CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR A PHD POSITION

Subject:

Optimizing the mobility of goods in cities: Urban integration and intermodal potential (Optimizing Mobility of Goods in Cities: Urban Integration and Intermodal Potential).

 

Thesis subject description:

Eight major challenges characterize our urban landscapes and can even influence habitus in its sociological sense as highlighted by Norbert Elias.

From the current global situation prevailing at the level of cities and metropolises, various trends affecting urban logistics arise through a new operational framework: the increase in B2C deliveries involving, among other things, shared mobility schemes, door-to-door services, multimodality and customer-centered systems that can exacerbate tensions on urban space which cannot expand indefinitely.

As part of this doctoral thesis, the aim will be to model freight transport starting from the case of Casablanca to grasp its dynamics, better understand the interactions and imagine intelligent, connected, economically efficient and environmentally viable urban logistics solutions calling for shared means of transport, dual use, the use of clean vectors and recoursing to perfectly integrated intermodality.

The objective of this research will be to define the intrinsic characteristics of urban logistics optimization problems, in order to reach a better understanding of these challenges, and to be able to propose an intelligent transport system based on robust and efficient optimization algorithms.

 

Keywords:

Urban Logistics, Externalities, Congestion, Systems Thinking & System Dynamics, Traffic Models and Simulations, Financing Models, MCDM.

 

Profile and skills sought:

• Industrial engineering graduate with solid knowledge in operations research (optimization, simulation and algorithms) and programming.

OR

• Holder of a scientific master oriented towards computer science/artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, econometrics, statistics.
• Clear interest in transport and logistics.
• Autonomous, analytical and critical thinking.
• Very good level of French and good level of English both spoken and written.

Thesis supervisors:

Professor Mouhsene FRI & Professor Othmane BENMOUSSA

 

 Deadline for submitting applications: November 4, 2022