CSFM Symposium 2024
The Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) Symposium 2024 took place on May 29th. The event featured a keynote by Marta González, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California. She presented her research on using mobile phone data to create models for managing demand and planning infrastructure development, understanding transport congestion, and defining urban structure and accessibility.
Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Product Owner of the Digital Twin at the Forum Virium Helsinki, shared insights on digital twins for mobility. He discussed the motivation, conceptual definition, and applications of digital twins, emphasizing data integration challenges over conventional traffic flow simulations and 3D city models.
Following the keynotes, young scientists presented their work in the poster award pitches, encouraging participation in the poster session.
A panel discussion concluded the morning session with Sara El Kabiri from the Swiss Federal Office of Spatial Planning (ARE), Patrick Bützberger, Head of Transport Planning at SBB, and the keynote speakers, moderated by Emilio Frazzoli. Patrick Bützberger briefly introduced the transport simulation activities at SBB, emphasizing the challenges and benefits of predicting mobility behaviour for transport operators. Sara El Kabiri outlined the Federal Office of Spatial Planning's role in mobility policy and sustainable development in Switzerland.
The panel addressed the importance of the transition towards sustainable transportation, emphasizing the complexity of the system and the need for collaboration among stakeholders. They stressed the necessity of dialogue and a shared vision among public administration, service providers, and society, along with practical examples and pilot projects to demonstrate viable solutions. Adequate models and data accessibility are crucial for guiding decisions, despite challenges in data sharing. Collaboration should be incentivized, and public authorities must be technologically competent and ready to act as regulators.
The afternoon session featured presentations of ongoing Mobility Initiative projects:
- Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure for Future Mobility Systems (InsideOut) by Mingjia He, Institute of Dynamics Systems and Controls (D-MAVT)
- Power and Energy for the Future Railways (RailPower) by Georgia Pierrou, Power Systems Laboratory (D-ITET), and Michael Nold, Transport Systems (D-BAUG)
- Multimodality in the Swiss New Normal (Multimodality) by Daniel Heimgartner, Transport Planning (D-BAUG)
The event concluded with a focus on the CSFM Digital Twin project, a lighthouse project of the center, highlighting current use cases by Stefan Ivanovic from the Digital Twin team, and Yanan Xin from MIE Lab at the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering, IKG, on leveraging the CSFM-Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) for evaluating machine learning model robustness in mobility prediction.
The Best Poster Award was granted to Marc Albert from the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (D-MAVT) for his poster Download Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure for Future Mobility Systems: An Inside-Out Approach (PDF, 1 MB). The jury, consisting of Marta González, Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Sara El Kabiri, and Patrick Bützberger, evaluated the candidates based on content novelty, applicability towards CSFM goals, poster design, and their three-minute pitch.
For those who missed the event or wish to revisit the presentations and posters, they are available for below. We look forward to welcoming you to future CSFM events. Enjoy browsing!
Impressions
Downloads and recordings
- Download vertical_align_bottom E. Frazzoli: Introduction (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. González: Modeling and Planning Urban Systems with Novel Data Sources (PDF, 14.2 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom J.-P. Virtanen: Digital twins for mobility - The example from Mobility Lab Helsinki (PDF, 5.6 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. He: Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure - An Inside-Out Approach (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. Nold, G. Pierrou: Results of the project Rail Power - Power and energy for the future railways (PDF, 1018 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom D. Heimgartner, A. Sallard, M. Balać, K.W. Axhausen: Multimodality in the Swiss New Normal (SNN) (PDF, 17 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom G. Romera: CSFM Digital Twin Project (PDF, 613 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom S. Ivanovic: Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) - Status of the project and first use case applications (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Y. Xin: Leferaging Digital Twins for Causal Intervention - Evaluating Machine Learning Model Robustness in Mobility Prediction (PDF, 911 KB)
