Research

About the research I am doing

Please find a list of published papers, theses, posters, and supervised works here. You can also find me on Google scholar for more information.

Published theses


Spatio-Temporal Information and Communication Technologies Supporting Sustainable Personal Mobility

Doctoral / PhD Thesis by Dominik Bucher, supervised by Prof. Martin Raubal, Prof. Harvey Miller, and Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz

Chair of Geoinformation Engineering, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2020.

Modular Simulations and Timinig Issues in Whole-Cell Models

Master's Thesis by Dominik Bucher, supervised by Prof. Vincent Danos and Prof. Heinz Koeppl

Informatics Life-Sciences Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK and Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.

Local Browsing - Information Seeking Tailored to Mobile Devices

Semester Thesis by Sebastian Wendland, Samuel Zihlmann, Dominik Bucher, supervised by Dr. Fabio Magagna, Prof. Sutanto and Prof. Plattner

Management of Information Systems / Computer Science Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2012.

What's New? - Information and Entertainment Application for Android and iPhone

Semester Thesis by Dominik Bucher, supervised by Samuel Welten, Mihai Calin and Prof. Wattenhofer

Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2012.

Published research papers


Energy and greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials resulting from different commuter electric bicycle adoption scenarios in Switzerland

Dominik Bucher, René Buffat, Andreas Froemelt, Martin Raubal

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 114, 2019.

For a quick overview, check out the website under mie-lab.github.io/commuter-ebikes-ch.

A Clustering-Based Framework for Understanding Individuals' Travel Mode Choice Behavior

Pengxiang Zhao, Dominik Bucher, Henry Martin, Raubal Martin

The Annual International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 77-94, 2019.

Does new bicycle infrastructure result in new or rerouted bicyclists? A longitudinal GPS study in Oslo

Ray Pritchard, Dominik Bucher, Yngve Karl Frøyen

Journal of Transport Geography 77, 113-125, 2019.

A Large Scale, App-Based Behaviour Change Experiment Persuading Sustainable Mobility Patterns: Methods, Results and Lessons Learnt

Francesca Cellina, Dominik Bucher, Francesca Mangili, José Pedro Ramalho Veiga Simão, Roman Rudel, Martin Raubal

Sustainability 11(9), 2019.

Beyond Limitations of Current Behaviour Change Apps for Sustainable Mobility: Insights from a User-Centered Design and Evaluation Process

Francesca Cellina, Dominik Bucher, José Pedro Ramalho Veiga Simão, Roman Rudel, Martin Raubal

Sustainability 11(8), 2019.

From location tracking to personalized eco-feedback: A framework for geographic information collection, processing and visualization to promote sustainable mobility behaviors

Dominik Bucher, Francesca Mangili, Francesca Cellina, Claudio Bonesana, David Jonietz, Martin Raubal

Travel Behaviour and Society, 2019.

Exploiting Structure in Human Mobility Behavior using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

Henry Martin, Dominik Bucher

1st Swiss Workshop on Machine Learning for Environmental and Geosciences, Zurich, Switzerland, 2019.

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Purpose Imputation

Henry Martin, Dominik Bucher, Esra Suel, Pengxiang Zhao, Fernando Perez-Cruz, Martin Raubal

Modeling and Decision-Making in the Spatiotemporal Domain (Workshop at the Thirty-Second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS), Montreal, Canada, 2018.

Multimodal Route Planning with Public Transport and Carpooling

Haosheng Huang, Dominik Bucher, Julian Kissling, Robert Weibel, Martin Raubal

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018.

Identifying and Interpreting Clusters of Persons with Similar Mobility Behaviour Change Processes

David Jonietz, Dominik Bucher, Henry Martin, Martin Raubal

21st Conference on Geo-information Science (AGILE 2018): Geospatial Technologies for All, Lund, Sweden, 2018.

Assessing the Influence of Spatio-Temporal Context for Next Place Prediction using Different Machine Learning Approaches

Jorim Urner, Dominik Bucher, Jing Yang, David Jonietz

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018.

Featured Cover Article

Captcha Your Location Proof - A Novel Method for Passive Location Proofs in Adversarial Environments

Dominik Bucher, David Rudi, René Buffat

Progress in Location Based Services, presented at the 14th Conference on Location Based Services (LBS), Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.

