January
An alternative to carbon taxes
(Repost from ETH News) Climate policy is most effective when it helps people use alternative energy sources, rather than when it makes fossil energy more expensive, argue Anthony Patt and Johan Lilliestam.
Swiss Federal Council Member Ignazio Cassis in Khayelitsha
On 11th January 2019 Prof. Hubert Klumpner welcomed Swiss Federal Council Member Ignazio Cassis on the project site of Empower Shack in Cape Town. Mr. Cassis toured the site and talked at length with Hubert about the project.
The social aspect of residential location choice: on the trade-off between proximity to social contacts and commuting
The ISTP researchers Sergio Guidon, Michael Wicki along with our members Prof. Thomas Bernauer and Prof. Kay Axhausen recently published an article in the Journal of Transport Geography. It deals with the social aspect of residential location choice, and the trade-off between proximity to social contacts and commuting.