PhD Thesis "Transport Modelling for Sustainable Mobility"

As Austria’s largest research and technology organisation for applied research, we are dedicated to make substantial contributions to solving the major challenges of our time, climate change and digitisation. To achieve our goals, we rely on our specific research, development and technology competencies, which are the basis of our commitment to excellence in all areas. With our open culture of innovation and our motivated, international teams, we are working to position AIT as Austria’s leading research institution at the highest international level and to make a positive contribution to the economy and society.

Our Competence Unit ’ Digital Resilient Cities ’ , part of our Center for Energy located in Vienna invites applications for a PhD Thesis position . The Competence Unit "Digital Resilient Cities" supports cities and their stakeholders in the cross-sectoral transformation process, combining expertise in climate, energy, mobility, and urban planning. With the aim of creating climate-neutral, competitive, and sustainable living spaces, we develop and integrate state-of-the-art evidence-based analysis and simulation tools for sustainable transportation, systemic urban transformation, as well as for the concrete planning and management of neighborhood and building solutions.

As part of our mission to develop smart solutions to tackle the climate change, we have launched a PhD program with TU Munich - Hereby we offer a PhD Thesis focusing on the topic of Macroscopic Modelling for Sustainable Transportation . Our main goal is to further develop and apply the agent-based simulation framework MATSim. The existing MATSim model will be improved and become better applicable in predicting multiple policy interventions.