PhD student - Passenger behavioural response to planned railway maintenance disruptions — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Role overview
PhD student
Passenger behavioural response to planned railway maintenance disruptions
100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
- PhD student
- Passenger behavioural response to planned railway maintenance disruptions
Additional details
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term
- This position focuses on the development of revealed and stated preference surveys to model passenger response to the effects on train service of planned railway maintenance disruptions in Switzerland. Project background
- The outputs of those models will be used as inputs to the other work packages of the project to improve the estimation of the inherent uncertainty related to railway maintenance interventions and, ultimately, guide decision-making.
- Participate in (ongoing) research projects and support the acquisition of new research projects Contribute to teaching and examinations
- Successfully author research papers in high-impact research journals and will successfully author and defend a doctoral dissertation on the main research project MSc degree in the fields
Notes and original content
- This position focuses on the development of revealed and stated preference surveys to model passenger response to the effects on train service of planned railway maintenance disruptions in Switzerland.
- Project background
- Job description
- Participate in (ongoing) research projects and support the acquisition of new research projects
- Contribute to teaching and examinations
- Successfully author research papers in high-impact research journals and will successfully author and defend a doctoral dissertation on the main research project
- MSc degree in the fields
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