Mobility Initiative (MI Projects)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. Schneider, M. Albert, G. Zardini, A. Censi, E. Frazzoli: Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure for Future Mobility Systems - An Inside-Out Approach [poster] (PDF, 1 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. Schneider, M. Albert, G. Zardini, A. Censi, E. Frazzoli: Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure for Future Mobility Systems - An Inside-Out Approach [presentation] (PDF, 437 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom H. Mehranfar, S. Chuo, S. Moghtadernejad, B. Adey: STABILITY - Improving Railway Intervention Planning through Digitalisation (PDF, 627 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom C. Moretti, B. Noll, I. Nienkerke, D. Graff, C. Bauer, T. Schmidt, A. Patt: E-mobility Versus Synfuels in Economically Developing Nations’ Road Transport (PDF, 277 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom L. Schneider, G. Grote, D. Boos: ExplainAI - Designing Explainable ML-Based Systems for Collaborative Work in the Railways (PDF, 199 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom In-SErvice diagnostics of the cateNary/panTograph and wheelset axle systems through INtELligent algorithms - SENTINEL (PDF, 860 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom G. Pierrou, G. Hug: Integrating EV Charching in Electric Railways - Uncertainty and Flexibility (PDF, 598 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. Nold, F. Corman: Results of the Project RailPower - Power and Energy for the Future Railways (PDF, 245 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom N. Savvopoulos, A. Fuchs, K. Ramachandran: INTERCHARGE - Secure Integration of the Future Swiss E-mobility Charging Infrastructure with the Electricity Grid [poster] (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom N. Savvopoulos, A. Fuchs, K. Ramachandran: INTERCHARGE - Secure Integration of the Future Swiss E-mobility Charging Infrastructure with the Electricity Grid [presentation] (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom A. Levis, F. Lichtin, E.K. Smith, T. Bernauer: Mileage Tax for Battery Electric Vehicles - First Insights on Political Feasibility (PDF, 557 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom F. Corman, T. Dubach, E. Brugger, S. Klabes, A. Dietzsch, C. Beier, J. Krähenbühl Zimmermann: LeRaBe - Learning Railways for Better Schedules (PDF, 424 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom C. von Einem, A. Cramariuc, F. Tschopp, C. Cadena, R. Siegwart: LROD - Long-range Obstacle Detection for Railway driver assistance systems (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom D. Heimgartner, A. Sallard, M. Balać, K.W. Axhausen: Multimodality in the Swiss New Normal (SNN) (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Y. An, H. Blum, B, Adey, C. Haas, M. Pollefeys: OptXR - Optimization of Maintenance Processes with Extended Reality and Digital Twins (PDF, 21.4 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. Astudillo Martínez, J. Biela: Overview of technologies feasibility for overhead line end-of-energization detection (PDF, 468 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. Wilder-Smith, V. Patil, M. Hutter: Radiance Fields for Robotic Teleoperation (PDF, 1 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom G. Arcieri, D. Häner, E. Chatzi: REASSESS - Ground Penetrating Radar for Moisture Assessment in Railway Tracks (PDF, 522 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom P. Bernhard, D. Haender, O. Frey: Detection of Railway Track Anomalies Using Interferometric Time Series of TerraSAR-X Satelilite Radar Data (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom P. Bättig, J. Bleiker, C. Sabato, A. Voordendag, P. Ruttner-Jansen, N. Meyer, D. Häner, A. Wieser: Point Cloud Based Deformation Monitoring of Railway Tracks (REASSESS) (PDF, 484 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom A. Bellè, A. Marinakis, A. Fuchs, T. Demiray, G. Hug: RESAIL - Reliable and Economic Integration of the Swiss Federal Railways to the Energy Strategy (PDF, 340 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom M. He, M. Albert, A. Censi, E. Frazzoli: Systemic View on the Strategic Interactions of Future Moblity Offers (PDF, 1 MB)
CSFM Digital Twin Project
- Download vertical_align_bottom C. Zuo, M. Balać, S. Ivanovic, S. Maennel, J. Grübel, C. Vivar Rios: Implementation of Data Visualization in the Open Digital Twin Platform [poster] (PDF, 367 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom C. Zuo, M. Balać, S. Ivanovic, S. Maennel, J. Grübel, C. Vivar Rios: Implementation of Data Visualization in the Open Digital Twin Platform [presentation] (PDF, 286 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom G. Romera, S. Meannel, C. Vivar Rios, J. Grübel, C. Zuo, S. Ivanovic, R. Franken, S. Ossey, M. Balać, Y. Xin, O. Riba-Grognuz: Open Digital Twin Platform for Research on Mobility (PDF, 347 KB)
CSFM Members and Partners
