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Economics of car use

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Demand-based operations of vehicle sharing systems

Vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) allow users to rent vehicles for a short period of time, in a more flexible and convenient manner compared to the traditional vehicle rental services. The long-term VSS subscription replaces the need for contract signing for ...

EPFL2023

Optimization of operational decisions for on-demand shared mobility systems

Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux

This thesis introduces new operational management policies for two types of on-demand shared mobility systems, the now well-studied one-way carsharing systems and a new innovative semi-autonomous last-mile transportation system. In addition, two associated ...

EPFL2021

An optimization framework for exclusive bus lane allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Dimitrios Tsitsokas, Anastasios Kouvelas

Road space distribution among multiple modes of transport in urban networks has attracted the interest of several researchers and policy planners. Traditionally, these problems are solved by ignoring operational and dynamic characteristics of multi-modal c ...

2019

Quantified Cars: An exploration of the position of ICT start-ups vs. car manufacturers towards digital car services and sustainable business models

Gianluigi Viscusi

In the age of digital technology cars will have to exceed their former functionality as a tool for transportation to survive as status symbols. One feasible approach is to provide valuable digital services based on car sensor data which currently is used f ...

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

Comparing the effects of car-dependence on non-motorized households - a mixed method approach

Dominic Villeneuve

Les villes occidentales sont développées autour de la mobilité automobile pouvant amener une forme de dépendance automobile (Dupuy, 1999; Graham & Marvin, 2001; Newman & Kenworthy, 1989). Dans une telle société, le fait de ne pas posséder de voiture peut m ...

2016

Urbaniser les Alpes suisses

Fiona Pia

Regional planning, especially in the Alps, is high on the current news agenda in Switzer- land, more so than ever before. The skiing boom has driven massive urbanisation in mountain areas, primarily in locations at altitudes of 1400m or higher. For several ...

EPFL2016

Modeling purchases of new cars: an analysis of the 2014 French market

Michel Bierlaire, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent, Anna Fernández Antolín

This paper analyses and compares different policy scenarios as well as discusses price elasticities and willingness to pay and to accept using revealed preference data from the French new-car market in 2014 by means of a cross-nested logit (CNL) model. We ...

2016

Towards a Post-Car World. How (Not) to Experience the Future of Car Mobility

Vincent Kaufmann, Jérôme Chenal, Alexandre André Robert Rigal

In the face of the depletion of oil reserves in the near future, the considerable damages wrought by the automobile assemblage to urban life, and the threat of global warming, it is crucial to imagine a future without the car in order to preserve the quali ...

2015

Modeling car ownership and usage: a dynamic discrete-continuous choice modeling approach

Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum, Emma Frejinger

In this research we specify a dynamic discrete-continuous choice model (DDCCM) of car ownership and usage. This model embeds a discrete-continuous choice model into a dynamic programming (DP) framework. The DDCCM allows to jointly model the transaction typ ...

2013

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