PhD Candidate: Adaptive Mobility Hub Planning for Sustainable Mobility

Mobility hubs (MHs) are expected to support the transition towards a sustainable mobility system. Would you like to improve the knowledge surrounding the potential of MHs? Then you have a part to play as a PhD candidate. Develop your skills as an aspiring researcher and learn new things by working with real-world cases within this exciting research project.

This PhD research aims at improving the knowledge of the potential contribution of MH policies towards a sustainable mobility system. This improved knowledge will provide input for developing a participatory and adaptive approach supporting MH multi-stakeholder decision-making under uncertainty across different geographical scales (local, urban, and regional). The approach aims (1) to develop a conceptual MH framework on decision-making and apply it to cases at different scales (using group model building and shared visioning) to specify problems, goals and MH options, (2) to explore the uncertainty of implementing MH options (applying assumption-based planning) across these scales, and (3) to identify the trade-offs and, given their vulnerabilities and robustness, assess different MH policy options against uncertainties from the previous step to come to integrated transition pathways across scales (using serious gaming). The project will require collaboration on real-world cases with people from practice (e.g. policymakers, service providers and users) Hence, you will be expected to work with practitioners in the field in carrying out your research. You will present your research at international conferences and publish your results in scientific journals. The research should result in a PhD thesis. In addition to research, you will also have some teaching duties (e.g. giving tutorials and/or supervising BSc theses).