Dear all,Institute for Transport Studies is inviting applications for a fully-funded PhD in "Ownership and mobility services in an automated vehicle environment, and its impact on energy use, carbon emissions and distributional equity" for the October 2019 start date. Deadline for application is January 31, 2019. Detail about the project and application process is available below:https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/research-opportunity/19/research-degrees/1139/ownership-and-mobility-services-in-an-automated-vehicle-environment-and-its-impact-on-energy-use-carbon-emissions-and-distributional-equity-epsrc-dtp
Please contact me directly if you wanted to discuss the project informally. Regards,Zia
Project description
One of the largest uncertainties inmodelling the implications (including energy) of automated vehicles is how farthe existing vehicle ownership will be replaced by automated mobility services.Although there is a large media hype toward a near total switch to automatedelectric mobility services, early work (by the supervisor) points out to thelimitations of the few existing studies and indicates that this may not be thecase.Even within automated mobilityservices there are options between exclusive use and shared use, which havedifferent implication for traffic and energy consumption. This project willinvestigate these various potential modes (ownership, automated ridehailing,automated ridesharing), and their potential relative share in future. This willthen be used to calculate potential energy, carbon and distributionalimplications of automated vehicles.Depending on the student’s interest and expertise,various methods may be used including data analysis and visualization,rule-based heuristics, econometric modelling, qualitative methods such focusgroup study. However, there will remain a strong quantitative component.
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Zia Wadud, PhD DIC
Associate Professor
Centre for Integrated Energy Research (CIER),
Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), & School of
Chemical and Process Engineering (SCAPE)
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Tel. +44 113 343 7733
Skype. ziawadud&Honorary Sectretary, UTSG www.utsg.net
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Recent publications:Personal carbon trading: Tradeoff between in-home andtransport related emissions, Ecological Economics, 156 (2019) *New*Modelling energy demand from higher education institutionsusing a hybrid panel model: A case study of the UK, Appleid Energy, 233-234(2019) *New*The smart grid as commons: Exploring alternatives toinfrastructure financialisation, Urban Studies (2018)Congestion impacts of shopping using vehicle tracking data,J. Transport Geography, 70 (2018)Vulnerability to fuel price increases in the UK: Ahouseholdlevel analysis, Transportation Research Part A, 113 (2018)Totalcost of ownership and market share of hybrid and electric vehicles in the UK,US and Japan, Applied Energy, 209 (2018) *Most downloaded* covered in GuardianFully automated vehicles: A cost of ownership analysis toinform early adoption, Transportation Research Part A, 101 (2017) *Most downloaded* Help or hindrance? Travel, energy and carbon impacts ofhighly automated vehicles, Transportation Research Part A, 86 (2016) *Mostcited+downloaded* covered in NYTimes, Times, etc
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