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The global mobility system is very important for the economy and the well-being of society. In parallel, passenger and freight transport exhibit a high demand for space, infrastructure and energy resources, while they may have negative impacts on the environment, specifically through noise and pollutant emissions. Of particular importance however i...
There is great uncertainty about the transition from human to autonomous driving vehicles, as well as about the extent and direction of their potential impacts on the urban shape and design. Predictions and scenarios have been developed, that adopt a global perspective, but lack in contextualization to local organization of the transport sector. Un...
Following the growing trend for electric passenger cars, due to their lower environmental and climate impacts, a trend towards the electrification of public transport is emerging, particularly regarding urban buses. However, the reliability of the service offered by electric alternatives to diesel-powered buses and the costs of the related transiti...
Following the growing trend for passenger cars, due to their lower environmental and climate impacts, a trend towards the electrification of public transport is emerging, particularly regarding urban buses. However, the reliability of the service offered by electric alternatives to diesel-powered buses and the costs of such a transition have not be...
The present urban transportation system, mostly tailored for cars, has long shown its limitations. In many urban areas, public transportation and soft mobility would be able to effectively satisfy many travel needs. However, they tend to be neglected, due to a deep-rooted car dependency. How can we encourage people to make sustainable mobility choi...
How can we encourage people to make sustainable mobility choices, reducing car dependency and the related CO 2 emissions and energy consumption? Taking advantage of the wide availability of smartphone devices, we designed GoEco!, an application (app) exploiting automatic mobility tracking, eco-feedback, social comparison and gamification elements t...
Participatory design of management scenarios for the Ticino chestnut belt
Current guidelines for forest management ask for multi-functional management schemes, allowing a balance between different forest functions, such as production, protection, recreation and ecology. This requires adoption of multi-criteria processes for forest planning. In such...
For the past years, the City of Bellinzona (Canton Ticino) has been devoting considerable efforts to reduce individual car use and to favour diffusion of public transport and slow mobility, especially by allocating funds for new cycling infrastructures and improved bus/train interchanges. Although necessary to promote a change in the dominant mobil...
The transition towards electric mobility is increasingly acknowledged as one of the most beneficial strategies for the reduction of air pollution and noise in urban areas, for climate protection at the worldwide level and for direct integration with smart electric grids. Moreover, it may act as a leverage to promote a wider transition towards more...
The project GoEco! takes advantage of the wide availability of smartphones, in order to overcome the traditional awareness-raising approach used to foster sustainable mobility and exploit eco-feedback, social norms and peer pressure elements in an ICT-based motivation system. In particular, it uses a smartphone app to analyze how we can encourage p...
The present urban transportation system, mostly tailored for cars, has long shown its limitations. In many urban areas, alternative and effective transport modes are already available, ranging from well-established systems such as public transportation and slow mobility networks to emerging alternatives like vehicle-sharing systems. However, these...
The large interest in analyzing one's own fitness led to the development of more and more powerful smartphone applications. Most are capable of tracking a user's position and mode of locomotion, data that do not only reflect personal health, but also mobility choices. A large field of research is concerned with mobility analysis and planning for a...
How can we encourage people to engage in more sustainable mobility lifestyles, reducing car use?
Taking advantage of the wide availability of smartphones, we overcome the traditional awareness-raising
approach and exploit eco-feedback, social norms and peer pressure elements in an ICT-based motivation system. We developed two smartphone Apps, whic...
The present urban transportation system, mostly tailored for cars, has long shown its limitations. In many urban areas, alternative and effective transport modes are already available and they could be used in inter‐modal combinations to satisfy many travel needs: public transportation, slow mobility networks, vehicle‐sharing systems. However, thes...
Poster presented at the 2015 SCCER Mobility Annual conference
Poster presented at the 2015 SCCER Mobility annual conference
The diffusion of electric vehicles is one of the most promising opportunities to reduce dependency
on fossil fuels and to pave the way for the transition to a more sustainable mobility. However,
apart for the main barrier still represented by the purchase cost, the adoption of electric vehicles
is still hindered by other barriers, such as autonomy,...
The incremental deployment of small scale stochastic generators has a significant impact low voltage grids. We investigated the applicability of local voltage measurements at household sockets as predictors of the power at the low voltage branch of the transformer. The general goal is to evaluate the feasibility of a decentralized demand-side contr...
We present the S2G-Home, a residential smart grid facility aimed at testing and evaluating several decentralized load management strategies. The control systems we are developing are installed in twenty households in a residential low voltage grid in the southern part of Switzerland. The S2G-Home enabled the validation of the energy management algo...
The diffusion of the photovoltaic installations is reaching significant levels in the low voltage electric grid, therefore the need of effective energy management strategies increases. Within the Swiss2Grid (S2G) pilot project we are designing and testing a tool that allows the decentralized management of the distributed generation and consumption...
The Swiss2Grid project is a pilot and demonstration aimed at evaluating the impact of different distributed demand management policies in Smart Grids. The fundamental idea of the project is to optimize the load management of the low voltage distribution grid by a fully-decentralized decision making algorithm. The algorithm makes decisions on load s...
