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Doctoral Position in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft University, Netherlands

Study Subject(s): Robust & Resilient Railway Timetables
Course Level: PhD
Scholarship Provider: EU 7th Framework Programme
Scholarship can be taken at: Netherlands

Eligibility:
The applicant should have a Master’s degree in civil engineering, mathematics, computer science or a related field, and preferably have a strong interest in railway operations, timetabling, and data analysis. Fluency in spoken and written English is an essential requirement.

Scholarship Open for International Students: No

Scholarship Description: The PhD project ‘Robust and resilient railway timetables’ is part of the European project ‘Optimal Networks for Train Integration Management across Europe’ (ON-TIME) funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme. It aims at designing robust and resilient timetables that maximise capacity, ensure fluidity of train movements, and can cope with daily statistical variations in operations and minor perturbations. Essential for generating the timetable are reliable estimates for the process times: running times, dwell times, headway times, etc. These can be determined either by computation or by monitoring train movements in operations, the latter based on track section occupation times or on GPS data. Blocking time diagrams are often used for computing running times and minimum headway times, and the resulting infrastructure capacity occupation.

How to Apply: By electronically

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2012

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