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Third-cycle subject: Transportation Science
The population in the Stockholm region is estimated to be 3.4 million in 2050, a growth of 50% to today's 2.4 million. The rapid population growth will result in higher traffic congestion and crowding in public transport. Large travel demand is already responsible for noise, pollution, crowding, and stress for travelers and people living in urban areas. There will be a need for policy decisions that can secure robust, reliable, attractive, and sustainable public transport.
Travel and other traditional surveys used for policy decisions experienced a large drop in response rates in past years. With this project, we investigate an alternative of using a large dataset of anonymized longitudinal travel diaries inferred from all the ticket validations in the Stockholm region. You will work on synthesizing data on public transport travelers by revealing the most representative groups and various choice models. You should have experience and interest in working with large datasets, choice and behavioral modeling, user segmentation, profiling, and simulation. Project outputs will contribute to policy decision support tools and enable evaluation of potential impacts of policy decisions on public transport demand and its performance.
Supervision: Zhenliang Ma, Wilco Burghout, Matej Cebecauer, and Oded Cats (KTH), and Maria Bratt Börjesson and Ida Kristofferson (VTI) are proposed to supervise the doctoral student. Decisions are made on admission.
To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:
In addition to the above, there is also a mandatory requirement for English equivalent to English B/6.
In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:
After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency.
Target degree: Licentiate degree
Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time. In the case of studies that are to be completed with a licentiate degree, the total period of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education for two years.
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | According to agreement |
Salary | Monthly salary according to KTH's doctoral student salary agreement |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Stockholm |
County | Stockholms län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | A-2024-1226 |
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Published | 05.Jun.2024 |
Last application date | 19.Jun.2024 11:59 PM CEST |