SUPSI has an electric vehicle (EV) equipped with a data logger which allows to collect the data of the performances and the journeys of the car. An analysis of the data collected over a period of 19 months has been made. The goal was to accumulate know-how in the sector of electric vehicles. The analysis of the data allows to determinate which infl...
An electric vehicle (EV) has been equipped with a data logger, which allows to collect the data of the performances and the journeys of the car. An analysis of the data collected over a period of 19 months has been made. The goal was to cumulate know-how in the sector of electric vehicles. The analysis of the data allows to estimate which influence...
Diffusion of smart mobile devices offers unprecedented opportunities to monitor travel behaviour, by
means of the GPS devices they are equipped with: using a suitable application, potentially every
smartphone owner can produce huge, inexpensive quantities of data suitable to profile her mobility
patterns. We take advantage of this opportunity withi...
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are one of the most common elements for energy storage. The usage of these systems in renewable energy and traction sectors is gaining wide interest. A BESS has a finite life-cycle, determined by many influencing factors. An electrical storage models offer the possibility to simulate the behavior of these syste...
We developed and verified the decentralized control algorithm in a simulated environment. A preliminary testing of the hardware components was needed before the deployment in the pilot households. We realized for this purpose the Swiss2Grid Home, a test facility on the SUPSI campus. This small home presents an electrical systems equivalent to a sin...
We present the Swiss2Grid project, a pilot and demonstration aimed at evaluating the impact of different distributed demand management policies in Smart Grids. The increasing diffusion of decentralised energy generation, especially photovoltaics, can lead to severe imbalances on the electric grid, which could require huge investments in grid infras...
The diffusion of electric vehicles is currently the most promising opportunity to reduce the dependency on fossil fuel in the mobility sector. However, the adoption of the electric vehicles seems to be still hindered by psychological and behavioural barriers. Thus, in order to understand and to foster the transition towards more sustainable mobilit...
The high penetration of PV systems in a residential district reduces the use of fossil fuels, emission of CO2 and pollutants and energy losses, but requires a fine-tuned management of the grid. Within the Swiss2Grid (S2G) pilot project, 20 private households in the same district have been equipped with smart PV energy production units. The installa...
Poster presented at the Progress Report Meeting 2013 of the Swiss National Research Programme NRP66 "Resource wood".
http://www.nfp66.ch
The NRP66 is completeley funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).
Il PEC è il Piano energetico del Cantone Ticino. Nel 2010 è stato pubblicato il rapporto per la consultazione. Nel 2013 è stato pubblicato il Piano d'azione che raccoglie e sintetizza le istanze emerse dal processo di consultazione delle parti sociali e degli enti interessati. Il Piano d'azione 2013 è inoltre in linea con la Strategia energetica 20...
Due to global climate change and future energy challenges (peak oil and regional independence on energy supply), local and national policies worldwide promote an increase in the use of timber both in the building sector and for energy production purposes.
The MOBSTRAT project aims at understanding whether mobilising more timber is possible and whic...
Il PEC è il Piano energetico del Cantone Ticino. Nel 2010 è stato pubblicato il rapporto per la consultazione. Esso inquadra dapprima la situazione attuale: - illustra il bilancio energetico cantonale; - informa delle possibilità date dalla situazione mondiale, dagli sviluppi tecnologici, in funzione dei potenziali presenti in Ticino; - posiziona l...
The paper presents the current pricing scheme on Swiss highway roads with a focus on the difference between passenger and freight transport and the historical framework of the Swiss transport policy. The Swiss highway system is financed by fuel tax, an annual charge of about 30€ on passenger cars (flat fee) and a weight and kilometer dependent char...
Globalization and European integration increase the claim for better quality in freight transport and logistics services. The paper focuses on the evaluation of different quality attributes of transport services in a significant segment in the Swiss freight market. The paper is based on conjoint analysis, generated by discrete binary choices betwee...
Zusammenfassung : In diesem Arti- kel wird ubersichtsmàssig die Entwicklung des alpenquerenden Verkehrs dargestellt. Die Géographie der Verbindungslinien zwischen dem Norden und Siiden der Alpen hat sich seit den ersten grossen Eisenbahndurchstichen am Ende des letzten Jahrhunderts kaum mehr verändert. Die starke Verkehrszunahme seit den 60iger und...
This study aims to delve into annealing and degradation mechanisms observed for amorphous silicon modules during outdoor operation. Particular interest is devoted to finding optimum conditions for the annealing process, in terms of temperature level and heating period, leading to high efficiency recovery in degraded amorphous silicon modules. The i...
The transformation of the present haulage industry to a more sustainable system is a major challenge and a high priority in the political agenda. In the terrestrial freight market high hopes rely on the intermodal rail-road transport. However, intermodal transport is used for a rather small market segment of concentrated freight flows over long dis...
Abstract Transport is one of the key factors of modern economy and,the ongoing,process of European integration. The increasing problems with delays due to lacking,capacity and poor quality of some transport services as well as the arising conflicts over environmental and sustainability goals pose a major challenge to the European transport policy....
