Publications de Derek Pierre Christie

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Paola Viganò, Stéphane Joost, Dusan Licina, Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Mathias Lerch, Catarina Wall Gago, Derek Pierre Christie, Idris Guessous

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

How And Why Do "Frequent Walkers" Integrate 1-2 Hours Of Daily Walking Into Already Busy Schedules

Vincent Kaufmann, Derek Pierre Christie

Elservier2022

A health impact assessment (HIA) on a new motorway bypass in Strasbourg, France

Derek Pierre Christie

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Frequent walkers: from healthy individual behaviours to sustainable mobility futures

Derek Pierre Christie

Walking is often taken for granted or considered as an ancillary activity. Little is known about the distribution of walking in contemporary populations, and even less about the few people who walk for an hour or more in public space on most days of the we ...

EPFL2018

Associations between Daily Walking and Subclinical Health Markers in a Swiss City

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie, Idris Guessous

Every year, the Health Bus (Bus Santé) enables a representative sample of around 1000 members of the non-institutionalised adult population of Geneva, Switzerland, to undergo a health evaluation including physical measurements, blood tests and questionnair ...

2017

The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: Hands On

Derek Pierre Christie

This article describes discussions held at the ICPIC 2015 conference in Geneva, where a one-day session focused on the 2014–2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. Topics include the timeline of the international response, linkages between ...

2016

Pioneering Driverless Electric Vehicles in Europe: The City Automated Transport System (CATS)

Vincent Kaufmann, Derek Pierre Christie

The City Automated Transport System (CATS) was a collaborative FP7 European project that lasted from 2010 to 2014. Its objective was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of driverless electric vehicles in European cities. This contribution explain ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

City Automated Transport System (CATS): The Legacy of an Innovative European Project

Michel Bierlaire, Vincent Kaufmann, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans, Stéphanie Vincent, Derek Pierre Christie, Raphaël Gindrat, Sonia Lavadinho, Susana Da Silva Rodrigues Limão, Arnaud de La Fortelle, Philippe Vollichard

CATS is a collaborative European project promoting driverless vehicles that ended in December 2014. This contribution explains how the project evolved, including the handling of unexpected events and concentrating on lessons learned. The constructor and ve ...

2015

Exploring urban speed in the context of slow-oriented urbanism

Ander Audikana Arriola, Derek Pierre Christie

2015

Dispositions et usages de l’automobile et des transports publics entre 1994 et 2011 : Berne, Genève et Lausanne

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Stéphanie Vincent, Derek Pierre Christie, Sébastien Munafò

Ambition affichée des politiques urbaines dans de nombreuses agglomérations européennes, le report modal de l’automobile vers les transports publics s’est longtemps heurté aux prédispositions de la population en matière de pratiques modales. À partir des d ...

2015