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Research Associate in Transport Studies Centre for Transport Studies Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London Salary in the range £25,310 to £36,880 per annum Fixed term appointment for 30 months in the first instance We are seeking a Research Associate to work on the FREEFLOW project. The aim of this project is to develop new forms of decision support tools for transport network managers and individual travellers and to demonstrate the application of these techniques in a number of case studies in London, York and Kent. The FREEFLOW project involves collaboration between Imperial College London, the University of York and Loughborough University, local authorities including Transport for London, the City of York Council, Kent County Council and the Highways Agency, and a number of industrial partners including ACIS, Kizoom, Mindsheet, QinetiQ and Trakm8. The project is funded jointly by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Department for Transport and the Technology Strategy Board. A Research Associate is required to coordinate the demonstration activities being undertaken in London, York and Kent and to contribute to the development of decision support tools. The work will involve the detailed planning of the deployment of the FREEFLOW technologies in each area, the design of data collection plans and the supervision of data collection and the assurance of data quality standards. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to contribute to the development and implementation of decision support tools for network state estimation and prediction and for control strategy selection, in collaboration with relevant other researchers. The work will be undertaken under the supervision of Professor John Polak and in close liaison with a number of other post doctoral researchers, PhD students and external collaborators. Applicants should be qualified to doctoral level (or equivalent) in a relevant aspect of transport network modelling, have experience of the planning management and execution of transport and traffic data collection and be familiar with modern statistical computing techniques. Further details about the post and an application form can be found at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment/research/en20080105. To apply, please email completed application forms together with a current CV to: Professor John Polak Centre for Transport Studies Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ E-mail: [log in to unmask] www.imperial.ac.uk/cts Closing date for applications is 29 May 2008 Valuing diversity and committed to equality of opportunity. -- 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 www.imperial.ac.uk/cts