ENAC Seminar Series by Mr L. Ambühl
Event details
| Date | 05.02.2020 |
| Hour | 08:30 › 09:30 |
| Speaker | Mr Lukas Ambühl |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
08:30 – 09:30 – Mr Lukas Ambühl
Doctoral Student, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
From gray to green?
The interactions between emerging technology and the infrastructure of tomorrow are the focus of much current research. For example, recent algorithms describe the capacity gains from the communication among connected automated vehicles (CAVs) or with the infrastructure. Understandably, such developments are rarely put into a holistic view centered on the issues of induced demand, which is mainly driven by the generalized transportation costs. An indirect, yet essential component of the latter is infrastructure management.
While properties of urban traffic demand vary over time and space, current transportation infrastructure remains almost invariable. In other words, origins and destinations or magnitudes of the demand change throughout the day, whereas the supplied transportation infrastructure (e.g. road space, signal controls) remains more or less unvaried - except for public transport frequency.
This research presentation will first shed light on the empirical infrastructure capacity of 45 cities worldwide and connect different existing models of congestion propagation. Given that roughly 35% of the urban surface is dedicated to transportation, this presentation will also sketch smart and flexible ways on how to use transportation infrastructure. It seems out of proportion to spend substantial amounts of money and waste space in densely populated cities for a peak hour demand.
Doctoral Student, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
From gray to green?
The interactions between emerging technology and the infrastructure of tomorrow are the focus of much current research. For example, recent algorithms describe the capacity gains from the communication among connected automated vehicles (CAVs) or with the infrastructure. Understandably, such developments are rarely put into a holistic view centered on the issues of induced demand, which is mainly driven by the generalized transportation costs. An indirect, yet essential component of the latter is infrastructure management.
While properties of urban traffic demand vary over time and space, current transportation infrastructure remains almost invariable. In other words, origins and destinations or magnitudes of the demand change throughout the day, whereas the supplied transportation infrastructure (e.g. road space, signal controls) remains more or less unvaried - except for public transport frequency.
This research presentation will first shed light on the empirical infrastructure capacity of 45 cities worldwide and connect different existing models of congestion propagation. Given that roughly 35% of the urban surface is dedicated to transportation, this presentation will also sketch smart and flexible ways on how to use transportation infrastructure. It seems out of proportion to spend substantial amounts of money and waste space in densely populated cities for a peak hour demand.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Cristina Perez