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Call for applications: 12 Ph.D. positions available

At the Research Training Group SocialCars jointly hosted at Technischen Universität Braunschweig, Technische Universität Clausthal and Leibniz Universität Hannover are 12 Ph.D. positions available.

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Current Openings: 2 Doctoral Researchers

The Research Training Group SocialCars funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) jointly award two full scholarships for doctoral studies in the domains of Route Choice, Parking Space Management, Accident Modelling, Traffic Management, Vehicular Communications and Ridesharing.

 

Closing date for applications: 05.11.2019

 

Further information can be found here.

Two New Doctoral Candidates With SocialCars

We are pleased to welcome Mariana Batista and Vinu Kamalasanan as doctoral candidates to the team of SocialCars. Both have been awarded a scholarship by the DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme and will receive funding for a period of up to four years.

6th retreat SocialCars

From September 9 to September 10, 2019 the sixth retreat of SocialCars took place at "Internationales Haus Sonnenberg", Sankt Andreasberg.

 

Team-2019

86th place in Public Authority Relay Marathon

On September 4th the annual Public Authority Relay Marathon took place in Braunschweig. In total 113 relays started this year. At the end of the day our SocialCars team took the 86th place with a total time of 03:48:24 hours. Congratulations!

 

Ph.D. defense Madlen Ringhand

What? "Factors influencing drivers‘ urban route choice" (the presentation will be given in German)

When? 21 February 2019, 9:00 a.m.

Where? Seminar room (2nd floor), Institute of Psychology, Department of Engineering and Traffic Psychology, Gaußstraße 23, Braunschweig

New Doctoral Candidate with SocialCars

We are pleased to welcome Hekmat Dabbas as doctoral candidate to the team of SocialCars!

5th retreat SocialCars

From September 27 to September 28, 2018 the fifth retreat of SocialCars took place at the "Benediktinerkloster Huysburg".

 

Team-2018

60th place in Public Authority Relay Marathon

On August 15th the annual Public Authority Relay Marathon took place in Braunschweig. In total 110 relays started this year. At the end of the day our SocialCars-Team took the 60th place with a time of 03:31:53 hours. Congratualtion!

 

Congratulations: Best Paper Award at AGILE Conference for Hao Cheng

Hao Cheng received the best paper award of the AGILE conference - the most prestiguous GIS conference in Europe.

Hao Chen received the best paper award of the AGILE conference for his paper: H. Cheng and M. Sester (2018): Mixed traffic trajectory prediction using LSTM–based models in shared space, 21st AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2018; Lund; Sweden, Volume part F3, 2018, Pages 309-32.