News and events

CSFM Seminar dedicated to exploring different technological perspectives and the remaining scientific questions around Automatic Train Operation

This year's ETH Industry Day will take place within the Open-i framework on 21 November 2024 at the Convention Center in Zurich and will be all about innovation and networking. With a particular focus on scientific applications to industrial innovations, this is an excellent occasion for any business representative to explore ETH research topics within a wide range of disciplines. Meet the CSFM there, too!

The DACH Mobility Conference is one of the leading digitalization and mobility events in Switzerland. It brings together stakeholders and decision-makers from business, politics, administration and research for an exchange of ideas and networking. Register now!

We are happy to announce the launch of an initial inventory of datasets collected and maintained by CSFM members. The inventory with links to the data, metadata and contact person is now available on the CSFM website!

Aldo Steinfeld is Professor for Renewable Energy Carriers and a member at the ESC and CSFM at ETH Zurich. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's SolarPACES conference in Rome.

A recently concluded research project funded by the Mobility Initiative and conducted by the Chair of Infrastructure Management led by Professor Bryan Adey together with SBB experts proposed methodologies to help asset managers plan future interventions more effectively and efficiently using digital tools.  

This year’s AI+XSummit will host a dedicated session on smart mobility. The track Smart Solutions for Smart Cities will be organized by Alberto Padoan and Carlo Cenedese from the Automatic Control Laboratory group. It will count on the contributions of the CSFM Chairman Emilio Frazzoli among with other colleagues from the center. The event is organized by the ETH AI Center, ZHAW and the University of Zurich.

The Future Mobility program is a long-​​​term research program focusing on solutions that address decarbonization, digitalization and infrastructure development in the coming decades. Projects approved under this framework provide a unique opportunity for close collaboration with the Mobility Initiative industry partners which are AMAG, SBB and Siemens.

The team composed by Daniel Heimgartner, Aurore Sallard and Milos Balac from Kay W. Axhausen's chair investigated the mobility behavior in a new normal, characterized by a large population share adopting working from home.

The Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) Symposium 2024 was hosted at ETH Zurich on May 29th. The event featured interesting presentations on Mobility Initiative projects as well as keynotes from Marta González, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, and Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Product Owner of the Digital Twin at the Forum Virium Helsinki.

Our colleague and CSFM member Marco Hutter, who is also actively working on Mobility Initiative projects, has been awarded the Rössler Prize, which is the most endowed research award at ETH Zurich.

The university's executive board approved the ETH Net Zero programme that will help further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With this step, the university has officially entered a new phase of its endeavours towards net zero.

CSFM Seminar with Dr. Davide Cerruti, Dr. Ursa Bernardic and Professor Massimo Filippini from the Center for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) on latest research results along with insights from Dr. Luca Castiglioni of SFOE/BFE on policy and research, and a industry perspective from Dr. Martin Everts, Managing Director of AMAG Energy & Mobility.

The team from the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics at ETH Zurich analyzed some of the most important psychological barriers towards increasing EV adoption within the framework of the Mobitiy Initiative program. Here are the main conclusions from the stated choice randomized control trial which have been also discussed also in the last CSFM Seminar.

The Swiss Center for Automotive Research (swiss CAR) at the University of Zurich presents their new study on the Swiss automotive and automotive supply industry, followed by further presentations on and from the industry.

Interested in the railway system? Engineers give students an insight into the railway industry. Register now!

Do you have an idea for a new product, service, process, or business model that may support the decarbonization of the transport system? Then this is for you! Join the recently launched Innovation Booster New Mobility Lab. The first call for ideas has recently opened. Submit your idea and connect with this growing ecosystem of experts and potential partners.

The CSFM annual report reviews and outlines all activites and measures from last year.

The 7th call for research projects is open now. ETH Zurich researchers can submit proposals until the deadline 31 May 2023.

CSFM Seminar with Emilio Frazzoli (ETH Zurich), Stephen Milford (University of Basel), Thomas Probst (University of Freiburg), Armin Jost (FEDRO), Xilin Zhou (SwissRe) and Amin Amini (Loxo).

Information on the impact that different segments of the population have on the climate is an essential ingredient in making climate policy measures fair and acceptable to the majority.

