Insights
This page collects short, non-technical essays and reflections on urban mobility, congestion, transport AI, EV charging, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable cities. The goal is to make research ideas more accessible to policymakers, practitioners, students, journalists, and curious readers beyond the academic community.
Interactive Pareto Explorer for Workplace EV Charging Tradeoffs
Interactive plot for exploring tradeoffs between percent demand met and mean charging cost across Offline Optimal solutions. The visualization highlights three convergent solution sets associated with different TOU-pricing-level mixes.
Related paper: Kumar, N., Wang, Y., Chin, J.-X., & Raubal, M. (2025). Quantifying the impacts of non-recurrent congestion on workplace EV charging infrastructures, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 146, 104869.
Resilience in connected infrastructures: how traffic disruptions can affect EV charging and the power grid
A non-technical article explaining how traffic disruptions can cascade into EV charging demand and power grid stress, and why integrated infrastructure planning matters for resilient cities.
Originally published by Future Resilient Systems, Singapore-ETH Centre / ETH Zurich, August 2025. Archived PDF copy saved by the author for long-term access in case the original webpage becomes unavailable.
Complexity-Aware Traffic Prediction: Interactive Demo Notebook
An interactive usability demo on toy sensor readings that shows the end-to-end workflow from data setup to traffic prediction outputs. It is designed for quick exploration and can be run directly in Google Colab without local setup.
Related paper and repository by Kumar, N. et al.: Complexity-aware traffic prediction with an accessible, hands-on demo for broader outreach.