Regina Witter, deputy head of the program agglomeration transport program at the Federal Office for Spatial Development, as a Policy Fellow at the ETH Zurich. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / Michel Büchel)
Regina Witter, deputy head of the program agglomeration transport program at the Federal Office for Spatial Development, as a Policy Fellow at the ETH Zurich. (Photograph: ETH Zurich / Michel Büchel) The new ETH Policy Fellowship aims to foster greater understanding between government and the academic world. Regina Witter from the Federal Office for Spatial Development was among the first cohort to take part. Battery or hydrogen power? Which one will drive the trucks and buses of the future? This question is more than just academic for Regina Witter. As deputy head of the Agglomeration Transport programme at the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE), she helps decide which projects benefit from CHF 1.6 billion of federal funds to promote sustainable spatial and transport planning. "We recently discussed an idea put forward by an agglomeration to convert public bus transport to hydrogen power," Witter recalls. But does this approach really make technological sense? This was just one of many questions on Witter's mind when she visited ETH Zurich last autumn.
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