Ein Blog der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
The future of private car mobility might be predominantly electric and powered by batteries. However, the environmental impacts of electric vehicles increase significantly with larger battery sizes. When relying on car utilization, vehicles with smaller batteries (i.e. smaller car, shorter range) should generally be preferred. However, the adoption of small cars is exacerbated by misjudgments […]
What factors increase the openness to switch to a sustainable long-term mobility lifestyle from previously using a combustion engine car? A lot of research about sustainable mobility is conducted on mode choice behaviour and less so on long-term mobility decisions, especially considering a multimodal mobility lifestyle. We want to close this gap and address the […]
The mobility needs of the Swiss workforce are changing – Within the ENSCC Smart Commuting Project, the Institute for Sustainable Development of ZHAW explores how to improve the commuting systems of tomorrow along with their project partners from Finland and Austria. The importance of work-related travelling significantly increased during the last few years: The number […]
In a research project for and with the city administration of Winterthur, the MobINE team tried to find out, if and how the BiCar (a new kind of electricity-driven vehicle which was developed by ZHAW) can be usefully implemented in Winterthur’s transport systems. During this research, not only the BiCar was looked at but also the […]
The EU-Project METPEX aims the development of a tool that measures the quality of travel experience. The Work Package 6 of this project, leaded by INE, studies the link between land use and accessibility as a likely determinant of travel satisfaction. As a result of the literature review undertaken in the Deliverable 6.2 few publications […]