Publications related to Public participation

OASIS: An integrated optimisation framework for activity scheduling

Activity-based models offer the potential for a far deeper understanding of daily mobility behaviour than trip-based models. Based on the fundamental assumption that travel demand is derived from the need to do activities, they are flexible tools that aim ...

EPFL2024

Participation citoyenne et numérique. Les civic tech : de nouveaux dispositifs pour planifier le territoire ?

Armelle Loreline Hausser

Civic technologies emerged a few years ago as tools to create new dynamics in the management and governance of urban planning, as well as renewing participatory democracy. In territories where the collision of different scales complicates the understanding ...

EPFL2023

Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science

Jérôme Baudry, Steven Piguet

Citizen scientists around the world are collecting data with their smartphones, performing scientific calculations on their home computers, and analyzing images on online platforms. These online citizen science projects are frequently lauded for their pote ...

2023

Action Levers towards Sustainable Wellbeing: Re-Thinking Negative Emissions, Sufficiency, Deliberative Democracy

Sascha Nick

Systems theory defines leverage points as places to intervene in order to change a system. Points with high impact on system behavior are notoriously hard to act upon, and indeed most policy intervention is based at the lowest level (#12 in Donella Meadows ...

EPFL2023

Modeling and Optimization of Ridesplitting Operations

Caio Vitor Beojone

Ridesourcing has driven a lot of attention in recent years with the expansion of companies like Uber, Lift, and many others around the world. Companies use mobile applications connected through the internet to match drivers and their passengers real-time. ...

EPFL2023

E-guerrilla 3D participation: Approach, implementation, and usability study

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

Typical urban participatory approaches engage citizens through lengthy sessions far from the area under transformation by an urban project. Several issues result from these settings of involvement including the mobilization of similar individuals, overwhel ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Estimating flexibility preferences to resolve temporal scheduling conflicts in activity-based modelling

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala

This paper presents a novel activity-based demand model that combines an optimisation framework for continuous temporal scheduling decisions (i.e. activity timings and durations) with traditional discrete choice models for non-temporal choice dimensions (i ...

SPRINGER2022

Capturing trade-offs between daily scheduling choices

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala

We propose a new modelling approach for daily activity scheduling which integrates the different daily scheduling choice dimensions (activity participation, location, schedule, duration and transportation mode) into a single optimisation problem. The funda ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

Bryan Alexander Ford

While technology is often claimed to be “democratizing”, the technologizing of society has more often yielded undemocratic or even anti-democratic outcomes. Is technology fundamentally at odds with democracy, or is it merely a rich and infinitely-adaptable ...

University of Chicago Press2021

The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an analysis of knowledge, values and power at the science-society interface

Livia Bianca Fritz

Problem. In the field of sustainability, scholars and policy-makers herald the transformative power of participation in transdisciplinary (TD) research. The increasing use of TD in science policy is rooted in the expectation that involving practitioners in ...

EPFL2020

Idiap & UAM participation at GermEval 2020: Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational Style from Text

Petr Motlicek

In this paper, we describe the participation of the Idiap Research Institute at GermEval 2020 shared task on the Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational style from Text, specifically on subtask 2, Classification of the Operant Motive Te ...

Hamburg University2020

Anterior insula reflects surprise in value-based decision-making and perception

Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Kerstin Preuschoff

The brain has been theorized to employ inferential processes to overcome the problem of uncertainty. Inference is thought to underlie neural processes, including in disparate domains such as value-based decision-making and perception. Value-based decision- ...

2020

Participation-effect pathways in transdisciplinary sustainability research: An empirical analysis of researchers’ and practitioners’ perceptions using a systems approach

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In sustainability research, transdisciplinary (TD) approaches that involve practitioners in the research process have emerged as promising tools for enhancing real-world knowledge and engendering societal change. However, empirical insights into how such p ...

2019

Mapeamento Participativo: Tecnologia e Cidadania. Livro de resumos do encontro internacional Técnicas de Mapeamento e Cidadania (São Paulo, 2018) / Participatory Mapping: Technology and Citizenship. Conference proceedings of the international meeting Mapping Techniques and Citizenship (São Paulo, 2018)

What is the potential of new technologies to generate, in a decentralized and participatory way, reliable spatial information to support urban and social development? More precisely, what is the potential of new technologies to enhance citizen participatio ...

Editora da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo2019

"Citizen Science"? Rethinking Science and Public Participation

Jérôme Baudry

Since the late twentieth century, “citizen science” has become an increasingly fashionable label for a growing number of participatory research activities. This paper situates the origins and rise of the term “citizen science” and offers a new framework to ...

2019

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eléonore Labattut

In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...

2019

Participation as Relational Space: A Critical Approach to Analysing Participation in Sustainability Research

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

In the field of sustainability, scholars, and policy-makers herald the transformative power of participation in knowledge production. However, a discrepancy between these expectations and the limited understanding of the complex interactions constituting p ...

2018

Congestion and departure time choice equilibrium in urban road networks

Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

When drivers are regularly faced with congestion, they try to optimize their departure time. If the demand and the road network evolve slowly enough, the entire system may approach an equilibrium, i.e. a state such that no one can be better off by unilater ...

EPFL2018

Digital tools and citizen participation: Towards sustainable and responsive urban planning

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Marc Soutter

The smart city concept has existed for decades now. It was presented as a response to help cities cope with challenges they were facing such as rapid urbanization, climate change, resource depletion, and sustainability. Based mainly on sensors, flow optimi ...

2017

Digital Tools as a Means to Foster Inclusive, Data-informed Urban Planning

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Marc Soutter

Rapid urbanization, climate change, resource depletion, the desire for more sustainable development and widespread use of the Internet and mobile phones are major challenges for urban planning. While the smart city model is seen as a means to cope with the ...

2017