Mobility Initiative
The Future Mobility Research Program is a long-term research program funded by the ETH Mobility Initiative partners (AMAG, SBB and Siemens Mobility) and ETH Zurich since 2018.
Research program
The aim of the program is to bring together competences from academic and industrial research in the field of future mobility. The overarching goal is to develop solutions that address major challenges like the decarbonization, digitalization, and development of the infrastructure in the coming decades. The program is structured around annual calls over a period of ten years that support research projects at the doctoral and post-doctoral level.
Overview of funded projects
ESTRA: Efficient Safe Train Dynamics
FLEXHUB: Optimal and flexible operation of uncertain EV charging hubs
Lumos: A high-resolution, multi-scale urban land use transport interaction model for sustainable spatial and mobility planning in Switzerland
RailFreightMC: Intermodal rail freight mode choice variables for short-distance transportation in Switzerland
TariffV2G: Tariff design for efficient vehicle to grid integration
ALIGN: Aligning policies and business strategies for sustainable mobility with consumer and citizen attitudes, behavior, and policy preferences
ESYN: E-Mobility versus Synfuels in economically developing nations’ road transport
INTERCHARGE: Secure integration of the future e-mobility charging infrastructure with the electricity grid
INTRIM: Immersive NeRF-based teleoperation with robots for inspection and maintenance
LeRaBe: Learning Railways for Better schedules
ExplainAI: Designing explainable ML-based systems for collaborative work in the railways
InteractionsMobility: Systemic view on the strategic interactions of future mobility offers
MILE: Multimodal robotic last mile
OptXR: Optimization of maintenance processes with extended reality
Pythia: Forward-looking automatic detection of de-energized overhead lines
RESAIL: Reliable and economic integration of the Swiss federal railway to the energy strategy
4th call (funded projects in 2021)
EVAdopt: Incentives for Electric Vehicles Adoption
IARMO: Interactive Augmented Reality-guided Maintenance Operation
InsideOut: Autonomy-enabling Infrastructure for future mobility systems
MULTIMODALITY: Multimodality in the Swiss New Normal
SENTINEL: In-service diagnostics of the catenary/pantograph and wheelset axle systems through intelligent algorithms
SUNFUELS: Towards commercial solar thermochemical production of sustainable drop-in fuels
3rd call (funded projects in 2020)
LROD-ADAS: Long-range obstacle detection for early alert advanced driving assistance systems
RAIL: Robust machine learning for safety-critical systems
RailPower! Power and energy for the future railways
REASSESS: Early detection and assessment of railway substructure moisture problems
STABILITY: Maintaining train schedule stability and managing time table reserves
2nd call (funded projects in 2019)
EIM: Empirical use and Impact analysis of MaaS
1st call (funded projects in 2018)
FPFT: Future environmental performance of Swiss freight transport – Impacts on rail cargo competitiveness
INTERACT: Integrated intelligent railway wheel condition prediction
OMISM: On board monitoring for integrated systems understanding & management improvement in railways
PROMPT: Vision-based localization and mapping for high-precision positioning of trains with on-board sensing
