PhD student - Passenger behavioural response to planned railway maintenance disruptions

Job description As contribution to this project, the doctoral candidate will aim to: Review the literature on the impact of railway disruptions on passenger response (short and long term) Develop (longitudinal) revealed preference surveys and stated preference experiments Model stated and observed passenger response and obtain elasticities for the various effects of maintenance disruption on rail service quality Develop a methodology to assess the long-term impacts of experienced disruptions on trust and reputation of the railway operator and concurrent effect on public support for railway investment Regularly interact with the other research groups to align research outcomes In addition to contributing to this research project, we are looking for a candidate who can: Participate in (ongoing) research projects and support the acquisition of new research projects Contribute to teaching and examinations Successfully author research papers in high-impact research journals and will successfully author and defend a doctoral dissertation on the main research project

Job description

As contribution to this project, the doctoral candidate will aim to: Review the literature on the impact of railway disruptions on passenger response (short and long term) Develop (longitudinal) revealed preference surveys and stated preference experiments Model stated and observed passenger response and obtain elasticities for the various effects of maintenance disruption on rail service quality Develop a methodology to assess the long-term impacts of experienced disruptions on trust and reputation of the railway operator and concurrent effect on public support for railway investment Regularly interact with the other research groups to align research outcomes In addition to contributing to this research project, we are looking for a candidate who can: Participate in (ongoing) research projects and support the acquisition of new research projects Contribute to teaching and examinations Successfully author research papers in high-impact research journals and will successfully author and defend a doctoral dissertation on the main research project

As contribution to this project, the doctoral candidate will aim to:

• Review the literature on the impact of railway disruptions on passenger response (short and long term)
• Develop (longitudinal) revealed preference surveys and stated preference experiments
• Model stated and observed passenger response and obtain elasticities for the various effects of maintenance disruption on rail service quality
• Develop a methodology to assess the long-term impacts of experienced disruptions on trust and reputation of the railway operator and concurrent effect on public support for railway investment
• Regularly interact with the other research groups to align research outcomes

In addition to contributing to this research project, we are looking for a candidate who can:

• Participate in (ongoing) research projects and support the acquisition of new research projects
• Contribute to teaching and examinations
• Successfully author research papers in high-impact research journals and will successfully author and defend a doctoral dissertation on the main research project