RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 4

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In Spring 2023 the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) was awarded a Stage-1 grant under the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program by the US DOT. The Urban Freight Lab (UFL) supported proposal writing and scoping of the awarded project, titled “Last-mile freight curb access: digitizing the last-mile of urban goods to improve curb access and utilization”, and will further support Stage-1 grant activities and provide key discoveries necessary to build the case for Stage-2 funding.

The Urban Freight Lab also received funding from the National Highway Coorperative Research Program to study Balancing Freight and Goods Delivery Needs in Designing Complete Streets, and the Health Effects Institute to Assess Changes in Exposures and Health Outcomes in Historically Marginalized and Environmentally Overburdened Communities from Air Quality Actions, Programs, or Other Interventions.

This position will support these projects with transportation engineering and statistical expertise.

This role will contribute to overall project progress and lead implementation of methodological components. This role will work closely with the project manager, PI, and students contributing to the projects; participating in project meetings and responding to project communications. This will include corresponding, at times, communicating directly with partners at SDOT, USDOT, HEI, NCHRP and other project collaborators.

This role will work with the PI to identify methodological approaches, and will then implement these methods. They will work with students contributing to the project and interpret results from analyses. They will present these findings in a number of contexts; in oral presentations, in written documents, and other formats as required by project work.

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