Colloquium: Prof. Kay W. Axhausen
Tuesday, 10th December 2019, at 17.15 - 18.30
ETH Zurich, UNO B 11, Universitätstrasse 41
How many cars are too many? Recent results in the light of automated vehicles
This talk will address the key dilemma of today’s transport policy that too many cars are fighting for the limited road space. In the absence of a clear speed (accessibility) policy, the productivity gains due to higher accessibility cannot be ensured. New results indicate that the number of single passenger used cars need to be limited with on-going population growth and static networks.
The possible arrival of automated – level five – vehicles promises to avoid the hard choices implied in the above dilemma. The talk will present new results, which show the limits of such expectations.
About Prof. Kay W. Axhausen
Kay W. Axhausen is a full Professor of Transport Planning in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich. Before working at ETH, he worked at the University of Innsbruck, the Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He holds Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as Ph.D. in civil engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Prof. Axhausen is known for writing a significant amount of papers, presentations and research data. He is an editor in chief of Transportation, and serves on the editor's advisory board of Transportation Research A, and Travel Behaviour and Society.
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- You can download the presentation of the talk Download here (PDF, 17 MB).