WRI India
PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Project Associate - Station Access and Mobility Program,
WRI India
What is WRI?
WRI India, an independent charity legally registered as the
India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals
to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. WRI India’s
mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s
environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of
current and future generations. Through research, analysis, and
recommendations, WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative
solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human
well-being.
We are inspired by and associated with World Resources
Institute (WRI), a global research organization. Currently over 150
researchers are working with WRI India in our offices at Delhi, Mumbai and
Bengaluru.
Program
Overview for Sustainable Cities and Transport
At WRI India Ross Center we focus on 10 integrated solutions to urban
challenges. Through applied research, tools, hands-on advice, and by tapping
our network of global experts, we accelerate transformative urban initiatives
that have the power to change Indian cities into thriving, equitable and
low-carbon places that are good for people and the planet.
Working at WRI India Ross Center offers you the unique
opportunity to learn and grow as you collaborate with a diverse set of change
agents across Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. As India’s biggest urban focused
think and do tank, we seek thoughtful, enterprise-minded and sensitive
individuals who can help us support this transformation and make a positive
difference to citizens’ everyday lives.
What are we Looking
for?
As mass-transit systems aimed at reducing congestion and
pollution, metro rail systems in Indian cities have witnessed considerable
growth over the past decade. However, the success of these highly
capital-intensive projects has been mixed thus far, with several projects
reporting significantly lower ridership levels than initial projections.
Many reasons have been theorised for this disjunction in ridership, not least a
lack of adequate first and last-mile connectivity to the metro. Several
innovations in this sector have aimed to provide economical, fast, safe and
reliable feeder services. Ongoing work by WRI India, such as the Station
Access and Mobility Program (STAMP) Challenge have been aiming to improve
multimodality with the metro at its core through a variety of approaches – from
providing innovative last-mile services a platform to pilot their innovations,
to unlocking the potential of data to provide commuters a more seamless
multimodal experience.
WRI India is looking for a transport analyst to assist with
the STAMP Challenge in a variety of aspects:
- Identifying
appropriate research questions, design and methodology for upcoming STAMP
transport research projects, especially survey-based research;
- Analyses
of extant policies that impact the use of the metro and other public
transport;
- Executing
further editions of the STAMP Challenge and related events;
- Developing
a Toolkit that provides stakeholders a framework to improve metro-based
multimodal connectivity.
An ideal candidate would have a detailed understanding of the transport sector in India, the ability to
