Traffic Modeller (f/m/d) - Simulation of active Mobility (cycling and walking) (Berlin) bei Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Enter the fascinating world of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; DLR) and help shape the future through research and innovation! We offer an exciting and inspiring working environment driven by the expertise and curiosity of our 11,000 employees from 100 nations and our unique infrastructure. Together, we develop sustainable technologies and thus contribute to finding solutions to global challenges. Would you like to join us in addressing this major future challenge? Then this is your place!

At the DLR Institute of Transport Research, we are shaping the mobility of the future. To this end, we are developing economically viable solutions that are socially fair and climate-friendly. For this purpose, we develop means of transport, transport services and spaces for transport to meet the demands of personal mobility and the needs of production and trade.

What to expect

In the Transport Markets and Services department, we analyze mobility markets and develop needs-based and user-oriented transport services for people and goods. You will join the “Public Transport and Intermodal Services” team, which researches the design of mobility services, taking into account the acceptance and preferences of potential users.

At the same time, you will be part of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) “Data-driven agile planning for responsible mobility” (AgiMo), an interdisciplinary research center in which we will develop a completely new set of consistent scientific methods for mobility planning and management, including an open-data “AgiMo Digital Twin” to support a wide range of mobility planning tasks.

Within the DFG Collaborative Research Center AgiMo, you will work on the topic “Advancing agent-based transportation models to better represent active mobility” with the aim at improving the representation of bicycle and pedestrian traffic in the agent-based transport simulation MATSim (www.matsim.org). You will have the opportunity to work on a doctoral thesis on this topic. In doing so, you will contribute to the realistic representation of planning measures related to active mobility in the AgiMo Digital Twin and the assessment of their effects. To this end, you will integrate a wide variety of data (preferably open data) and expand components of the MATSim transport simulation in order to describe the diverse travel behavior of active mobility users in a realistic way. Your enthusiasm for mobility data and simulation models will help you to implement these tasks so that you can apply the methods you have developed in realistic scenarios for larger regions.

Your tasks

• Cooperative scientific research within the scope of the project “Advancing agent-based transport models to better represent active mobility” for the development of agent-based traffic simulation models for cycling and walking
• Familiarization with the methodological, conceptual, and technical fundamentals of the simulation environment to be expanded and support in the development of new simulation approaches
• Working on a doctoral project on agent-based simulation of active mobility in close collaboration with other members of the Collaborative Research Center and their supervisors. The position serves to prepare for the doctorate, with the aim of extending it by approximately two years to complete the doctorate.
• Implementation of the planned research program, evaluation and interpretation of the results, elaboration and presentation of the research findings
• Participation in workshops and summer schools in accordance with the guidelines of the integrated graduate college
• Support for scientific theses (bachelor's/master's/diploma) in the subject-specific research area and supervision of interns and student assistants
• Regular reporting on research progress to the supervisors of the doctoral project and publication of the results in scientific journals and conferences

Your profile

• Completed academic university degree (master's or university diploma) related to transportation (e.g., transportation planning, transportation engineering) or other relevant studies
• Basic knowledge of agent-based transport modeling and simulation (especially MATSim) and a keen interest in expanding this knowledge
• Good knowledge of working with various forms of mobility data and basic knowledge of interfaces for (automated) data extraction
• Knowledge of planning and current developments in the field of active mobility (especially cycling and walking)
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming (preferably Java) and an interest in expanding this knowledge, as well as knowledge of a scripting language for data analysis (e.g., R or Python) and an interest in expanding this knowledge
• Very good written and spoken English (C1) and good knowledge of German (B2)
• Very good communication and teamwork skills and interest in working in interdisciplinary teams

Remuneration is up to the German TVöD 13 depending on qualifications and assigned tasks.

If you have any questions about this position (Vacancy-ID 2747) please contact:

Dr. Dominik Ziemke 
Tel.: +49 30 67055 730