Dr. Andrea Del Duce

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer and Senior Researcher in Sustainable Mobility

Focus

Sustainable Mobility

Teaching

• SIC-NATRE - Block week seminar Sustainable Fuels
• Technology Assessment
• CAS Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions – Data, Energy and Mobility

Professional development teaching

• WBK Grundlagen und Organisation von Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions
• WBK Data, Energy and Mobility for Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions
• CAS Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions – Data, Energy and Mobility

Experience

• Lecturer and Head of the Sustainable Mobility research unit
  Institute of Sustainable Development, ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland
  10 / 2019 - 04 / 2024
• Senior Research Associate
  Institute of Sustainable Development, ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland
  10 / 2017 - 09 / 2019
• Sustainability Consultant
  Quantis, Zurich, Schweiz
  03 / 2013 - 09 / 2017
• Post-Doc Researcher
  Life Cycle Assessment and Modelling Group, Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  11 / 2010 - 01 / 2013

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Ph.D. / Electronic Engineering
  University College London, London, UK
  08 / 2003 - 02 / 2010
• M.Sc. equivalent / Electronic Engineering
  Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
  09 / 1996 - 11 / 2002

Continuing Education

CAS Higher Education
Zurich University of Teacher Education
06 / 2022

Network

Membership of networks

Digital Mobility Lab

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3767-2364

Projects

• Enhancing Public Transport Connections to the Upper Toggenburg through the Mobility Solution ‘Winter-Hit Chäserrugg’ / Project leader / ongoing
• Multiplicative imagination of citizens and stakeholders towards the 15 minutes city / Project leader / ongoing
• ZHAW Commuting 2024 / Project leader / ongoing
• Unleashing active and micro-mobility’s full potentials to reduce energy consumption by substituting car trips / Project leader / ongoing
• Living Labs Interfaces for Energy Transition / Team member / ongoing
• Design Zurich / Deputy project leader / completed
• Car occupancy rate / Project leader / completed
• Sustainable commuting at ZHAW / Project leader / completed
• Denner-Mobile: Sustainable Shopping Mobility / Project leader / completed
• Sustainable Multimodal Mobility in Toggenburg / Project leader / completed
• MixMyRide – Mixing public transport, carpooling and active mobility to reduce solo car use / Project leader / completed
• Environmental assessment of various battery management systems for an electric waste collection vehicle / Project leader / completed
• Social, mobility and energetic impacts of home-office on the employees of the School of Engineering / Project leader / completed
• Fostering electrification of public transport in India / Project leader / completed
• Smart Mobility Experience / Team member / completed
• Study on mobility management at the Paul Scherrer Institute / Deputy project leader / completed
• SCCER-Mobility: Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research, Efficient Technologies and Systems for Mobility / Project leader / completed
• SCCER Joint Activity: The evolution of mobility – A socio-economic analysis / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Baumann, M. et al. (2026) 'Understanding angles of change to reduce car dependency in rural areas : evidence from Switzerland', Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 117(103479). doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2025.103479.
• Hoerler, R. et al. (2025) 'Factors influencing the adoption of carpooling in Switzerland : a differentiation between platforms, family and friends and colleagues', Transportation Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 34(101674). doi: 10.1016/j.trip.2025.101674.
• Cellina, F. et al. (2025) 'Can we become car-free in just one month? : evidence from Switzerland', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 148(104991). doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2025.104991.
• Hoerler, R., Stoiber, T. and Del Duce, A. (2023) 'Push and pull strategies to increase the uptake of small electric vehicles', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 116(103638). doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103638.
• Rühlin, V., Del Duce, A. and Scherrer, M. (2023) 'The impact of spatial aspects on the supply chain and mobility demand of pharmaceutical products in e-commerce and brick-and-mortar shopping', Sustainability, 15(14), p. 11058. doi: 10.3390/su151411058.
• Hoerler, R. et al. (2021) 'Carsharing experience fostering sustainable car purchasing? : investigating car size and powertrain choice', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 96(102861). doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2021.102861.
• Hoerler, R. et al. (2020) 'What are the factors and needs promoting mobility-as-a-service? Findings from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS)', European Transport Research Review, 12(27). doi: 10.1186/s12544-020-00412-y.
• Ernstoff, A. et al. (2019) 'Comparing the environmental impacts of meatless and meat-containing meals in the United States', Sustainability, 11(22). doi: 10.3390/su11226235.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

