The Urban Systems Engineering Lab (USE-Lab) aims to develop a people-centric, quantitative, and predictive understanding of the bottom-up organization of cities and use these insights to improve the efficiency and resilience of urban infrastructures. To that end, we apply and further develop computational tools from Urban Analytics, AI, and Complexity Science.
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Paper accepted in Nature Communications!
Our paper "Decentralized electric vehicle charging enables large-scale photovoltaics integration in tropical cities" has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.
Cooling urban cycling networks for heat-resilient mobility - New arXiv Paper
Our lab just published a new arXiv paper: Targeted cooling of urban cycling networks for heat-resilient mobility.
Prof. Schläpfer gives a keynote at UrbanSys2025
Prof. Markus Schläpfer gives a keynote at the UrbanSys2025 meeting, which is part of this year's Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2025) at the University of Siena in Italy (details).