The Chair of Infrastructure Management takes part in the E-Bike-City Lighthouse project at ETH Zurich!
What if 50 percent of the existing urban road space was allocated to e-bikes and the slow modes? How would this change our daily lives? How many CO2 emissions could this save? These questions are at the core of “E-Bike City”, a lighthouse project of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) at ETH Zurich. Prof. Bryan T. Adey's Chair of Infrastructure Management is one of seven professorships that will address these questions over the next three years.
The transport sector faces major challenges: On the one hand, traffic emissions (noise, CO2, air pollutants) and congestion need to be rapidly reduced; on the other hand, there are increasing mobility demands and growing expectations for the transport system’s reliability and for providing accessibility for all. So far, the transport sector has been unable to find viable and publicly acceptable solutions out of this dilemma. This dilemma is the motivation of the D-BAUG lighthouse project "E-Bike City", which offers a radical departure from the incremental plans proposed so far to achieve a net-zero transport world.
The new lighthouse initiative fosters strategic big-picture projects which establish beacons for societal transformation and development, associated with the three "Grand Challenges" to which D-BAUG contributes new approaches to sustainable engineering: "Increasing Urbanization", "Sustainable Infrastructures" and "Changing Environment".
A kick-off event will take place on 23 November 2022 from 13:00 - 20:00 at the ETH Zentrum HG F 20 Audi Max. For organisational reasons, registration is requested.
The Infrastructure Management Group mission is to improve the construction and management of infrastructure. For more information visit our webpage