UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, CENTRE FOR TRANSPORT RESEARCH and DHC Ltd
"How Accessibility Shapes the Economy and Society and Vice Versa"
An outstanding opportunity has been created for a well-qualified
candidate to pursue PhD studies as part of collaboration between the
Centre for Transport Research and DHC Ltd, a specialist transport
consultancy.
The Centre for Transport Research is a research centre within the School
of Geosciences and acts as the focus for transport research at the
University of Aberdeen. DHC specialises in developing innovative ideas
with research partners and testing them in the marketplace through pilot
application.
DHC has a wide programme of work including for Department for Transport
and Scottish and Welsh Governments to calculate accessibility indices.
This opens up many potential opportunities for a student prepared to
assist with data management and processing, and use the calculated
indicators to research the links between accessibility and wider social
and economic factors.
Links between transport and many wider economic and social aims have
been researched extensively often with inconclusive results. The
existence of new national data on accessibility provides many new
opportunities for research that would have been impossible in the past.
By replacing less accurate proxies for accessibility such as distance
and public transport service frequencies with indicators that describe
the time and cost of travel to opportunities, new relationships between
transport, society and the economy can be identified.
Much more needs to be known about which accessibility indicators
describe the characteristics that affect land values, economic
efficiency, patient attendance at hospital, and other wider factors. In
all accessibility analysis work there is a need for local surveys to
calibrate the findings. It is expected that the PhD research will need
to include some level of primary research and this may provide
opportunity for selected case studies to be completed.
As part of the studentship the student would be expected to contribute
to accessibility modelling work at DHC Limited. There may also be
opportunities for the student to undertake some part-time paid work at
DHC Limited, helping to supplement the PhD grant. The successful
candidate is expected to commence on 1st September 2008.
More details from:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cops/graduateschool/pgstudentships/accessibility-s
haping.php
<http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cops/graduateschool/pgstudentships/accessibility-
shaping.php>
Closing Date: 31st May 2008.
Informal enquiries may be made to Prof John Nelson
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) or Derek Halden
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ).
John D Nelson,
Professor of Transport Studies,
Centre for Transport Research,
School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen,
St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF.
Tel: +44 1224 272354
Fax: +44 1224 272331
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ctr
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