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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
Travel Time
Netherlands
Time
Smartphones
Travel
Demand
Demand
Bicycle
Distribution
Weather

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
Thomas, T., La Paix Puello, L., & Geurs, K. (2018). Intrapersonal mode choice variation: Evidence from a four-week smartphone-based travel survey in the Netherlands. Journal of transport geography. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.06.021
Thomas, T., Geurs, K. T., Koolwaaij, J., & Bijlsma, M. E. (2018). Automatic Trip Detection with the Dutch Mobile Mobility Panel: Towards Reliable Multiple-Week Trip Registration for Large Samples. Journal of Urban Technology. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2018.1471874
Fioreze, T., Thomas, T., Huang, B., & van Berkum, E. C. (2018). How employees view smart cycling to work: A regional survey in the Netherlands. Travel behaviour and society. DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2018.04.002
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. Web publication/site
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. DOI: 10.2495/TDI-V1-N2-245-255
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

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Horst - Ring (building no. 21), room Z222
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7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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