- Download vertical_align_bottom G. Castignani, N. Marius: Local Digital Twin for Electromobility (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom S. Powell, P. Thimet, C. Knoeri: Long-Term Electricity System Planning for Electric Vehicle Charging in Germany (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom A. Grisiute, N. Wiedemann, M. Raubal: Network Design and Evaluation for the E-Bike City Vision [poster] (PDF, 661 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom A. Grisiute, N. Wiedemann, M. Raubal: Network Design and Evaluation for the E-Bike City Vision [presentation] (PDF, 676 KB)
- chevron_right E. Frazzoli: Welcome and presentation of the CSFM
- chevron_right M. González: Modeling and Planning Urban Systems with Novel Data Sources
- chevron_right J.-P. Virtanen: Digital twins for mobility - The example from Mobility Lab Helsinki
- chevron_right H. Mehranfar, A. Grisiute, C. Zuo, N. Savvopoulos, M. Albert, M. He, B. Noll: Young Scientists - Poster Pitches
- chevron_right E. Frazzoli, M. González, J.P. Virtanen, S. El Kabiri, P. Bützberger: Panel discussion
- chevron_right M. He: Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure for future mobility systems
- chevron_right M. Nold, G. Pierrou: Power and energy for the future railways
- chevron_right D. Heimgartner: Multimodality in the Swiss new normal
- chevron_right G. Romera: Introduction Digital Twins
- chevron_right S. Ivanovic: CSFM Digital Twin project - Open Digital Twin Platform (ODTP) - Status of the project and first use case applications
- chevron_right Y. Xin: Leveraging Digital Twins for Causal Intervention - Evaluating Machine Learning Model Robustness in Mobility Prediction
- chevron_right E. Frazzoli: Thank you
Marta C. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Physics Research faculty in the Energy Technology Area (ETA) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
She works in the urban science space, focusing on the intersections between people within social networks and the built and natural environments. Her goal is to design urban solutions through new technologies. To that end, she has developed tools that impact transportation research and discovered novel approaches to model human mobility and the adoption of energy technologies. Statistical physics of complex systems and network science informs her scientific approach. Gonzalez’s research includes applying big data to understanding human network behavior, with applications in transportation networks, energy efficiency planning, and disease proliferation characterization.
Prior to joining Berkeley, Marta worked as an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, a member of the Operations Research Center and the Center for Advanced Urbanism. She is a member of the scientific council of technology companies such as Gran Data, PTV and the Pecan Street Project consortium.
University of California, Berkeley
College of Environmental Design
Dr. Juho-Pekka Virtanen works as a technical expert and the product owner for the Helsinki digital twin at Forum Virium Helsinki. With a background in geomatics and design, his interests include the development of novel applications for urban digital twins and combining research and innovation in their development.
Sara El Kabiri works as a senior expert in mobility policy at the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) which is responsible for the global coordination of mobility in Switzerland.
She is responsible for dossiers related to mobility of the future, active mobility and coordination between land planning and transportation.
Before that, she worked for the State of Vaud as Manager of foresight and mobility strategy, as well as in the private sector where she carried out planning studies in Switzerland and abroad.
Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)
Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
Patrick Bützberger is head of transport planning at SBB passenger's service planning department. With his group he is responsible for the application, development and maintenance of the multimodal mobility simulation framework SIMBA. While the model's main purpose is to provide forecasts and analytics for rail service, corporate financial and capacity planning, it is also being used to develop and evaluate future mobility scenarios and new technologies. Over the years, partnering with research has been key to successfully engineer and implement innovative approaches to support data-driven decision making.
Before that, Patrick has been working in various positions at SBB's passenger and infrastructure divisions, primarily focusing on mid- and long term planning of passenger and freight transport.
Emilio Frazzoli is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering and head of the Institure of Dynamic Systems and Control. Since 2023 he is also the chairman of the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility at ETH Zurich.
His main research interests lie in the general area of planning and control for mobile robotic systems, with a particular emphasis on autonomous vehicles and transportation networks and in the development of new approaches for smart urban mobility.
Head of Inst. Dynamic Systems and Control / Head of Center for Sustainable Future Mobility
Dyn. Systeme u. Regelungstechnik
Sonneggstrasse 3
8092
Zürich
Switzerland