Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department of Architecture, Building and Planning
Job description
Project description
This goal of this project is to better understand the dynamics of recreation in time and space, under the current general contextual conditions. It will examine the process of activity-generation and adjustment, from a lifetime perspective and how this dynamic agenda is executed across years, seasons, weeks and scheduled with other activities in time and space. Conceptually, commonly used utility-maximizing principles will be supplemented by concepts such as variety-seeking and lifetime utility.
Research approach
In addition to the existing data such as TBO, additional data will be collected for a retrospective sample of individuals and households of different composition about factors influencing their leisure/recreational activities and their actual behavior. The survey will use different formats:
- Qualitative research and retrospective questions will be used to collect data about the history of recreational leisure activities and the evolution of their agenda.
- Next, a series of questions will be asked about the scheduling of these activities. In particular, a diary approach will be adopted. In addition, scheduling experiments with different constraints will be used to examine the underlying scheduling principles. These data concern type of activity, destination, timing and duration and travel party.
- Assuming that transport mode depends on the kind of trip (short trip, vacation etc) and the supply side is now rapidly increasing (different airports, many with better accessibility than Schiphol), TGV, low costs bus providers, we will apply a stated choice experiment on the subproblem how the choice of transport mode for these various types of activities depends on airport/kind of airline, accessibility, costs, ease of parking, timing etc.
Data on all covariates will be collected as part of these surveys. By asking respondents about their post code, data fusion can be used to link these data to available data on spatial characteristics and transportation.
State of the art discrete choice analysis and artificial intelligence algorithms will be applied to analyze the data.
Required education/skills:University Graduate
The candidate should possess a master degree and a good background in research methods and statistical analyses.
Further requirements:
- Demonstrated interest in scientific research
- Proficiency in English writing and speaking
- Highly motivated to conduct academic research
- Team spirit
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers
Organization
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Department of Architecture, Building and Planning
The Department offers a BSc in Building Science (Bouwkunde) and MSc programmes in Architecture, Building and Planning, Building Services and Construction Management and Engineering. Research is design and application oriented, based on fundamental scientific insights and methods.
Conditions of employmentEstimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 jaar
Maximum hours per week: 40
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
Prof.dr. Harry Timmermans
Telephone number: 31(0)402472274
Or additional information can be obtained through the following link:Application
You can apply for this job before 01-11-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
VRT 2.09
F. van der Heijden
Postbus 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
Nederland
E-mail: bwspo@tue.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber V38.541.