Continuous Trajectory Pattern Mining for Mobility Behaviour Change Detection

David Jonietz, Dominik Bucher

Progress in Location Based Services, presented at the 14th Conference on Location Based Services (LBS), Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.

Using Stream Processing to Find Suitable Rides: An Exploration based on New York City Taxi Data

Roswita Tschümperlin, Dominik Bucher, Joram Schito

Spatial Big Data and Machine Learning in GIScience Workshop at the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) 2018, Melbourne, Australia, 2018.

Intersections of our World

Paolo Fogliaroni, Dominik Bucher, Nikola Jankovic, Ioannis Giannopoulos

10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) 2018, Melbourne, Australia, 2018.

Analyse von Bewegungsdaten mit freier Software - Das Beispiel SBB Green Class

Dominik Bucher, David Jonietz, Henry Martin, Martin Raubal

GeoSummit Bern, 2018.

E-Mobilität: Welche Parkhäuser eignen sich für Photovoltaikdächer?

Janis Münchrath, René Buffat, Dominik Bucher, Martin Raubal

GeoSummit Bern, 2018.

Usage patterns and impacts of a mobility flat rate traced with a Smartphone App

Henrik Becker, Allister Loder, Basil Schmid, David Jonietz, Dominik Bucher, Kay W. Axhausen, Martin Raubal

15th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Santa Barbara, USA, 2018.

Vision Paper: Using Volunteered Geographic Information to Improve Mobility Prediction

Dominik Bucher

1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Prediction of Human Mobility at the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Los Angeles, USA, 2017.

A Model and Framework for Matching Complementary Spatio-Temporal Needs

Dominik Bucher, Simon Scheider, Martin Raubal

25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017), Los Angeles, USA, 2017.

Targeted Sensing Technology for Bicycle Research - Early Results from a Longitudinal Study in Oslo

Ray Pritchard, Dominik Bucher

International NTNU Sustainability Science Conference, Trondheim, 2017.

Using Locally Produced Photovoltaic Energy to Charge Electric Vehicles

René Buffat, Dominik Bucher, Martin Raubal

Computer Science - Research and Development / D-A-CH+ Energieinformatik., 2017.

Demo Abstract: Extracting Eco-feedback Information From Automatic Activity Tracking to Promote Energy-efficient Individual Mobility Behavior

Dominik Bucher, Francesca Mangili, Claudio Bonesana, David Jonietz, Francesca Cellina, Martin Raubal

Computer Science - Research and Development / D-A-CH+ Energieinformatik, 2017.

Energy-based Routing and Cruising Range Estimation for Electric Bicycles

Simon Haumann, Dominik Bucher, David Jonietz

AGILE, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2017.

Best Short Paper Award

Towards an Analytical Framework for Enriching Movement Trajectories with Spatio-Temporal Context Data

David Jonietz, Dominik Bucher

AGILE, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2017.

A Heuristic for Multi-Modal Route Planning

Dominik Bucher, David Jonietz, Martin Raubal

13th Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS), 2016.

Exploiting Fitness Apps for Sustainable Mobility - Challenges Deploying the GoEco! App

Dominik Bucher, Francesca Cellina, Francesca Mangili, Martin Raubal, Roman Rudel, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Omar Elabed

ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), 2016.

Promoting Sustainable Mobility Styles using Eco-Feedback and Gamification Elements: Introducing the GoEco! Living Lab Experiment

Francesca Cellina, Dominik Bucher, Roman Rudel, Martin Raubal, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli

4th European Conference on Behavior and Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE), 2016.

GoEco! - A Set of Smartphone Apps Supporting the Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility Patterns

Francesca Cellina, Dominik Bucher, Martin Raubal, Roman Rudel, Vanessa de Luca, Massimo Botta

Change-IT Workshop at ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), 2016.

Vereinfachtes Finden von alternativen Transportmöglichkeiten

Dominik Bucher, Paul Weiser, Martin Raubal

GeoSummit Bern, 2016.

Matching Complementary Spatio-Temporal Needs of People

Dominik Bucher, Paul Weiser, Simon Scheider, Martin Raubal

12th Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS), 2015.

A Taxonomy of Motivational Affordances for Meaningful Gamified and Persuasive Technologies

Paul Weiser, Dominik Bucher, Francesca Cellina, Vanessa De Luca

ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), 2015. , 2015.