West, M. et al. (2021) 'Virtuell in die Mobilität von morgen abtauchen : Akzeptanz urbaner Mobilitätslösungen', in Proff, H. (ed.) Making Connected Mobility Work. Springer, pp. 329–341. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-32266-3_19.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Baumann, M., Knoeri, C. and Del Duce, A. (2025) 'Understanding barriers and drivers of active and micromobility to reduce car dependency in Switzerland', in Transportation Research Symposium (TRS), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 25-28 May 2025.
• Baumann, M. et al. (2025) 'Understanding carpooling : a meta-analysis of socio-demographic, situational, and attitudinal factors', in Transportation Research Symposium (TRS), The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 25-28 May 2025.
• Baumann, M., Schubert, I. and Del Duce, A. (2025) 'Empowering sustainable tourism mobility through multimodal transportation in rural areas', in McNally, C. et al. (eds) Transport transitions : advancing sustainable and inclusive mobility. Cham: Springer, pp. 72–78. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-85578-8_10.
• Hörler, R., Stoiber, T. and Del Duce, A. (2023) 'Battling the large car boom: How to increase the adoption of small battery electric vehicles', in Transportation Research Procedia. Elsevier, pp. 1296–1302. doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.590.
• Rühlin, V., Del Duce, A. and Scherrer, M. (2022) 'Assessment of environmental impacts of online and physical retail channels in medicine trades', in 9th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22 March 2022.
• Hoerler, R. et al. (2020) 'Are carsharing users more likely to buy a battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric or hybrid electric vehicle? : powertrain choice and shared mobility in Switzerland', in 2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS). Delft: IEEE, pp. 70–76. doi: 10.1109/FISTS46898.2020.9264903.
• Hoerler, R., Trachsel, T. and Del Duce, A. (2020) 'The fear of urban sprawl through autonomous vehicles in commuting : a segmentation analysis of the Swiss population', in 2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS). IEEE, pp. 64–69. doi: 10.1109/FISTS46898.2020.9264842.
• Tomic, U., Hoerler, R. and Del Duce, A. (2019) 'Mode choice for commuting and leisure : a matter of lifestyle?', in 6th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 6 September 2019. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-18758.
• Hoerler, R., Tomic, U. and Del Duce, A. (2019) 'Transforming the Swiss mobility system : who are the future e-sharers?', in 6th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 6 September 2019. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-18759.

Other publications

• Hoerler, R., Tomic, U. and Del Duce, A. (2021) Feedback loops in mobility and recommendations on system transformation – the Swiss case. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-23359.
• Hoerler, R., Tomic, U. and Del Duce, A. (2021) Swiss mobility transformation to sustainability : recommendations on niche developments. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22661.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Baumann, M. et al. (2025) 'Factors influencing the adoption of carpooling : a meta-analysis of socio-demographic, situational and attitudinal predictors', in Transportation Research Procedia. Elsevier, pp. 11–12. doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.12.067.
• Tomic, U. et al. (2023) 'Do multimodal travellers intend to increase the use of public transport and shared micro-mobility? : evidence from Switzerland', in Mobility Research and Innovation in Switzerland, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 12 September 2023.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Del Duce, Andrea; Gauch, Marcel; Althaus, Hans-Jörg: "Electric passenger car transport and passenger car life cycle inventories in ecoinvent version 3", International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 21, pp. 1314-1326, (2016)
• Bauer, Christian; Hofer, Johannes; Althaus, Hans-Joerg; Del Duce, Andrea; Simons, Andrew: "The environmental performance of current and future passenger vehicles: Life cycle assessment based on a novel scenario analysis Framework", Applied Energy, Vol. 157, pp. 871-883, (2015)

Other publications

• Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea, 2021. Feedback loops in mobility and recommendations on system transformation – the Swiss case. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
• Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea, 2021. Swiss mobility transformation to sustainability : recommendations on niche developments. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

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