PhD student Traffic Assignment

Within the Transportation Research Institute (IMOB) of Hasselt University, the following position (m/f) is available:

PhD student Traffic Assignment (2x2 years)
(mandate 090/32/096)

Job description
This PhD project consists of assigning the journeys (an origin-destination matrix) generated by an activity-based transport model to a traffic network (traffic assignment). Traditionally, an 'assignment model' is being used for this end. The goal of this research project is to study the existing assignment models and then improving them by means of extra information delivered by the activity-based transport model regarding the journeys made.

Profile
The candidate must have affinity with quantitative research- and data-analysis methods and software programming.

Diploma
Master Civil Engineer, Master Statistics, Master Mathematics, Master Commercial Engineer (in Business Information Systems), Master in the Engineering Sciences, Master Informatics, Master Transportation Sciences, or an equivalent degree. Senior students are also encouraged to apply.

Offer
It concerns a PhD scholarship which is situated within the BOF-project "Measuring road safety impacts of traffic policy measures using travel demand models". The candidate will be appointed for a period of 2x2 years (with an evaluation after 2 years). The starting date can be negotiated.

Further information

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Prof. dr. Geert Wets, +32 11 26 91 58, geert.wets@...
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Prof. dr. Davy Janssens, +32 11 26 91 28, davy.janssens@...
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Content terms of employment and selection procedure: Jef Vanvoorden, 011-26 80 80, jef.vanvoorden@...

Application
Applicants must use the official application forms

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which are available at the Rectoraat of Hasselt University, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan - building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek (Belgium), phone +32 - 11 - 26 80 10
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or which can be downloaded here pdf-file ( http://www.uhasselt.be/download/APengelsUH.pdf ) / Word format ( http://www.uhasselt.be/download/APengelsUH.doc )

The completed application forms must reach the above mentioned address no later than June 4th 2010.

Application by e-mail will only be taken into consideration when sent to the following address: jobs@.... Continue Reading...

Masters and PhD Scholarships, QUT, Australia

QUT engineering masters and PhD research scholarships
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is one of Australia's most valuable
players in research and provides quality assured research solutions for
industry, government, and the non-profit and community sectors.

QUT's Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering plays a key role in national
centres of excellence in integrated engineering asset management, rail
technologies, spatial information, and automotive technologies. It also leads
major national and international research projects in aviation, renewable energy
and energy distribution.

QUT invites applications from outstanding engineering graduates around the globe
for two-year masters or three-year PhD scholarships.

The successful applicants will commence their candidature in the 2010 academic
year to work alongside world-class experts in some of Australia's leading
cooperative research centres and institutions.

Postgraduate research degrees are offered in Master of Engineering (Research),
Master of Applied Science (Research) and Doctor of Philosophy (Built Environment
and Engineering).

Our faculty offers a number of full tuition and living allowance scholarships to
assist our international and domestic research students undertaking a PhD or
research masters.

Research scholarship opportunities are available in the following areas:


* Aviation
* Complex Urban Systems Design
* Energy
* Orthopaedics and Trauma
* Intelligent Transport


After the completion of a QUT research degree, PhD candidates are
comprehensively prepared to enter a competitive labour market with practical and
academic competence and high employability.

Learn more about our research areas by visiting: www.bee.qut.edu.au/research

Details of the scholarship

The living allowance stipend is $20,000 per annum, tax exempt for three years.
International students who are offered the scholarship will also be considered
for a tuition fee waiver scholarship.

Eligibility

To be considered, candidates will require a first-class honours or second-class
division A honours degree, an appropriate masters degree (research or
coursework) or a professional doctorate from a recognised institution. Masters
degrees by coursework and professional doctorates must contain a significant
research component (no less than 33 per cent of the total degree) or significant
publications records.

Application closing date

Applications close on Friday, 23 April 2010.

For more information, please contact David Kabelele, Scholarships Officer for
QUT's Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering (Research Portfolio) on +61 7
3138 8033 or +61 7 3138 1424 or email bee.scholarshipofficer@... Continue Reading...

Organizational context of traffic modelling - PhD stipend in Aalborg Univ.

Job description:
Organizational context of traffic modelling

The PhD stipend is available within the general study programme “Planning and Development”.

The PhD project is a part of a larger research project entitled “Uncertainties in Transport Project Evaluation” carried out by Aalborg University and Denmark\’s Technical University in cooperation with few universities and research institutes in other countries. The political goals within the transport sector often conflict with the general trend development, e.g. the increasing transport demand and volumes that lead to increasing congestion and CO2 emissions. The users\’ responses to policy initiatives and the derived impacts can be difficult to forecast due to complex causal relationships. Traffic forecast models and socio-economic cost-benefit analyses have been increasingly applied as tools for decision support, and they are often used to justify new transport infrastructure projects.

However, experience from a number of large-scale investment projects has shown that the traffic forecasts on which decisions to implement the projects were based, have often been insufficient and sometimes misleading.

The purpose of the PhD project is to investigate the role of traffic models in some selected strategic-level planning and policy formation processes within a Danish and other Scandinavian context. The study is expected to illuminate how the results of traffic modelling are being interpreted by planners, politicians and the media during the period up to decision-making on proposed transport infrastructure projects, the use of different types of models in national and regional decision-making processes, the use of model results in EIAs and cost-benefit analyses, the scope of the need analyses in which traffic model forecasting is used, and the response of constructors and users of traffic models to the criticism posed by researchers against the inherent assumptions of the models.

Organizational affiliation:
The PhD fellow position is organizationally anchored in the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, where some teaching will occur and the research project to which the PhD stipend is connected will be carried out. The PhD fellow will be a member of the Research Group for Urban Planning and Mobility Studies.


