Petr Senk

Petr Senk

Traffic Engineer (Trainee)

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager Professional Services at PTV Group

  • Education

    • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering

      2006 - 2009
      Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Travel Behavior Analysis

      Dissertation title: "Travel choices under microscope: process oriented analysis of decision making"Supervisors: Ryuichi Kitamura, Satoshi FujiiMain subjects: Econometrics, transportation planning, travel behavior analysis

    • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering

      2006 - 2006
      Research Student Travel Behavior Analysis
    • Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

      2001 - 2002
      Short Term Exchange Program

      Main subjects: Research methods, Japanese language

    • Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences

      1999 - 2005
      Master of Science (MSc) Management and Economics of Transportation and Telecommunications

      Thesis title: "Influence of uncertainty related to extraordinary events on deliveries in JIT systems"Main subjects: Transportation economics, logistics and operational research

  • Experience

    • Meath County Council

      Jun 2004 - Sept 2004
      Traffic Engineer (Trainee)

      Traffic survey, capacity estimation in OSCADY and PICADY, and final junction design in AutoCAD.

    • T.RAD Czech, s.r.o.

      Dec 2004 - Aug 2005
      Production Planning and Logistics

      Design and implementation of internal logistics in a newly build factory.Interpretation from/to Japanese language.​

    • Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile Czech (TPCA)

      Sept 2005 - Mar 2006
      Interpreter from/to Japanese Language

      Interpretation and translation (Czech/Japanese/English) in departments of Production and Logistics

    • CDV - Transport Research Centre

      Sept 2009 - Jun 2016

      Management of Division of Human Factors in Transport and Transport Modeling (incl. strategic management, project supervision and expert work)Successful setting of new economically self-sustaining SBU with research program on human factors in transport and transport modeling (20 employees - researchers, experts and staff)Responsibility for prominent strategic consulting projects supervised by JASPERS (EIB)Direct involvement in transport modeling - responsibility for design and parameter estimation of advanced discrete choice modelsMethodological design, execution and processing of large scale household travel survey (10K households) Show less Management of Department of Travel Behavior Analysis and Transport Modeling​ (incl. project management and expert work)Establishment of new research program on travel behavior analysis and transport modeling.Principal investigator of 2 EU level and 5 national level R&D projects, and one project on education and training in transport modeling.Technical supervision on consulting projects (e.g. design of traffic microsimulation model of network with several signal junctions)Recruitment, training and supervision of growing team of travel behavior analysts and transport modelers​. Show less Research in the field of Travel behavior analysis and transport modelling.Application of econometric models in R&D and consulting projects related to:- road infrastructure projects evaluation (estimation of VTTS for leisure activities)- road safety (accident prediction modeling using negative binomial model)- travel behavior analysis (mobility and safety of ageing population using discrete choice models)Results were published in research journals and presented at conferences.​ Show less

      • Division Director

        Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
      • Division Director

        Jan 2013 - Jun 2016
      • Department Head

        Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
      • Senior Researcher

        Sept 2009 - Dec 2011
    • AFIM (Association for Infrastructure Financing for Mobility)

      Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
      Senior Transport Planner

      Consulting on transport planning of high speed rail systems.

    • PTV Group

      Nov 2016 - now

      Driving the transition from consulting to SaaS business modelProject portfolio management, incl. quality assurance and reportingTeam management (project managers, transport modelers and data analysts)Pre-Sales support, customer needs analysis and solution design Design and implementation of internal Project Quality Management SystemQuality assurance of complex and innovative projects (urban air mobility, real-time traffic management) Management of large scale passenger and freight transport modelling projects with international project teams (PTV VISUM)Project management and setup of real-time traffic monitoring and forecasting models (PTV Optima)Demand models for new mobility solutions (PTV MaaS Modeller)Validation and audits of strategic transport modelsDevelopment of VBA and Python based tools for PTV VISUM

      • Manager Professional Services

        Mar 2020 - now
      • Program Manager / Global Project Manager

        Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
      • Senior Transport Modeller / Project Manager

        Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Vision Traffic Suite Course - Creating a macroscopic 4 step transport model with PTV Visum (Certificate of Attendance)

      PTV Group
    • PTV Visum Course - Introduction to macroscopic network modelling with PTV Visum (Certificate of Attendance)

      PTV Group
    • PTV Visum Course - Introduction to modelling public transport with PTV Visum (Certificate of Attendance)

      PTV Group
    • MATSim Tutorial (Certificate of Attendance)

      Technische Universität Berlin
    • Advanced course on Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares (Certificate of Attendance)

      EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
    • Prince2 Foundation in Project Management

      APMG International
      Mar 2012
    • Courses on Logistic regression, Classification trees, Cluster analysis, Discriminant analysis, Neural neworks and Multidimensional scaling (Certificate of Attendance)

      SPSS CR