Biographies

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
A Life-course Approach to Travel Behaviour and Residential Choice (D-A-CH) In recent years, the mobility biography approach has been developed to study stability and changes…
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Axhausen: Post Car World

Post-Car World

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
The goal of this project is to explore the future of mobility through the role of the car. The main originality of this research is…
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Axhausen: Pianificazione continua basata su target

Continuous Target Based Planning

Published on: 26. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Traffic and Transport Planning
An important aspect of the creation of models for traffic planning is the question of the need for movement in the model. If one uses…
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Weidmann: Previsione della durata dei guasti nel servizio ferroviario, della disposizione e della comunicazione degli eventi

Predicting the duration of disruptions of railway operation, disposition and event communication

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
Good railway systems distinguish themselves through high reliability and availability. Nevertheless, operational disruptions through internal or external influences cannot always be avoided. The goal set…
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Capacity bottlenecks Rail 2020 (red: congested routes / junctions) [UVEK 09]

Methodology for efficiency evaluations of capacity expansion for existing railway networks

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
The goal of part of this dissertation is to prove that it is methodologically possible to conduct a consistent capacity evaluation and efficiency estimation for…
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Schedule deviation

Improving Reliability in the Planning and Operation of Urban Bus Lines

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
High quality public transport systems are characterized not only by their large capacity and high operational speeds, they must also provide a reliable service. This…
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Stability of railway networks and their expansion dynamics during major disruptions

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
Background
 Numerous disruption incidents can affect the operation of public transportation systems so much that (large) parts of the network can no longer be served.…
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482 049 (SBB Cargo) with KLV train in front of Sprötze (12.09.2009). Mirko Kiefer

Increase of Productivity in Railway Freight Transportation through a Systematic Integration of Client Knowledge into Operational Planning

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
In order to survive intermodal competition, freight trains are forced to offer their clients a high level of flexibility. However, fulfilling this promise for flexibility…
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Urbanised Border Regions at ‘EU-12’ borders according to CONPASS

Local Public Transport in Cross-Border Agglomerations

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
In times when most European agglomerations are affected by congestion, local public transport is one of the most important elements to promote the development of…
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Timetable north. Copyright: SBB

Algorithms and methods for the construction of conflict-free, macroscopic timetables

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann | Transport Systems
Along with increasing globalisation, the strategic importance of transport infrastructures for society and the economy are also growing. Demands related to capacity and reliability in…
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Havana

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociology
SeDUT, a Swiss-Cuban cooperative research project on urban development in Havana, was conducted from 2004 - 2007. The Chair of Sociology at the Department of…
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141112 Diplom Urdorf

Urban Breeding Grounds

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse | Architecture and Urban Design
Urban landscapes of metropolitan regions are subjected to permanent change. This does not take place homogeneously throughout the entire territory but rather captures entire quarters…
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Image of the Temporary, Seminarweek HS12

Airports and Cities

Published on: 25. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse | Architecture and Urban Design
Airports and Cities is a research platform that brings together projects investigating the complex and multi-faceted reciprocity of urban and airport development to better understand the…
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Diener Meili: La Valle del Nilo

Nile Valley

Published on: 24. April 2017
Chair: Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
The Nile Valley covers merely 5% of Egypt’s territory, while providing a living environment for 95% of the country’s population. This thousand kilometer long and…
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Diener Meili: Belgrado

Belgrade

Published on: 24. April 2017
Chair: Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
Continuously inhabited since the Neolithic age, Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in Europe, but its development is based on frequent ruptures and breaks…
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Diener Meili: Thurgau: il progetto «zone silenziose»

Thurgau – Project for the Quiet Zones

Published on: 24. April 2017
Chair: Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
Since June 2006, a project team of ETH Studio Basel has been elaborating concrete projects for the “quiet zones” in the Canton of Thurgau on…
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Bas Princen, 2006

Casablanca

Published on: 24. April 2017
Chair: Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
Similar to Hong Kong, because of its strategic situation on the coast of the Atlantic, Casablanca is one of the oldest Global Cities. From the…
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Bas Princen, 2006

Hong Kong

Published on: 24. April 2017
Chair: Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
The Asian city of Hong Kong is a place of extraordinary economic and demographic dynamics. Formerly under British rule, it has undergone a radical change…
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Diener Meili: Florida

Florida

Published on: 24. April 2017
Chair: Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
This semester Central Florida was investigated, a territory that has changed radically in the last century; in a rela­tively short period, a multi-layered urban topography…
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Canary Islands: Open Closed

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Jacques Herzog / Prof. Pierre de Meuron | Architecture and Urban Design
Our first steps on the Canary Islands were accompanied by prejudices and doubts as to whether there would be anything interesting to see there apart…
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MetroBasel

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Jacques Herzog / Prof. Pierre de Meuron | Architecture and Urban Design
The master plan has failed. Based on a concept of the city as a sharply defined and well enclosed entity, with a strong preference for…
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Nairobi

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Jacques Herzog / Prof. Pierre de Meuron | Architecture and Urban Design
Nairobi is shaped by strong contrasts in wealth and quality of infrastructure. While some of the most affluent neighborhoods can be found in the west…
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Beirut – Damascus

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Jacques Herzog / Prof. Pierre de Meuron | Architecture and Urban Design
We can observe the cities in the Middle East at a crucial moment in time. Rich in architectural and urbanistic heritage and finding themselves at…
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Cairo

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Prof. Jacques Herzog / Prof. Pierre de Meuron | Architecture and Urban Design
Strategically located at the mouth of the Nile Delta, the region around Cairo has been continuously inhabited for the last five millennia. With Memphis, capital…
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Menendez: TERRAIN – Traffic operations on urban grid networks

TERRAIN – Traffic operations on urban grid networks

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Dr. Monica Menendez | Transport Planning and Systems
Cities across the world are starting to recover space, previously devoted to cars, for other uses. The main purpose of this project was to better…
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ZurichMFD – Study on the number and location of measurement points for an MFD perimeter control scheme

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Dr. Monica Menendez | Transport Planning and Systems
The goal of this project was to evaluate the data requirements for a possible implementation of a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) control scheme in an…
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INTERACTION –Traffic flow at uncontrolled urban intersections with different modes of traffic

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Dr. Monica Menendez | Transport Planning and Systems
Current VSS standards for the design and evaluation of uncontrolled intersections only take into account conflicts between private vehicles. Unfortunately, this limits the applicability of…
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MULTITUDE – Methods and tools for supporting the use calibration and validation of traffic simulation models (COST TU0903)

Published on: 19. April 2017
Chair: Dr. Monica Menendez | Transport Planning and Systems
The MULTITUDE is a joint research project funded by the European Union COST programme (COST Action TU0903). The main objective was to develop, implement and…
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