Dr. K.W. Axhausen has been Professor of Transport Planning at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) from 1999 until 2024. He held his post in the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Before his appointment at ETH he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He holds a Doctorate in Civil Engineering from the Universität Karlsruhe (now KIT) and an MSc from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He received an honorary doctorate from the Danish Technical University in 2020 and the IATBR lifetime achievement award in 2024. He is a member of the German Academy of Engineering acatech.
One strand of his recent work focuses on the micro-simulation of daily travel behaviour and long-term mobility choices (See www.matsim.org for details). This work is supported by analyses of mobility tool ownership on the one hand and their dependence between activity spaces and the traveller’s personal social network on the other hand.
The second strand of his work is dedicated to the evaluation of transport projects. He led the effort to write the new Swiss cost-benefits guideline (SN 640 820ff) and of the recent German and Swiss value of time studies. Current work is tracing the long-term implications of accessibility by modelling its change over the centuries.
A third strand is the GPS-based tracking of travel behaviour under pan-demic conditions (https://ivtmobis.ethz.ch/mobis/covid19/en/)
