Supervisor: Prof. Johan W. Joubert ([email protected])

Description:

When we are mobile, we can access services and participate in activities: work,study, leisure and shopping, amongst others. Our goal in the MOB-ility team is to develop a model, a "digital twin” of cities that captures the multi-modal transportation system - both passenger and freight movement on public and private transport modes. This long-term goal requires coding and testing of functionality in the MATSim open-source software, capturing and updating GTFS data for public transit services (including the UP campus transport), and studyingSouth African travel behaviour and transport policy decision-making. We also evaluate the emissions generated by transport.

Recruitment wish list:

• Programming capability is essential

• An interest in data mining/analysis/processing (i.e. data science)

• Competence in R and Java is beneficial

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