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Title: Deriving a Generalized Catchment Area Model including Spatial and Demographic Data Variables

Your tasks:

- You will prepare a thesis about the process of deriving a generalized catchment area model, from published catchment area reports from airports

- Based on a literature review, you will have gathered and understood existing airport catchment area models and approaches and airport's catchment area publications

- Based on published airport catchment area information you will derive a model, e.g. a regression model, for predicting the catchment area for a generic airport based on spatial, demographic, and travel time information

- The resulting and developed methodology are your scientific contribution, while one verification example case showcases the validity of the developed model

- You contribution will be used in state-of-the-art traffic simulations to model airport access and egress behaviour

Your qualifications:

- You are a student in Aviation, Transportation, Geography, Statistics, or a related field

- You are already familiar with writing seminar/term papers or theses

- You enjoy learning or advancing skills, as you will be using statistical language (R), version control (Git), geographic information (QGIS), and scientific document preparation (LaTeX) systems

- Reliability, preciseness, and self-reliance are among your strengths

- You are interested in target-oriented tasks and in working in an interdisciplinary team

- You are a proficient user of the English language

Please send your application via email to: bewerbung@bauhaus-luftfahrt.net and indicate the reference number: 23-9-21.

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