This PhD project focuses on understanding people’s subjective valuations of multimodal travel and activities to support more inclusive and sustainable mobility planning. The research aims to develop a conceptual-practical framework for evaluating and estimating perceived multimodal accessibility across various modes, including active travel, private motorized transport, and public transit. Additionally, it will implement visual-mapping strategies to effectively represent perceived accessibility and collaborate with practitioners and stakeholders to integrate these perceptions into real-world land use and transport planning practices. The expected outcomes include a robust framework for incorporating perceived accessibility into planning processes and user-friendly visual tools to aid planners, geographers, civil engineers, and architects in designing sustainable and accessible urban environments.
Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) is a research and educational institute affiliated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Zaragoza (UZ). Specialized in logistics and supply chain management, including a research group in transport networks and urban mobility, ZLC is the Spanish centre of the MIT Global SCALE Network, an international alliance of 6 leading research centres dedicated to the development of supply chain excellence through innovation.
Requirements to be admitted in the doctoral programme can be consulted here.
Dr. Aldo Arranz-López is an experienced researcher specialized in the analysis of the links between ICT and travel behaviour, the social and spatial effects of transport accessibility, and subjective valuations of land use and transportation systems. His research employs advanced quantitative methods and spatial analysis techniques to explore these topics, contributing to over 50 publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. He has supervised more than 12 master's theses and currently supervises two PhD students at the University of Zaragoza and the Technical University of Madrid.
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