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A systems perspective on sufficiency, wellbeing, and transition in the Swiss habitat

The Swiss habitat – buildings and related mobility – is facing multiple wicked problems that can only be solved together, such as excessive energy and climate impact, high material use with low circularity, accelerating urban sprawl and ecosystem destructi ...

2023

(Un)clear boundaries between TD practices and professional consultancy – the case of the TD research project Co-Creating Mobility Hubs

Integrated site developments and mobility solutions contribute to the careful use of scarce land resources and create livable urban space. Specifically, the future development of railway stations into intermodal mobility hubs could improve the interface be ...

2021

Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l'horizon 2050

Judith Elisa Drouilles

Since the Industrial Revolution, urban spaces have undergone a profound reorganisation in parallel with a transformation of society and lifestyles. Urban sprawl has become widespread in Switzerland, as in countless countries, due to continuous innovations ...

EPFL2019

A spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities for environmental planning The case of Port au Prince Haiti, Seventh International Conference on Advances in Applied Science and Environmental Technology - ASET 2017

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

We report a novel method for the spatial analysis of informal transport activities for future environmental planning. It uses a combination of spatial data gathered with GPS devices and semi-formal interviews. We show that the current configuration of the ...

2017

A spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities for environmental planning – the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

2017

Living Without a Car

Dominic Villeneuve

This research explores the links between social exclusion, car dependence and public policies for members of non-motorized households who are potentially socially excluded. It is at the crossroads of urban sociology, public policy and transport geography. ...

EPFL2017

L'espace public à Bogotá

Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

There is a link between phenomena covered by the umbrella term «urban mobility» and the wealth of social and spatial dynamics active in de-structuring the city as a coherent spatial model, a process known as «urban fragmentation». It is therefore reasonabl ...

EPFL2015

A Dynamic Network Approach for Multimodal Urban Mobility

Nan Zheng

Recent advances in traffic flow theory at the network level, namely the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD), reveals the existence of well-defined laws of congestion dynamics at aggregated levels. The same knowledge for multimodal networks however is lim ...

EPFL2014

Athens Lessons

This book presents the work of Prof. Gugger’s lapa studio (EPFL) in collaboration with Prof. Kourkoulas’ studio (NTUA) on urban issues in contemporary Athens. The study was undertaken in 2010 / 2011 when Greece in general faced the beginning of an importan ...

EPFL2011

Mobility and social exclusion : the need of a comprehensive research approach

Hanja-Niriana Maksim, Regina Witter

In recent years, issues of social inequality and social exclusion in mobility and transport have gained increasing attention, both in empirical research and in policymaking and transport development. While some European countries (such as Great Britain, th ...

Éditions Alphil – Presses universitaires suisses2011

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