EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY - PhD STUDENTSHIPS 2015
Edinburgh Napier University are offering a number of fully-funded PhD studentships in the area of transport in 2015. PhD Scholarships will be open to overseas and home/EU applicants to apply and will be advertised via jobs.ac.uk and via the Times Higher Education publication and website as of 26 March 2015.
Please see below:
Optimisation of scheduling, timetabling, travel-plans or logistics using bio-inspired methods to produce lower-carbon and person-centred solutions.
Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
Mountain bike trail design: soil stability and wheel loadings.
Freight transport: An analysis of how consolidation centres can reduce emissions and congestion caused by freight transport in urban areas.
Travel demand and behaviour: Developing an online theory-based behavioural change intervention delivery tool to facilitate sustainable modal choices.
Reasons why public transport infrastructure costs more in Britain and Ireland than in the rest of north west Europe.
This is the sound of the suburbs: differences in travel behaviour and attitudes to sustainable transport between urban and suburban dwellers, with a particular focus on those who move from urban to suburban areas.
Investigation of car modelling behaviour of autonomous and autonomous vehicles using simulation.
What factors, features and options make for a positive travel experience for young people?
Transport Policy: Consumer sovereignty in British public transport markets, a comparison of the deregulated bus market and the regulated rail market.
Smart cities: metrics for evaluating the urban morphology of built environments.
Health economic assessment of cycling in the Tweed Valley – can the higher than average cycling participation rates in this community be used as a model for other communities?
The physiological and immunological responses to aerobic and resistance exercise by means of electric assisted cycling in older adults.
Dynamic analysis of the railway bridges in the UK under the passage of the high-speed train and development of the Serviceability Limit State introducing Fluid Viscous Dampers (FVD).
Improving cycling infrastructure: harnessing geospatial data to improve asset management and maintenance.
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