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Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo

ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)

Computational Social Science

Stampfenbachstrasse 48

Zurich, Zurich 8092

Switzerland

  • ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)

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1.

Digital Twins: Potentials, Ethical Issues, and Limitations

Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Aug 2022
Dirk Helbing and Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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A Replica for our Democracies? On Using Digital Twins to Enhance Deliberative Democracy

AI & SOCIETY, 0[10.1007/s00146-025-02511-7]
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2025
Claudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Dirk Helbing, Antonino Rotolo and Luciano Floridi
Yale University - Digital Ethics Center, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), University of Bologna - Department of Legal Sciences and Yale University - Digital Ethics Center
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digital twin, deliberative democracy, regulatory sandboxes, simulations, artificial intelligence

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Testing Deliberative Democracy Through Digital Twins

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Apr 2025
Claudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Dirk Helbing, Antonino Rotolo and Luciano Floridi
Yale University - Digital Ethics Center, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), University of Bologna - Department of Legal Sciences and Yale University - Digital Ethics Center
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digital twin, deliberative democracy, regulatory sandboxes, simulations, artificial intelligence, e-democracy

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Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Nov 2022
Dirk Helbing, Sachit Mahajan, Regula Hänggli, Andrea Musso, Carina Ines Hausladen, Cesare Carissimo, Dino Carpentras, Elisabeth Stockinger, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Joshua Yang, Mark C. Ballandies, Marcin Korecki, Rohit Kumar Dubey and Evangelos Pournaras
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), University of Fribourg, affiliation not provided to SSRN, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Leeds
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Digital Democracy, Participation, Value-Based Engineering, Adaptive Infrastructure, Computational Diplomacy

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A Virtual Reality Experiment to Study Citizen Perception of Future Street Scenarios

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Oct 2023
Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Carina Ines Hausladen, Sachit Mahajan, Marc Matter, Michael Siebenmann, Michael A. B. van Eggermond and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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virtual reality, street scenario, traffic, pedestrian, urban design

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Evaluating Urban Bike-Sharing Accessibility: A Comparative Study of 40 Cities Worldwide

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Jun 2024
Sachit Mahajan and Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Less Can Be More: Pruning Street Networks for Sustainable City Making

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Dec 2022
Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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urban simulation, Complex systems, mobility, urban sustainability, planning, Braess Paradox

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Spatial Econometrics to Estimate the Traffic Reduction by Transforming Office Space into Housing: The Case for Barcelona

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Aug 2024
Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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urban modelling, Spatial Econometric Model, land use, traffic OD matrices, adaptive reuse, gradient boosting

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Cooperative Adaptable Lanes for Safer Shared Space and Improved Mixed-Traffic Flow

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
Rohit K. Dubey, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Damian Dailisan and Dirk Helbing
affiliation not provided to SSRN, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Adaptable Lanes, Transportation, Cooperative Reinforcement Learning, Smart Streets, Urban Planning

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Routify.ch: An Open-Source Framework for Pluralistic Urban Routing

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Jan 2026
Sachit Mahajan, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Alexander Eggerth, Christoph Schweighofer and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zurich, ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Pluralistic Routing, Environmental Awareness, Healthy Urban Mobility, Algorithmic Transparency, Open-Source Software

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Fairlane: A Multi-Agent Approach to Priority Lane Management in Diverse Traffic Composition

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Jun 2024
Rohit K. Dubey, Damian Dailisan, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo and Dirk Helbing
affiliation not provided to SSRN, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Right-Of-Way, Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Reinforcement Learning, Priority Lanes, Urban Planning

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Not Your Mean Green: Beyond Averages in Mapping Socio-Spatial Inequities in Urban Greenery for Smart Cities

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jan 2026
Jenny Martinez, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo and Sachit Mahajan
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Urban Greenery, Environmental Justice, Smart Cities, Spatial Inequality, Canopy Height, Colombia