Guest: Pieter Fourie https://fcl.ethz.ch/people/CoreTeam/PieterFourie.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-j-fourie-392b4092/
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-design-podcast/
Creative Producer: Kash Singh https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/
Sound: Dylan Tan https://www.willdylan.com
Music: ShowNing https://www.showningdj.com
“Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?” You may recall when Marty McFly and Doc Emmet Brown went back to 1885, and Doc in a saloon was rambling with the gents about how horse carriages became motorized carriages called automobile, and people just run for fun. Will zero marginal cost and autonomous vehicle usher in a reality where we will just walk for fun?
Dr Pieter Fourie is the project leader of the Engaging Mobility group at FCL. Pieter has more than 10 years experience in agent-based transport simulation and has been an active developer of the open source MATSim project since 2008.
https://fcl.ethz.ch/research/responsive-cities/engaging-mobility.html
He wants to bring these tools into practice, and see simulations used in neighborhood sketch-planning. Pieter obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich while at FCL and received the ETH Medal for his PhD thesis 'Data-driven Transit Simulation'.
Much of his research deals with the generation of models depicting more realistic populations of households and individuals that are derived from limited and incomplete information. Along with this team he has developed an integrated approach to modelling coordinated activity such as ride-sharing behavior and speeding up agent based transport simulations through meta-modelling techniques.
