Swiss Mobility Lab

The Swiss Mobility Lab conducts interdisciplinary research on sustainable mobility. Our team tackles policy-relevant questions, exploring the impact of mobility on quality of life, social capital, ecology, and the economy.

The Swiss Mobility Lab conducts interdisciplinary research that aims to answer policy relevant questions around mobility. Some of the broad questions explored are: What are the implications of mobility for quality of life, social capital, ecology and economy under sustainable development? How can policies be designed in order to be effective, efficient and publicly accepted?

Mobility Challenges

Autonomous vehicles are likely to enter the market within the next decade. By removing the driver from the driver-vehicle system, positive impacts are expected. Decarbonisation and Landscape: Effects on the landscape and the services provided, from supply to the demand particularly also of cultural ecosystem services, including recreation. Electric Mobility: Switzerland clearly lags behind other rich European countries in implementing policies to encourage electric and hybrid cars. Mobility as a Service: Mobility as a Service (MaaS) describes a model whereby personal mobility products are provided in a cohesive and integrated manner. Mobility Pricing: How to overcome the capacity limit of the existing infrastructure, the uncertain financing of road traffic. Mobility simulation helps to reveal complex underlying relations and behavioural patterns, which provides substantial information for more efficient policies. Social Capital: Decreasing costs of travel and communication have led to increased mobility, enabling a large fraction of society to maintain a geographically widespread social network.

Methods

The different nature of the tasks in the ISTP Swiss Mobility Lab require diverse Methods to be further developed and applied in order to meet the requirements of the research projects. Methods can be divided in two categories: modelling and survey research, both of which are based on the same inferential population to achieve consistency in the output of the projects and to better understand the phenomenon of mobility as a whole.

Swiss Mobility Lab Members

Prof. Dr. Reza Abhari
Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer
Prof. Dr. A. Grêt-Regamey
Gracia Brückmann
Florian Lichtin
Patrick Plagowski
Aleksandr Saprykin

Former Swiss Mobility Lab Members

Dr. Victor Blanco
Dr. Sergio Guidon
Dr. Michael Wicki
Dr. Fabian Willibald