dr. T. Thomas (Tom)

Tom was born in the beautiful city of The Hague in 1972. There, he also finished high-school. From 1991 -1997 he studied Astronomy at the University of Leiden. He got his master degree in 1997, after which he did a Ph. D. in Astronomy at the same university. He successfully defended his thesis: ‘The influence of the cluster environment on galaxies’ in 2002. After some in between jobs, he started to work at CTS from january 2006. First as postdoc, and now as assistant professor. His topics of interest are travel behavior, modeling traffic flows, and developing algoritms for the predicition of travel times.Dr. Tom Thomas

In his spare time, Tom likes to play tennis and football. He listens to all kinds of music, and now and then he writes essays about political issues. To relax and think in free-flow, he loves to make long walks and cycling trips in nature.

Professional experience

2008 - present Assistant Professor, Centre for Transport Studies, University of Twente
2006 - 2007 Post-doctoral researcher, Centre for Transport Studies, University of Twente
2003 - 2004 Advisor, Apollon
1997 - 2002 PhD Candidate in Astronomy, Leiden Universiteit: "The influence of the cluster environment on galaxies"

Education

1997 Masteropleiding Astronomie, Leiden Universiteit

Social Sciences

# Netherlands
# Travel

Business & Economics

# Apps
# Choice Behavior
# Route Choice
# The Netherlands
# Travel Time

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Travel Time

Travel behaviour and travel demand forecasting
ATMO – Advanced Traffic Monitoring (Transumo)
ATMA–MODeRN – Advanced Traffic Management – Multi Objective Decision aid for Regional Management (Transumo)

Akse, R. , Thomas, T. , & Geurs, K. (2021). Mobility and accessibility paradigms in Dutch policies: An empirical analysis. Journal of transport and land use, 14(1), 1317–1340. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.2097

Nelson, A. D. , de By, R. A. , Thomas, T. , Girgin, S. , Brussel, M. J. G. , Venus, V. , & Ohuru, R. (2021). The resilience of domestic transport networks in the context of food security: A multi-country analysis. (FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study; No. 14). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7757en

Thomas, T. , Huang, B., Groenewolt, B. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2021). Smartphone challenges to stimulate cycling: clues from a living lab in Enschede. In M. N. Mladenovic, T. Toivonen, E. Willberg, & K. T. Geurs (Eds.), Transport in Human Scale Cities (pp. 121 – 131). (NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research). NECTAR. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370517.00020

Huang, B. , Thomas, T., Groenewolt, B., Claasen, Y. , & Berkum, E. (2021). Effectiveness of incentives offered by mobile phone app to encourage cycling: A long‐term study. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 15(3), 406-422. https://doi.org/10.1049/itr2.12034

Claasen, Y. , Geurs, K. , Thomas, T., & Derksen, M. (2020). Potentiële effecten van mobiliteitshubs op autobezit in en rond steden. Verkeerskunde, 71(5), 19. https://www.verkeerskunde.nl/52020mobiliteitshubs

Huang, B. (2020). The influence of interventions on cycling. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789055842810

van Essen, M. , Thomas, T., Chorus, C. , & van Berkum, E. (2019). The effect of travel time information on day-to-day route choice behaviour: evidence from a real-world experiment. Transportmetrica B, 7(1), 1719-1742. https://doi.org/10.1080/21680566.2019.1699198

Thomas, T., Groenewolt, B., & Bijlsma, M. (2019). Hoe krijgen we mensen vaker op de fiets? Aanwijzingen uit een Living Lab-studie met de SMART app in Enschede. Verkeerskunde.

Huang, B. , Thomas, T., Groenewolt, B. , Fioreze, T. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2019). How to use smartphone apps to encourage cycling: Clues from a Living Lab with SMART in Enschede. Paper presented at 13th ITS European Congress 2019, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

van Essen, M. , Eikenbroek, O. , Thomas, T. , & van Berkum, E. (2019). Travelers' Compliance With Social Routing Advice: Impacts on Road Network Performance and Equity. IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems, 21(3), 1180-1190. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2903173

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.