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.

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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
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