Modelling radical change: an ebike city in Zürich : CMC seminar by Kay Axhausen
Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tuesday 15th July 2025
Many currently discussed policy options would break with current conditions, which raises the issue of the trustworthiness of our forecast based on current behaviour. The talk will discuss one of these options and will report our first attempts to model their behavioural impacts. The ebikecity idea shifts 50% of the roadspace to non-motorized modes and rearranges the network accordingly. The test case is Zürich. The tool is MATSIm, and the behavioural models are based on SP and RP from the Swiss population.
Dr. K.W. Axhausen is Professor emeritus of Transport Planning at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Before he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the past 40 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, micro-simulation of travel behaviour (see www.matsim.org), accessibility, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling, social networks and travel diary data collection including also GPS tracking. His Current work focusses on the e-bike-city project (https://ebikecity.baug.ethz.ch/). He was the chair of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) and is editor-in-chief of Transportation and earlier of DISp, both ISI indexed journals. A full cv with a list of recent publications can be found at
www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/baug/ivt/ivt-dam/people/axhausen/cv-axhausen.pdf
Dr. K.W. Axhausen is Professor emeritus of Transport Planning at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Before he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the past 40 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, micro-simulation of travel behaviour (see www.matsim.org), accessibility, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling, social networks and travel diary data collection including also GPS tracking. His Current work focusses on the e-bike-city project (https://ebikecity.baug.ethz.ch/). He was the chair of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) and is editor-in-chief of Transportation and earlier of DISp, both ISI indexed journals. A full cv with a list of recent publications can be found at
www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/baug/ivt/ivt-dam/people/axhausen/cv-axhausen.pdf
