Publications related to Carfree city

Methodologies for understanding and improving pedestrian mobility

Michel Bierlaire, Marija Nikolic, Riccardo Scarinci, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Yuki Oyama, Zhengchao Wang

Pedestrian mobility is at the center of urban transportation systems. Therefore, understanding it is a necessary task to improve the mobility in cities. However, pedestrian mobility is extremely complex, and advance methods are needed to capture its dynami ...

Routledge2020

Needed reduction in mobility energy consumption to meet the goal of a 2000-watt society

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci

Greenhouse gas emissions related to energy production is the main cause of climate change. Transportation accounts for 30% of the total energy consumption, and a reduction in the energy used for mobility is necessary. The 2000-watt society is an environmen ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Performance of Pedestrian-Load Models through Experimental Studies on Lightweight Aluminum Bridges

Scott Walbridge, Ann Christine Sychterz

Aluminum structures provide a high strength-to-weight ratio, are corrosion resistant, and are esthetically pleasing. Hence, their use in bridge construction has recently begun to increase, especially for pedestrian bridges. Because of their relative light ...

2016

Multiple Concentric Gating Traffic Control in Large-Scale Urban Networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mehmet Yildirimoglu

A new gating strategy for concentric cities based on the notion of the macroscopic or network fundamental diagram and the feedback-based gating concept is introduced and successfully tested. Different regions of large-scale urban networks may experience co ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Expansion and densification of cities: linking urban form to urban ecology

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Despite much research on the ecological impacts of urbanization, we still do not know what development patterns are most effective in supporting ecological function. In particular, it is as yet unclear if compact urban forms are ecologically more favourabl ...

2015

A macroscopic loading model for time-varying pedestrian flows in public walking areas

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A macroscopic loading model applicable to time-dependent and congested pedestrian flows in public walking areas is proposed. Building on the continuum theory of pedestrian flows and the cell transmission model for car traffic, an isotropic framework is dev ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique : étude de cas à Douala et à Kigali

Benjamin Michelon

Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

EPFL2012