Qualification requirements:
PhD stipends are allocated to individuals who hold a Masters degree. PhD stipends are normally for a period of 3 years. It is a prerequisite for allocation of the stipend that the candidate will be enrolled as a PhD student at the Doctoral School of the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine, in accordance with the regulations of Ministerial Order No. 18 of January 14, 2008 on the PhD Programme at the Universities. According to the Ministerial Order, the progress of the PhD student shall be assessed every six months. It is a prerequisite for continuation of salary payment that the previous progress is approved at the time of the evaluation.

The qualifications of the applicant will be assessed by an assessment committee. On the basis of the recommendation of the assessment committee, the Dean of the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine will make a decision for allocating the stipend.


Appointment and salary acc. to the Ministry of Finance Circular of January 11, 2006 on the Collective Agreement for Academics in Denmark, Appendix 5, regarding PhD fellows, and with the Ministry of Finance Circular of June 13, 2007 on the employment structure at Danish Universities.

For further information about stipends and salary contact Ms. Tine Lützhøft, The Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine, email: tl@adm.aau.dk, phone: +45 9940 7380.

The PhD application form can be downloaded from the following address:
http://www.phd.ins.aau.dk/get-a-phd/3591832

The faculty has a research school, The Doctoral School of Engineering, Science and Medicine: http://www.phd.ins.aau.dk and a Network for all PhD students: http://pau.aau.dk

You may obtain further information from Professor Petter Næss, Department of Development and Planning, phone: +45 9940 8373, email: petter@plan.aau.dk concerning the technical aspects of the stipend.
Application marked with the PhD stipend No. 562/06-20-29125, should include in four copies: the PhD application form, the Masters diploma including grades, publications, Curriculum Vitae, proposal for a PhD study plan and any other material, as well as a list of submitted material. Due to legal constraints electronic applications will not be accepted. The application must arrive at Aalborg University with the morning post by the 1.7.2009.

Application is to be forwarded to :
Aalborg Universitet
De Ingeniør-, Natur- og Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakulteter
Niels Jernes Vej 10
DK-9220 Aalborg Øst Continue Reading...

Systematic Biases in transport models - phd stipend Aalborg Univ.

Job description:
Systematic Biases in transport models

The PhD stipend is available within the general study programme “Planning and Development”.

The PhD project is a part of a larger research project entitled “Uncertainties in Transport Project Evaluation” carried out by Aalborg University and Denmark’s Technical University in cooperation with few universities and research institutes in other countries. The political goals within the transport sector often conflict with the general trend development, e.g. the increasing transport demand and volumes that lead to increasing congestion and CO2 emissions. The users’ responses to policy initiatives and the derived impacts can be difficult to forecast due to complex causal relationships. Traffic forecast models and socio-economic cost-benefit analyses have been increasingly applied as tools for decision support, and they are often used to justify new transport infrastructure projects.

However, experience from a number of large-scale investment projects has shown that the traffic forecasts on which decisions to implement the projects were based, have often been insufficient and sometimes misleading.

The purpose of the PhD project is to investigate why traffic forecasts are wrong, and how they can become significantly more accurate. To understand this, forecasted versus actual traffic are studied: How do traffic volumes after project opening compare to the forecasts? Is there any systematic pattern in deviations between forecasted and actual traffic volumes? How is this explained? What are the consequences? The aim is to show whether decisions to build are well-informed or not. Therefore the forecasts available to decision makers at the time of making the decision to build are compared to actual outturn traffic.


Organizational affiliation:
The PhD fellow position is organizationally anchored in the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, where some teaching will occur and the research project to which the PhD stipend is connected will be carried out. The PhD fellow will be a member of the Research Group for Urban Planning and Mobility Studies.


Qualification requirements:
PhD stipends are allocated to individuals who hold a Masters degree. PhD stipends are normally for a period of 3 years. It is a prerequisite for allocation of the stipend that the candidate will be enrolled as a PhD student at the Doctoral School of the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine, in accordance with the regulations of Ministerial Order No. 18 of January 14, 2008 on the PhD Programme at the Universities. According to the Ministerial Order, the progress of the PhD student shall be assessed every six months. It is a prerequisite for continuation of salary payment that the previous progress is approved at the time of the evaluation.

The qualifications of the applicant will be assessed by an assessment committee. On the basis of the recommendation of the assessment committee, the Dean of the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine will make a decision for allocating the stipend.


Appointment and salary acc. to the Ministry of Finance Circular of January 11, 2006 on the Collective Agreement for Academics in Denmark, Appendix 5, regarding PhD fellows, and with the Ministry of Finance Circular of June 13, 2007 on the employment structure at Danish Universities.

For further information about stipends and salary contact Ms. Tine Lützhøft, The Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine, email: tl@adm.aau.dk, phone: +45 9940 7380.

The PhD application form can be downloaded from the following address:
http://www.phd.ins.aau.dk/get-a-phd/3591832

The faculty has a research school, The Doctoral School of Engineering, Science and Medicine: http://www.phd.ins.aau.dk and a Network for all PhD students: http://pau.aau.dk

You may obtain further information from Professor Petter Næss, Department of Development and Planning, phone: +45 9940 8373, email: petter@plan.aau.dk concerning the technical aspects of the stipend.
Application marked with the PhD stipend No. 562/06-20-29124, should include in four copies: the PhD application form, the Masters diploma including grades, publications, Curriculum Vitae, proposal for a PhD study plan and any other material, as well as a list of submitted material. Due to legal constraints electronic applications will not be accepted. The application must arrive at Aalborg University with the morning post by the 1.7.2009.

Application is to be forwarded to :
Aalborg Universitet
De Ingeniør-, Natur- og Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakulteter
Niels Jernes Vej 10
DK-9220 Aalborg Øst

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