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Transport and Mobility Laboratory: Research projects
Transportation
We identify new solutions to transportation problems, on the ground, in the air, or on the sea, transport of people or goods, whatever the mode. We focus on technical solutions, but also on their impact on the system as a whole. We are also interested in the interactions of the transportation systems with the land use, the economy, the environment, etc.
E-Bike City
This project has the following content: Transport policy is currently not finding a way out of its dilemma; the imminent need to decarbonize a sector fast which has barely moved in the recent past and the social requirement to maintain and increase accessibility across all modes, but not to encourage sprawl while still allowing further decreases in the generalised cost of travel by new technologies and business models. We propose to use a radical departure from previous proposed ideas to enable the policy and transport industry to begin thinking from a different starting point. The design idea is to reallocate 50% of the existing urban road space to e-bikes, bicycles, and other micromobility modes and to assess what this change could achieve in terms of accessibility, generalised costs of travel, changes in daily life and reductions in emissions and CO2. The project will integrate careful involvement of the various stakeholders from citizens, cities, firms to interest groups, but will also provide the materials needed to communicate the ideas and their equity impacts visually and verbally at the required levels of complexity.
- Principal investigator
- Michel Bierlaire
- Project manager
- Janody Pougala
- Sponsor
- Swiss Federal Office of Energy
- Period
- September 01, 2022-December 31, 2025
- External collaboration
- Prof. Axhausen (IVT - ETHZ)
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Expertise
- Transportation Research
- Operations Research
- Discrete Choice Models
Methods
Modeling, optimization, simulation
Research themes
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