Nominated for Best Paper Award

Towards Sustainable Mobility Behavior: Research Challenges for Location-Aware Information and Communication Technology

Paul Weiser, Simon Scheider, Dominik Bucher, Peter Kiefer, Martin Raubal

Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS), 2015.

Decomposition of Strongly Coupled Systems

Dominik Bucher, Ilias Garnier, Ricardo Honorato, Vincent Danos

Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory (YR-CONCUR), 2013.

Published research posters


Analysis framework and results of the SBB Green Class pilot studies

Henry Martin, Henrik Becker, Dominik Bucher, David Jonietz, Kay W. Axhausen, Martin Raubal

6th Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, Zürich, 2019.

Nominated for Best Poster Award

The future of logistics: How will electric trucks shape the future energy demand and distribution of Switzerland?

Keyuan Yin, Dominik Bucher, Henry Martin, René Buffat, Martin Raubal

6th Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, Zürich, 2019.

Nominated for Best Poster Award

The Potential of Residential Rooftop Photovoltaic Energy to Charge Electric Cars for Daily Use

Henry Martin, René Buffat, Dominik Bucher, Martin Raubal

Annual Conference SCCER FURIES, Lausanne, 2018.

Best Poster Award

Using a GIS-based Framework to Analyze the Impact of a Mobility as a Service Offer

Henry Martin, Dominik Bucher, David Jonietz, Martin Raubal

5th Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2018.

Nominated for Best Poster Award

Data Completeness Assessment for GNSS-assisted Travel Surveys

David Jonietz, Dominik Bucher, Martin Raubal

4th Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2017.

GoEco! Extracting Eco-Feedback from Movement Trajectories

Dominik Bucher, David Jonietz, Martin Raubal, Francesca Mangili, Claudio Bonesana, Francesca Cellina

4th Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2017.

Nominated for Best Poster Award

Location-based User Profiling for Personalized Mobility Support

David Jonietz, Dominik Bucher, Martin Raubal

3rd Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2016.

Challenges and Results from Deploying the GoEco! Tracker App

Dominik Bucher, Francesca Cellina, Francesca Mangili, David Jonietz, Roman Rudel, Martin Raubal, Andrea E. Rizzoli

3rd Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2016.

Eco-Feedback and Gamification Elements for Sustainability: The GoEco! Living Lab Experiment

Francesca Cellina, Roman Rudel, Vanessa de Luca, Andrea E. Rizzoli, Massimo Botta, Martin Raubal, Dominik Bucher, Paul Weiser

6th European Transport Research Conference, Transport Research Arena (TRA), 2016.

GoEco! - A smartphone application leveraging eco-feedback and gamification techniques to nudge sustainable personal mobility styles

Francesca Cellina, Roman Rudel, Vanessa de Luca, Nikolett Kovacs, Andrea E. Rizzoli, Dominik Bucher, Paul Weiser, Martin Raubal

2nd Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2015.

Matching Complementary Transport Needs

Dominik Bucher, Paul Weiser, Simon Scheider, Martin Raubal

2nd Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, ETH Zurich, 2015.

Supervised theses


The Future of Logistics: How will Electric Trucks Shape the Future Energy Demand and Distribution of Switzerland?

Keyuan Yin, supervised by Dominik Bucher, Henry Martin, Dr. René Buffat and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2019.

Real-Time Processing of Spatio-Temporal Data: Taxi Scheduling in New York City

Roswita Tschümperlin, supervised by Dominik Bucher and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.

Renewable Power Production Potential in Car Parking Areas

Janis Münchrath, supervised by René Buffat, Dominik Bucher and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2017.

Assessing and Predicting Mobility Behavior using Neural Networks

Jorim Urner, supervised by Dominik Bucher, Jing Yang, Dr. David Jonietz, Prof. Ross Purves and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2016.

Carsharing and Carpooling in Multi-Modal Routing

Julian Kissling, supervised by Dominik Bucher, Dr. Kai-Florian Richter, Dr. Haosheng Huang, Prof. Robert Weibel and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2016.

Optimizing the Operation Range of E-Bikes in Routing Systems

Simon Haumann, supervised by Dominik Bucher and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2016.

Das Traveling Salesman Problem und die Optimierung von Auslieferungszeiten

Katharina Henggeler, supervised by Dominik Bucher, Ioannis Giannopoulos and Prof. Martin Raubal

Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.