When developing urban areas, one of the key issues to consider is that of traffic. The provision of well-planned, adequate transport infrastructure is key to dealing with the levels of traffic generated by a major urban area. 

This latest research by Pierre Stämpfli, which formed part of his Master thesis at the Centre for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM), Zurich, aimed to analyse the relationship between large infrastructure and urban development by using the example of Geneva’s city bypass, which opened in 1993, as a real case study.