PhD in Transport Engineering

We are looking for a highly motivated and curious PhD candidate to contribute to the next generation of real-time, AI-driven decision support for multimodal construction logistics./nThe successful candidate will join the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) section of the High-tech Business & Entrepreneurship (HBE) department at the University of Twente and will be in collaboration with Pervasive Systems Research Group at EEMCS Faculty./nThis PhD position is part of the MULTIPLIER project, a large cross-disciplinary initiative addressing one of the key challenges of the Dutch construction transition: scaling prefabricated modular housing while drastically reducing logistics-related emissions./nThe project focuses on end-to-end planning, connecting prefab factory production schedules with urban construction projects through an AI-driven decision-support system that synchronises production planning, IWT capacity, terminal availability, and urban delivery constraints.