September
Transportation service bundling – For whose benefit? Consumer valuation of pure bundling in the passenger transportation market
Sergio Guidon, Michael Wicki, Thomas Bernauer and Kay Axhausen investigated consumer preferences of service bundling in the passenger transportation market (“Mobility as a Service” bundles). The results were presented at the Swiss Mobility Arena by the ISTP researcher Sergio Guidon. Their research was published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
Guest lecture from CERN's Dr. Maurizio Bona in conjunction with the Law & Tech course
The Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich will have the pleasure of hosting CERN's Dr. Maurizio Bona on Tuesday October 1. Dr. Bona is the senior advisor for relations with parliaments and science for policy at CERN. He will give a talk in IFW A.32.1 from 10 am to 12 pm on Tuesday, October 1, in conjunction with the Law & Tech course, which is offered through the Science in Perspective programme.
Launch of the Energy Blog @ ETH Zurich
ISTP PhD student Yael Borofsky, along with PhDs and Post-Docs from 7 other groups at ETH Zurich and the Energy Science Center, have launched the Energy Blog @ ETH Zurich, a new platform for discussions on energy policy, science, technology, and business.
Reflecting on the 6th Symposium on Science, Technology and Public Policy
We would like to warmly thank Prof. Ambuj Sagar from the Indian Institute of Technology, Prof. Noelle Selin from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Prof. Joanna Chataway from the University College London for their visit to the ISTP and their interesting and insightful discussion with Prof. Sarah Springman and Prof. Tobias Schmidt about the importance of science and technology in public policy-making.
Symposium on Science, Technology and Public Policy (SiP #6)
On Tuesday, 17th September 2019, 17:15 - 18:45, the 6th SiP Talk was held in the Main Building of ETH Zürich (HG G 60). Guest speakers of world leading technical universities talked about key societal challenges whose solutions are likely to emerge at the intersection of science, technology, and public policy, discussing how to institutionalize policy-focused, interdisciplinary research, as well as teaching in this field.
Could revenue recycling make effective carbon taxation politically feasible? Insights from an online experiment on how carbon taxes could find acceptance in Germany and the US
Liam Beiser-McGrath and ETH Professor Thomas Bernauer examined whether revenue recycling could achieve sufficient public support for carbon taxes. Their research was published in Science Advances.