Open Rank - Research Faculty 536917 Blacksburg, Virginia Virginia Tech Transportation Instit Research Faculty Vice President for Research Job Description The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) conducts research to save lives, time, and money and protect the environment. As one of six premier research institutes created by Virginia Tech to answer national challenges, VTTI is continually advancing
transportation through innovation and has affected public policy on national and international levels. This position provides a hands-on opportunity to work with cutting edge vehicle and roadway lighting technologies through systematic deployment and testing. Watch this video to learn more about what it’s like to work at VTTI! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj4VWviw5JA) VTTI seeks a qualified and ambitious
researchers with a strong background in either Engineering/Psychology with Lighting or Visibility specialization and Human Factors experience or Engineering/Statistics with safety analysis and/or transportation safety specialization including but not limited degrees in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Human Factors etc. The ideal candidate is an experienced researcher capable of supporting (as a
research associate) or leading research projects (as a senior research associate) and working collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to improve transportation safety through cutting edge research. This position independently plans, schedules, conducts, or coordinates detailed tasks as part of major transportation lighting and infrastructure safety projects. Work performed involves engineering practice but may
include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials, and difficult coordination requirements. The ideal candidate will contribute to research conceptualization, proposal development, and resource acquisition as well as interact with sponsors, interprets findings, prepare reports, and present results. Work will be tailored to the experience of the
candidate but will primarily focus on transportation safety projects that include lighting, visibility, signaling, signage, traffic safety, accident databases, safety modeling (including safety performance functions and crash mitigation factors), roadway design, intersection and pedestrian safety, traffic control/operation devices, driver behavior, traffic theory and human factors. Work requires a broad knowledge of
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