Centre for Transport Studies
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London
Research Associate
Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across a Grid Environment (MESSAGE)
Traffic makes a significant contribution to air pollution in inner cities.
Governments devise policies and traffic management schemes to minimise the
impact of air pollution. More detailed knowledge of how traffic-generated
pollution behaves in the urban environment could greatly enhance these policies
and schemes. Factors such as street and building design, vehicle braking and
accelerating patterns, individual traveller decisions and local weather
conditions affect the concentration of pollutants that individuals are exposed
to as they move around. The MESSAGE project is jointly funded by the EPSRC
and the Department for Transport. It will develop e-Science and grid
technologies to enable data from a network of mobile sensors to be gathered
and interpreted. The e-Science technologies developed will be generic enough
for use in other applications of mobile sensor networks, for example, climate or
weather mapping. The MESSAGE project is led by Imperial College London, and
comprises a consortium of partners drawn from the Universities of Cambridge,
Southampton, Newcastle and Leeds who will work closely with one another and
with a number of major industrial partners and transport authorities.
This post will be based in the Centre for Transport Studies (CTS) at Imperial
College London and will have responsibility for the development of traffic and
air quality modelling tools to support one of the major MESSAGE applications
in London. This application will involve the deployment of a range of types of
wireless-based air pollution sensors on buses and other vehicle fleets in London
and the use of the data collected in this way to provide dynamic estimates of
air quality and to improve the treatment of air quality management in urban
traffic management and control systems. The successful applicant will work
closely with other MESSAGE researchers based in CTS and elsewhere at
Imperial (in the Departments of Computing, Electrical and Electronic
Engineering and Physics) and with the research teams in the other MESSAGE
institutions. There will also be close collaboration with a number of industrial
partners, including Transport for London.
Applicants should be qualified to doctoral level in a relevant aspect of
transport network and/or air quality modelling and be familiar with modern
statistical computing techniques. Some familiarity with eScience technology
would be desirable but is not essential.
Salary in the range: £23,560-£30,790 p.a. This is a fixed term appointment
for 32 months, with the possibility of extension.
To apply, please email an application form (downloadable from
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research), an up to date CV with
details of two academic referees and a brief personal statement to:
Professor John Polak
Centre for Transport Studies
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44(0)20-7594-6089
Fax: +44(0)20-7594-6102
Web: www.imperial.ac.uk/cts
Potential applicants wishing to discuss either of these posts informally are
encouraged to contact Professor Polak directly.
Closing date: 7 November 2006
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Prof. John Polak
Head of Centre for Transport Studies
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London
London SW7 2AZ
T: +44-(0)20-7594-6089
F: +44-(0)20-7594-6102
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/transport-studies
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