Railway wheels are safety-critical components that significantly impact performance and they are major cost drivers for maintenance. The condition of the wheels also influences the infrastructure. Furthermore, wheel defects cause noise and vibration emissions, impacting the environment and they significantly reduce customer comfort.

The ETH Board appointed Eva Heinen, currently Full Professor at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, as Full Professor of Transportation and Mobility Planning in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.

Bridging research, education, and outreach across departments and research fields to answer the energy challenges of today and tomorrow. Join mobility related topics and events during the Energy Week 2023 at ETH Zurich and online.

CSFM Seminar with Josephine Leuba and Nicole Mathys from the Federal Office For Spatial Development (ARE), as well as with Thomas Heck from the Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

D-​BAUG Spotlight Seminar Series with Dr Maria Laura Delle Monache from UC Berkeley.

Using a new 3D printing technique, researchers from the group of André Studart, Professor of Complex Materials, and the group of Aldo Steinfeld, Professor of Renewable Energy Carriers, at ETH Zurich have developed ceramic structures with complex pore geometries to transport solar radiation more efficiently into the solar reactor’s interior.

CSFM Seminar co-​organized together with the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy featuring Bessie Noll from the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG), Dr Betsy Sandoval Guzmán from the Vehicle Systems Group at Empa, Alessio Levis from the International Political Economy and Environmental Politics group (IPEEP), and Roman Rosenfellner from the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO).

First technical workshop of the Open Digital Twin Platform of the Swiss Mobility System.

Without political measures for zero-​emission technologies, a significant proportion of heavy goods vehicles will still run on diesel in 2035. This result is shown in a new ETH Zurich study on the decarbonisation of truck traffic. The summary prepared by Christoph Elhardt for ETH News features CSFM researchers Professor Tobias Schmidt and Bessie Noll from the Energy and Technology Policy Group at ETH Zurich.

The Future Mobility program is a long-​​​term research program focusing on solutions that address decarbonization, digitalization, and infrastructure development in the coming decades. Projects approved under this framework provide a unique opportunity for close collaboration with the Mobility Initiative industry partners AMAG, SBB, and Siemens.

ETH Zurich, jointly with industrial partners Synhelion, SBB, and AMAG, recently completed a comprehensive technical, economic and environmental analysis of the solar thermochemical production of drop-in fuels.

Professor Emilio Frazzoli is the new chairperson of the center and takes over from Professor Kay Axhausen. Professor Martin Raubal will be his deputy in this role.

hEART 2023 - International forum for transportation researchers hosted at ETH Zurich

The CSFM is co-organizing IEEE Digital Twin 2023 as part of the Digital Twin Workshop Series.  

The Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) Symposium 2023 was hosted at ETH Zurich on June 6th. The event featured exciting presentations on three Mobility Initiative projects and keynotes from Volkswagen AG, Synhelion SA and SBB.

Annual call for innovative research proposals open now to leading universites. This is an opportunity for your funding and collaboration of future mobility research projects.

The ETH News for Industry feature a new video on one of our Mobility Initiative projects called SUNFUELS.

CSFM Seminar with Dr Erik Wilhelm from Kyburz Switzerland and Professor Hua Cai from Purdue University on research on e-fleets.

ETH Zurich together with SBB addressed the issue in a project funded by the ETH Mobility Initiative.

Post-doc positions on the Open Digital Twin Platform with a focus on data acquisition and data visualisation in Switzerland.

First CSFM seminar with Professor Martin Raubal from IKG ETH Zurich and Thomas Hettinger from SBB on spatial data and data analytics for sustainable mobility.

The Federal Office of Transport organized in collaboration with the CSFM last February an event to inform about Switzerland's participation in Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-​Rail).

The Mobility research programme promotes research directed towards a smart and sustainable transformation of the transport system in line with the SFOE climate targets and energy strategy.  

First workshop of the Digital Twin Workshop Series (DTWS) at PerCom'23.

The 6th call for research projects is open now. ETH Zurich researchers can submit proposals until the deadline 9 June 2023.

ETH Zurich together with SBB addressed the issue in a project funded by the ETH Mobility Initiative.