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Mapping the charging demand for electric vehicles in 2050 from mobility habits

Christophe Ballif, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Nicolas Würsch

This paper proposes a method to spatially model and compare charging needs on the European scale considering local disparities in population density, distance to city centres, car ownership and mobility habits. Mobility habits are modelled across Europe in ...

2024

Intensification of sub-daily rainfall extremes in a low-rise urban area

Gabriele Manoli

Short-duration extreme rainfall events are the main trigger of flash and pluvial floods in cities. Depending on the local climate zone and urban fabric that affect meteorological variables such as air temperature, humidity, and aerosol concentration, the b ...

2022

Residential density classification for sustainable housing development using a machine learning approach

Dan Assouline, Alina Ursula Rosa Walch, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Using Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for classification of the existing residential neighbourhoods and their spatial characteristics (e.g. density) so as to provide plausible scenarios for designing future sustainable housing is a novel application. Here ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

La fragmentation de l’espace urbain postsocialiste en Albanie

Alain Nicolas Jarne

After 30 years of controlled and decentralized urban development, the Albanian urban space has gone through a brutal transition. At the fall of the regime in 1991, the network of small and medium-sized cities set up during communism initially survived, at ...

2019

Intermediate Cities

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...

Wiley2019

Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities

Barbara Franziska Weilenmann

In Switzerland, as elsewhere, over the past decades, urban areas have spread outwards â consuming the surrounding countryside in the process. The result has been an urban growth associated with negative effects such as the loss of cultivated land. Sprawl ...

EPFL2019

Interactive optimization for supporting multicriteria decisions in urban and energy system planning

Sébastien Cajot

Climate change and growing urban populations are increasingly putting pressure on cities to reduce their carbon emissions and transition towards efficient and renewable energy systems. This challenges in particular urban planners, who are expected to integ ...

EPFL2018

Towards a sustainable renewal of peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses in Switzerland

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Resulting from the society shift of the post-war period, urban growth and urban sprawl of infrastructure and settlements of individual housing are today at the centre of public policies’ focus, in particular due to their widely criticized environmental imp ...

2017

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey, Suren Erkman

The Symbiotic Districts research project examines dimensions influencing energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood scale by integrating parameters related to buildings, infrastructure, mobility, food, goods and services. Transposing industrial ecology tools ...

2016

Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

Jean-Claude Bolay

According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more exte ...

2016