In: Journal of Transport and Land Use.  Mehr Transport and urban planners increasingly deploy shape grammars especially in simulations and procedural models. The paper sheds light on the terminology and bridges the gap to the natural language context. An approach is suggested for standardized shape grammars definitions and Mehr

Paper presented at the World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR), Delft. June 2014.  Mehr The urban morphology forms the backbone of our settlements. Its quantitative description allows to compare urban layouts and to uncover their potentials and limitations. In this paper we propose a set Mehr

Paper presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2014.  PDF Despite all mitigation efforts, climate change will impact transport systems. Based on evidence from previous literature, a new comprehensive classification of the transport system aspects affected by climate change is proposed. It’s Mehr

Schlussbericht an das BABS, Bern. Zürich: IVT, ETH Zürich.  PDF Mittels eines agenten-basierten Simulationsmodells wurden die zu erwartenden Evakuationszeiten im Falle einer grossräumigen Evakuierung in Abhängigkeit verschiedener Faktoren wie Uhrzeit, Strassenverhältnissen und Grösse des evakuierten Gebietes bestimmt. Grundlage der Verhaltensmodellierung bildeten eine ausführliche Literaturrecherche, Experteninterviews sowie eine Befragung der Schweizer Mehr

PNAS. Mehr With the help of travel smart card data, we uncover daily face-to-face encounter mechanisms and structures by constructing a time-resolved in-vehicle social encounter network on public buses. We find individuals with repeated encounters are not grouped into small communities. A large, imperceptible, small-world contact network is Mehr

Paper presented at the 13th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, April 2013.  Mehr In this paper, we present a framework of a decision support system designed to analyse information provided by agent-based transport demand models, travel diary surveys and automatically collected data on transport infrastructure usage. The practical Mehr

In: disP, 48 (3) S.40-53.  Mehr Respondents to a stated adaptation survey were faced with scenarios in which their travel conditions were changed, and asked how the implied changes would affect their activity scheduling. The data was used to estimate models of adaptations, which yielded sparse reactions despite Mehr

Transportation Research Record.  Mehr In the transport modelling community, there is a growing consensus that attitudes of travellers have to be taken into account. Though it is not possible to measure attitudes directly, psychometric scales can be used as indicators. The paper presents psychometric scales for environmentalism and Mehr

In: Transportation Research A.  PDF This paper combines a macroscopic modeling of traffic congestion in urban networks with an agent-based simulator to study congestion pricing. Results show that by applying this kind of congestion pricing, the travel time saved outweighs the cost. In addition, the congestion inside cordon Mehr

Paper to be presented at the 91th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.. January 2012.  Mehr The paper elaborates on shape grammars, which describe in the form of rules how transport network elements are added to each other for network design. The impact of shape Mehr

Research Board. Washington, DC, January 2012.  PDF A recent study aimed to estimate the potential of carpooling in Switzerland. Part of this study was a survey in which the attitude of the public towards this transport option was investigated using both multi-response questions and stated preference experiments.

Paper presented at 51th ERSA Conference, Barcelona, September 2011.  PDF The paper describes the implementation work for a parcel based land use transport interaction model in the canton Zurich. The focus is on the challenges and solutions regarding data acquisition and preparation, which is an important issue regarding Mehr

BMC Infectious Diseases, 11, 115.  PDF Wie kann man (Grippe)epidemien räumlich und zeitlich detailliert modellieren, wenn räumlich hoch aufgelöste Daten zum Verkehrsverhalten zur Verfügung stehen? Auf Grundlage der MATSim-Ergebnisse wurde die Wahrscheinlichkeit berechnet, wie häufig sich Personen von Tag zu Tag treffen. Die Übereinstimmung der Modellergebnisse mit der Mehr

Paper presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington, D.C. Mehr This paper introduces a new approach for the generation of activity plans for microscopic transport simulations. It plans activities based on the expected development of need levels of the modeled people. The procedure Mehr

Forschungsbericht, vdf Hochschulverlag AG, Zürich.  Mehr Im Fokus der Arbeiten liegt zum einen die Analyse der sich aus dem Ausbau der Verkehrssysteme ergebenden Erreichbarkeitsverbesserungen von Tourismusorten und alpinen Regionen über die letzten fünf Jahrzehnte, zum anderen die Reisezielwahl der Touristen sowie deren Ansprüche an die Verkehrsinfrastruktur und die Mehr

Zürich: Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 640, IVT, ETH Zürich.  Mehr This paper describes the concept of a versatile transport simulation framework to be used for the development of integrated transport simulation models. The idea of the presented framework is to handle the complexity of modularized and parallelized software Mehr