Dr. Andrea Del Duce

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Lecturer and Head of the Sustainable Mobility research group

www.zhaw.ch/ine

Professional development teaching

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

Expertise and research interests

Sustainable mobility

Educational background

2010: Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, University College London, London, UK
1997: Laurea degree (MSc equivalent) in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

Professional milestones

2017 - 2019: Senior Research Associate, Institute of Sustainable Development
2013 - 2017: Sustainability Consultant at Quantis, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 - 2013: Post-Doc Researcher, Life Cycle Assessment and Modelling Group, Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Projects

• SWEET LANTERN – Living Labs Interfaces for Energy Transition / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Car occupancy rate / Project leader / Project ongoing
• MixMyRide – Mixing public transport, carpooling and active mobility to reduce solo car use / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Sustainable Multimodal Mobility in Toggenburg / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Innovations-Ökosystem Mobilität Stadt Winterthur / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Denner-Mobile: Sustainable Shopping Mobility / Project leader / Project completed
• Virtual Reality Konferenzsysteme zur Erhöhung der Akzeptanz von webbasierten Meetings und zur Reduktion der Mobilität in post-COVID Zeiten / Project leader / Project completed
• Social, mobility and energetic impacts of home-office on the employees of the School of Engineering / Project leader / Project completed
• Environmental assessment of various battery management systems for an electric waste collection vehicle / Project leader / Project completed
• Fostering electrification of public transport in India / Project leader / Project completed
• Nachhaltige Mobilität School of Engineering der ZHAW / Project leader / Project completed
• Erarbeitung einer Strategie und eines Konzepts zur Förderung der Elektromobilität und neuer Mobilitätsformen / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Smart Mobility Experience / Team member / Project completed
• Study on mobility management at the Paul Scherrer Institute / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Verkehr der Zukunft 2060: Neue Angebotsformen - Organisation und Diffusion / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• SCCER Joint Activity: The evolution of mobility - A socio-economic analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• SCCER-Mobility / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Hoerler, Raphael; Stoiber, Thomas; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2023.

  Push and pull strategies to increase the uptake of small electric vehicles.

  Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

  116(103638).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103638

• Hoerler, Raphael; van Dijk, Jeremy; Patt, Anthony; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2021.

  Carsharing experience fostering sustainable car purchasing? : investigating car size and powertrain choice.

  Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

  96(102861).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102861

• Hoerler, Raphael; Stünzi, Anna; Patt, Anthony; Del Duce, Andrea,

  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).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-020-00412-y

• Ernstoff, Alexi; Tu, Qingshi; Faist, Mireille; Del Duce, Andrea; Mandlebaum, Sarah; Dettling, Jon,

  2019.

  Comparing the environmental impacts of meatless and meat-containing meals in the United States.

  Sustainability.

  11(22).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226235

• West, Mirjam; Näf, Rebecca; Del Duce, Andrea; Hoerler, Raphael; Yildirim, Onur,

  2021.

  Virtuell in die Mobilität von morgen abtauchen : Akzeptanz urbaner Mobilitätslösungen

  .

  In:

  Proff, Heike, ed.,

  Making Connected Mobility Work.

  Springer.

  pp. 329-341.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32266-3_19

• Rühlin, Viola; Del Duce, Andrea; Scherrer, Maike,

  2022.

  Assessment of environmental impacts of online and physical retail channels in medicine trades [paper].

  In:

  9th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22 March 2022.

• Hörler, Raphael; Stoiber, Thomas; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2022.

  Battling the large car boom: How to increase the adoption of small battery electric vehicles [paper].

  In:

  9th Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 November 2022.

• Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Dijk, Jeremy Van; Patt, Anthony; Del Duce, Andrea,

  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 [paper].

  In:

  2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Delft, Netherlands, Online, 3-5 November 2020.

  Delft:

  IEEE.

  pp. 70-76.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS46898.2020.9264903

• Hoerler, Raphael; Trachsel, Thomas; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2020.

  The fear of urban sprawl through autonomous vehicles in commuting : a segmentation analysis of the Swiss population [paper].

  In:

  2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS).

  Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Delft, Netherlands, Online, 3-5 November 2020.

  IEEE.

  pp. 64-69.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS46898.2020.9264842

• Tomic, Uros; Hoerler, Raphael; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2019.

  Mode choice for commuting and leisure : a matter of lifestyle? [poster].

  In:

  6th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 6 September 2019.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18758

• Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2019.

  Transforming the Swiss mobility system : who are the future e-sharers? [poster].

  In:

  6th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 6 September 2019.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18759

• Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2021.

  Feedback loops in mobility and recommendations on system transformation – the Swiss case.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23359

• Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea,

  2021.

  Swiss mobility transformation to sustainability : recommendations on niche developments.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22661

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Peer-reviewed:
-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)

Non-peer-reviewed:
-A. Del Duce, R. Zah, “Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Elektromobilität (Limits and opportunities of electric transportation)”, contribution in the Swiss magazine VSE
Bullettin.

-H.-J. Althaus, C. Bauer, A. Del Duce, M. Gauch, „Sind Elektromobile ökologisch wirklich besser als konventionelle Fahrzeuge? (Are electric vehicles really environmentally better
than conventional ones?)“, contribution in Verkehrsclub Schweiz (VCS) Autoumweltliste. (published on-line)

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