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13. The cost of transforming into an E-Bike City and the resulting change in safety
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsWhen thinking about a transition to an E-Bike City, two important factors are safety and construction costs. This subproject estimates the change in safety for cyclists resulting from infrastructure changes in the E-Bike City, and how much it will cost to build the infrastructure necessary for a transition to such a city. We used a machine learning model to quantify the amount of urban road space that needs to be transformed, and historical ...Book Chapter -
14. Estimating choice models for daily schedules
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsThis subproject applies the OASIS framework to estimate MATSim’s schedule scoring function parameters, aiming for behaviorally realistic microsimulations. This method uses empirical data and a two-step estimation process, involving choice set generation via Metropolis-Hastings and parameter estimation through discrete choice models. Early results from Swiss data show realistic parameters and highlight the benefit of including start time ...Book Chapter -
2. The E-Bike City as a radical shift toward zero-emission transport: Sustainable? Equitable? Desirable?
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsThis think piece discusses current barriers to the rapid decarbonization of transport and ways to overcome them. Policymakers face a set of contradictory goals, leading them to ponder only incremental measures: The need to reduce carbon emissions conflicts with accessibility improvements and the resulting induced traffic. At the same time, the prevention of urban sprawl as a means of promoting sustainable mobility is fundamentally thwarted ...Book Chapter -
1. Urban mobility reimagined: The E-Bike City vision
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsBook Chapter -
3. Effects of an E-Bike City
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsAn E-Bike City massively shifts demand away from cars, but not only to bicycles, but also mainly towards public transport. This results in a substantial reduction of CO2 emissions. At the same time, the transport system’s external effects for society become positive, instead of negative, mostly due to the use of more sustainable modes and the greater benefits of physical activity.Book Chapter -
4. Street network manipulator tool
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsThe E-Bike City concept proposes dedicating roughly 50% of road space to small vehicles like e-bikes. In dense cities like Zurich, this requires a complete reorganization of traffic networks rather than incremental changes. We present SNMan (Street Network Manipulator), a tool that automatically redesigns street networks within existing road constraints, ensuring building access, public transport operations, and a minimum supply of on-street ...Book Chapter -
11. Pedaling towards acceptance: Public preferences and cleavages in street transformation policies
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsPublic acceptance of the E-Bike City transformation divides along political and lifestyle lines. A first experiment shows left-leaning individuals and frequent cyclists are more supportive, while drivers and right-leaning respondents express fairness and intrusiveness concerns. Ancillary measures like public transport help, but mainly among the supportive. A second experiment using visualized street redesigns reveals that greenery and ...Book Chapter -
12. Mode-choice and the role of e-bikes in a sustainable mobility transition
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsTravel time increases for cars through road space reallocation is the most effective means of getting drivers out of their cars. At the same time, while attractive cycling infrastructure is imperative for making cycling attractive, e-bikes (25 km/h) and s-pedelecs (45 km/h) are more appealing to car drivers and can play a significant role in making cycling attractive for car drivers. At the same time, different car drivers have different ...Book Chapter -
8. Congestion-informed road space allocation for cars and bicycles
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsAlthough being an effective way to increase bicycle usage by enhancing users’ safety and accessibility transport policies aiming to allocate more road space to bicycles often receive strong criticism from the public because of the concern of potential traffic congestion. Therefore, we first evaluate the traffic performance of a bike lane network design using a heuristic algorithm or only based on the accessibility measurement by simulating ...Book Chapter -
10. Sustainability assessment of battery supply chains and externalities in e-bike mobility
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsIn the context of the E-Bike City, we assessed the environmental impacts of battery production and material sourcing to better understand the sustainability of electric mobility. Lithium, one of the key battery materials, shows highly variable environmental impacts depending on where and how it is produced, in most cases higher than previously estimated. These differences were integrated into updated emission factors and used to compare ...Book Chapter -
9. Network optimization and multi-target evaluation
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsA key component of the E-Bike City project is designing an optimal bike network, which is a multi-objective, combinatorial problem. We develop a mathematical optimization approach based on linear programming to balance the trade-offs between bike and car travel times, and compare our framework with methods from subproject C in chapter 7. Although this approach minimizes travel times by reallocating road space across Zurich, the resulting ...Book Chapter -
7. Reorganizing the road network for an E-Bike City
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsWe applied the SNMan tool to redesign the entire street network of Zurich according to the E-Bike City idea. The automated process reallocates road space to prioritize cycling infrastructure while preserving access by car, public transport operations, and basic on-street parking. Using real-world data and planning constraints, the proportion of cycling infrastructure increases from 12% to 54% of road space, illustrating the feasibility ...Book Chapter -
6. Multi-scale responsive public transport planning for bi-modal demand
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsMicromobility travel modes, such as e-bikes, are becoming increasingly popular. Travel demand is therefore more sensitive to people’s bi-modal travel behavior, with changes in weather conditions causing variations in travel choices. This subproject aims to redesign the transit system to provide passengers with high-quality service and save operating expenses. For demand variations that may lead to high loads and surplus capacity, it is ...Book Chapter -
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5. Street design guidelines
(2025)The E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streetsMunicipal planning authorities seeking to implement the principles of the E-Bike City can refer to this manual for standardized design guidelines. Its structure is aligned with norms issued by the Swiss Association of Road and Transport Officials, Verband der Strassen- und Verkehrsfachleute (VSS).Book Chapter -
Biochar for climate change mitigation and soil health management
(2025)Biochar Ecotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture and EnvironmentBiochar, a carbon-rich material from biomass combustion, is a key carbon-negative strategy for climate change mitigation. It enhances soil health and prevents the release of carbon and methane during plant decomposition. Biochar locks away carbon in a stable form for centuries and could remove up to 12% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. It also has the potential for large-scale use due to its low production cost and multiple benefits. ...Book Chapter -
Breeding management in commercial pig farms
(2025)Commercial Pig Farming: A Guide for Swine Production and ManagementSelection and mating systems are integral components of a breed improvement program in pigs. Various parameters like choice of traits, number of traits, and genetic parameters especially heritability of the traits have to be factored while making selection decisions in a breeding herd. Selection of breeds for mating systems, viz. pure breeding or crossbreeding is also very important. Different crossbreeding systems are in practice to ...Book Chapter -
Of Ships and Palaces Inverted Images of Europe in Crisis
(2024)SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought ~ Reimagining Europe: Thinking in CrisisBook Chapter -
Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of Its Discourse Notes on Cartesian Rationalism Reconsidered
(2024)SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought ~ Reimagining Europe: Thinking in CrisisBook Chapter -