Post-Doctoral Researcher at the project "Improved urban mobility toward climate neutrality under new working habits and transport modes"
The job holder will participate in an international research project entitled "Improved urban mobility toward climate neutrality under new working habits and transport modes." The consortium includes institutions from Europe and China. The leader on the European side is Professor Klaus Hubacek of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, the leader on the Chinese side is Professor Yue Bao 鲍月 of Beijing Jiaotong University. The consortium also includes Tsinghua University, Beijing Transport Institute and Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU). The project manager on behalf of AMU is Prof. Aleksandra Lis-Plesinska.
Project objectives:
- understand residents' choices of working time, location choice and related travel behavior, taking into account the changing work habits caused by social change in the Chinese and European contexts;
- examine the efficiency and equity of new transportation services and their role in residents' working time and location choices;
- develop a near real-time emissions accounting framework for residents' transportation and estimate emissions associated with changing work habits and new transportation services;
- design an efficient and climate-neutral multimodal urban traffic system taking into account new transportation services and work habits;
- develop and test a personal carbon trading system for urban mobility, based on the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) model, to reduce congestion and emissions.
The research will be conducted in two European cities, Groningen and Poznan, and in China, Beijing.
The person hired will primarily take part in the tasks carried out under one work package WP4: Designing an efficient and climate-neutral multimodal urban traffic system taking into account new transport services and working habits. He will also take part in the elaboration of the material collected during the research carried out in the other work packages on new trends related to working time and the first part of the experiment, which consisted in testing with the citizens of the city of Poznan the possibility of changing their transport habits to more ecological ones.
As part of WP4, the post-doctoral researcher will take part in research that involves the city of Poznan and will be responsible for co-designing and organising a “serious game” simulation game involving representatives of the city of Poznan and urban mobility service providers, with the aim of negotiating a framework for the creation of a MaaS (Mobility as a Service) system for the city of Poznan. The job holder will lead up to publication the text of at least one scientific article submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal. He/she will co-author conference papers, scientific articles and recommendations for city policy makers.
The post-doctoral researcher’s tasks will also include administrative cooperation with the Service Office of the Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at UAM.
