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dr. T. Thomas (Tom)

Assistant Professor

About Me

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

Expertise

Travel Time
Commuting
Travel Time
Smartphones
Bicycles
Weather
Data
Incident
Indifference
Indicator
Dvd
Distribution Functions
Monitoring
Effect
Crisis
Equity
Huns
Outlier
Parameterization
Cell Phone
Model
Trend
Case Study
Man
Maar
Netherlands
Distribution
Matrix
Prediction
Mate
Experiment
System

Organizations

Research

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

Publications

Recent Articles
Zhang, Y., Brussel, M. J. G., Thomas, T., & van Maarseveen, M. F. A. M. (2018). Mining bike-sharing travel behavior data: An investigation into trip chains and transition activities. Computers, environment and urban systems, 69, 39-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.12.004
Thomas, T. (Author), & Fioreze, T. (Author). (2017). Twentse werknemers geven inzicht in effect positieve prikkels De potentie van positief stimuleren van fietsgebruik.
Huang, B., Fioreze, T., Thomas, T., & van Berkum, E. C. (2017). Cycle2Work: An Empirical Study on Potential Personalised Rewarding Schemes Delivered via Smartphone Technologies. Paper presented at 12th European Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITS 2017, Strasbourg, France.
Zhang, Y., Thomas, T., Brussel, M. J. G., & van Maarseveen, M. F. A. M. (2017). Exploring the impact of built environment factors on the use of public bikes at bike stations : case study in Zhongshan, China. Journal of transport geography, 58, 59-70. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.11.014
Zhang, Y., Thomas, T., Brussel, M. J. G., & van Maarseveen, M. F. A. M. (2017). The characteristics of bike-sharing usage : case study in Zhongshan, China. International journal of transport development and integration, 1(2), 245-255.
Zhang, Y., Thomas, T., Brussel, M. J. G., & van Maarseveen, M. F. A. M. (2016). Expanding bicycle-sharing systems : lessons learnt from an analysis of usage. PLoS ONE, 11(12), -. [e0168604]. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168604
van Essen, M. A., Thomas, T., van Berkum, E. C., & Chorus, C. (2016). From user equilibrium to system optimum: a literature review on the role of travel information, bounded rationality and non-selfish behaviour at the network and individual levels. Transport reviews, 30(4), 527-548. DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2015.1125399
Veenstra, S., Geurs, K. T., Thomas, T., & van den Hof, R. (2016). Alle lichten op groen voor fietsmonitoring in Enschede. -.
van Essen, M., Thomas, T., Chorus, C., & van Berkum, E. C. (2016). Role of Travel Time Information on Day-to-Day Route Choice Behavior Based on Real-World Experiments. In Proceedings of The 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Board, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 January 2016 (pp. 1-20). Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board (TRB).
Thomas, T., & Tutert, B. (2015). Route choice behavior in a radial structured urban network: Do people choose the orbital or the route through the city center?Journal of transport geography, 48, 85-95. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.08.013

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7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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