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Kurt Heutschi, a senior scientist in Empa's Acoustics / Noise Control lab, explains what noise does and why we perceive sound so differently.

The router in your home might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic and sending it to a different destination.

Together with teams from England and Germany, researchers developed a monitoring system for aircraft components.

Congestion may initially increase if road space is reduced but it soon reverts back to normal as drivers make alternative arrangements, says Professor David Metz (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering).

Ambitions to make hydrogen a key energy carrier for a climate friendly future are misguided, says Anthony Patt.

If travellers behave selfishly there will be more congestion and everyone will end up taking longer to get where they need to be, argue postdoctoral researcher, Rafael Prieto Curiel (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and Juan Pablo Orejuela from the University of Oxford.

Berkeley Lab study shows how battery-electric trains can deliver environmental justice, cost-savings, and resilience to the U.S. Near elimination of air pollution from diesel-electric freight trains by 2025 is now possible by retrofitting them with battery tender cars.

· With ever-stricter noise regulations, aircraft and engine manufacturers are on a mission to reduce noise pollution from aircraft engines · Novel aero-acoustic simulations that could be used to opti

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed the process technology that can produce carbon-neutral transportation fuels from sunlight and air.

College of Engineering researchers James Coakley and Giacomo Po are helping to develop a new class of refractory alloys that would increase aircraft engine efficiency and lower CO2 emissions.

Consortium developing solution for low-emission cargo transport It is an ambitious goal: By 2030 the German government aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 65 percent compared to 1990.

L3Pilot, Europe's first comprehensive pilot test of automated driving on public roads demonstrates automated systems for cars in Hamburg, Germany, in conjunction with ITS World Congress 2021 SAE Level 3 and 4 automated driving systems have been tested on ordinary roads in seven European countries, including cross-border activities, thanks to pan-European testing environments and methodologies that have been developed with help from WMG, Universi

Urban brownfields represent a major challenge to sustainable transition that remains difficult to overcome.

Researchers have developed a real-time approach that can help prevent incidents like the large-scale disruption at London's Gatwick Airport in 2018, where possible drone sightings at the perimeter of the airport caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

TUM, IABG and Bavarian Ministry of Transport join forces The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) are building a new test bed for intelligent mobility concepts.

UZH Space Hub and Airbus Defence and Space are sending an experiment into space on the next resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS) with the aim of advancing the industrial production of human tissue in microgravity.

By Birgit Baustädter Fossil combustion engines are generally considered to be less environmentally friendly, as they are responsible for a large proportion of transport-related CO2 emissions.

A team of EPFL engineers, in association with local businesses and authorities, are testing novel algorithms for the deployment of greener EV fast-charging stations.

By Susanne Eigner The fully autonomous, mobile charging robot finds its way independently to the parked electric vehicle (EV) and supplies it with energy.

Extremely low-density graphene-based aerogel 'meringue' can improve passenger comfort and reduce noise up to 80% Last updated on Friday 18 June 2021 An incredibly light new material that can reduce aircraft engine noise and improve passenger comfort has been developed at the University of Bath.

"3D morphing" wings could help small aircraft safely navigate windy urban streets and land with shorter approaches Wings that can vary their shapes as freely as birds' wings could have advantages for

See how the methodology works as a Level 4 AV must safely navigate seven scenarios that commonly lead to crashes EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 10-11 a.m. June 17, 2021 (journalists are welco

The routes and schedules of public transit, the presence or absence of sidewalks, the availability of different transportation options, and the design of highways that divide cities-these are examples

Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), together with Airbus Defence and Space (ADS), have developed a system that rapidly detects electric arcs in aircraft. This technological research project is being funded by the ADS with support from the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI, in its Spanish acronym) and will contribute to developing safer and cleaner aircraft.

Sociologists at EPFL conducted a survey of the factors that prompt people to select one form of transportation over another, and then compared the results from cities across Switzerland.

Carnegie Mellon University May 05, 2021 Sean Qian and Weiran Yao have used information extracted from tweets to provide unparalleled accuracy for predicting morning traffic patterns. Qian, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering , and Yao, Qian's Ph.D. candidate, published their results in Transportation Research.

The sounds of a truck racing to the end of the block are soon replaced by the screeching of the brakes bringing the four-axle semi to a stop.

Million-Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium examines the state of hydrogen fuel-cell technology for heavy-duty vehicle applications Interest in hydrogen fuel cells as a sustainable source of clean energy

The California Air Resources Board has enacted more stringent policies against diesel emissions than the rest of the U.S., significantly reducing air pollution and death in California's most vulnerable communities and beyond. (Photo courtesy of the California Air Resources Board) Extending California's stringent diesel emissions standards to the rest of the U.S. could dramatically improve the nation's air quality and health, particularly in lower income communities of color, finds a new analysis published today in the journal Science.

The transition to 5G will affect every device connected to the internet, including drones. A team of scholars is working to protect the technology from vulnerabilities.

Developing a system that monitors and gives early warnings about natural events that pose a risk to aviation safety is ALARM's aim, a European R&D&I project coordinated by the Universidad Car

It is the first smart image sensor jointly featuring auto-exposure for all lighting conditions and 88dB dynamic range, as well as motion detection and feature extraction for event-based functioning, and AI-based object recognition that triggers highly reliable identification.

By Birgit Baustädter Urban designer Aglaée Degros explores rural and urban in-between spaces and what happens in them.