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Tom Brijs, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Hasselt University
Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
Wetenschapspark 5 | bus 6
B-3590 Diepenbeek | BELGIUM
email: tom.brijs@uhasselt.be
 
Tel: +32-11-26.91.55
Fax: +32-11-26.91.99

Current Research Interests

Road safety, Traffic accident modelling, Driving simulation, Driver behavior

Selected Journal Publications  (for the full list of publications click here)

Daniels S., Brijs T., and Keunen D. (2010), Official reporting and newspaper coverage of road crashes: a case study. Accepted: Safety Science, Impact score: 1.220.

 

Daniels S., Brijs T., Nuyts E., and Wets G. (2010), Externality of risk and crash severity at roundabouts. Accepted: Accident Analysis and Prevention. Impact score: 1.963

 

Daniels S., Vanrie J., Dreesen A., and Brijs T. (2010), Additional road markings as an indication of speed limits: results of a field experiment and a driving simulator study. In: Accident Analysis and Prevention. Vol. 42(3), pp. 953-960. Impact score: 1.963

 

Pirdavani, A., Brijs, T., Bellemans, T., and Wets, G. (2010), Evaluation of Traffic Safety at Un-signalized Intersections Using Microsimulation: A Utilization of Proximal Safety Indicators. Forthcoming in: Advances in Transportation Studies.

 

Daniels, S., Brijs, T., Nuyts, E., Wets, G. (2010). Explaining variation in safety performance of roundabouts. In: Accident Analysis and Prevention. Vol. 47(2), pp 393-402.  Impact factor: 1.963

 

Pirdavani, A., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Vanhoof, K. (2010). A multiple criteria decision making approach for prioritizing accident hotspots in the absence of crash data. In: Transport Reviews. Vol. 30(1), pp. 97-113. Impact factor: 0.819

 

Hermans, E., Ruan, D., Brijs, T., Wets, G. (2010), Road Safety Risk Evaluation by means of Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators and Expert Knowledge. In: Knowledge Based Systems. Vol. 23(1), pp. 48-52. Impact factor: 0.924

 

Shen, Y., Li, T., Hermans, E., Ruan, D., Wets, G., Vanhoof, K., Brijs, T. (2009), A hybrid system of neural networks and rough sets for road safety performance indicators. Accepted: Soft Computing – A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications. Impact factor: 0.984

 

Vanlaar, W., Mayhew, D., Marcoux, K., Wets, G., Brijs, T., Shope, J. (2009). An evaluation of graduated driver licensing programs in North America using a metaanalytic approach. In: Accident Analysis and Prevention. Vol. 41(5), pp. 1104-1111. Impact factor: 1.963

 

Sann S., Sok S., Brijs T., and De Jong M. (2009), Sociological analysis of the road safety situation in Cambodia: historical, cultural and political aspects.  In: Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 79, pp. 83-90.

 

Daniels S., Brijs T., Nuyts E., Wets G. (2009). Injury crashes with bicyclists at roundabouts: influence of some location characteristics and the design of cycle facilities. In: Journal of Safety Research. Vol. 40(2), pp. 141-148 Impact score: 0.835.

 

Hermans E., Brijs T., Wets G., and Vanhoof K. (2009), Benchmarking road safety: lessons to learn from a data envelopment analysis. In: Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 41(1), pp. 174-182. Impact score: 1.587

Brijs T., Karlis D., and Wets G. (2008), Studying the effect of weather conditions on daily crash counts using a discrete time series model. In: Accident Analysis and Prevention. Vol. 40(3), pp. 1180-1190. Impact score: 1.587

Zhang L., Chen G., Brijs T., and Zhang X. (2008), Discovering during-temporal patterns (DTPs) in large temporal databases. In: Expert Systems with Applications. Vol. 34(2), pp. 1178-1189. Impact score: 0.957.

Brijs T., Karlis D., Van den Bossche F., and Wets G. (2007), A Bayesian model for ranking hazardous road sites. In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society –series A. Vol 170, pp 1-17. Impact score: 1.075

Vlassenroot S., Broekx S., De Mol J., Brijs T., and Wets G. (2007), Driving with intelligent speed adaptation: final results of the Belgian ISA-trial. In: Transportation Research A. Vol. 41(3), pp. 267-279. Impact score: 1.634.

Van den Bossche F., Wets G., and Brijs T. (2007), Analysis of road risk by age and gender category: time series approach. In: Transportation Research Record. Vol. 2019, pp. 7-14. Impact score: 0.145.

Brijs T., Karlis D., Van den Bossche F., and Wets G. (2006), A model for identifying and ranking dangerous accident locations: a case-study in Flanders. In: Statistica Neerlandica. Vol. 60(4), pp. 457-476. Impact score: 0.623

Brijs T., Wets G., Krimpenfort R., and Offermans C. (2006), The impact of hourly measured speed on accident risk in the Netherlands: results from an exploratory study using GIS. In: Transportation Research Record. Vol. 1972, pp. 85-93. Impact score: 0.145.

Janssens D., Wets G., Brijs T. and Vanhoof K. (2006), Integrating Bayesian Networks and Decision Trees in a Sequential Rule-Based Transportation Model. In: European Journal of Operational Research. Vol. 175, pp. 16-34. Impact score: 0.824.

Janssens D., Brijs T., Vanhoof K. and Wets G. (2006), Evaluating the performance of cost-based discretization versus entropy- and error-based discretization. In: Computers and Operations Research.  Vol. 33(11), pp. 3107-3123. Impact score: 0.746.

Geurts K., Wets G., Brijs T., Vanhoof K., and Karlis D. (2006), Ranking and selecting dangerous crash locations: correcting for the number of passengers and Bayesian ranking plots. In: Journal of Safety Research, Vol. 37(1), pp. 83-91. Impact score: 1.263.

Brijs K., Vanhoof K., Brijs T., and Karlis D. (2006), Using fuzzy set theory to assess country-of-origin effects on the formation of product attitude. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3885, pp. 138-149. ISBN: 3-540-32870-0. Impact score: 0.402.

Janssens D., Wets G., Brijs T. and Vanhoof K. (2005), The development of an adapted Markov chain modelling heuristic and simulation framework in the context of transportation research. In: Expert Systems with Applications. Vol. 28(1), pp. 105-117. Impact score: 1.067.

 

Conference Publications

Shen Y., Hermans E., Brijs T., Ruan D., Wets G., and Vanhoof K. (2010), Road safety evaluation and target setting using data envelopment analysis. Accepted: 15th International Conference on Road Safety on 4 Continents, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), March 28-30, 2010.

Hermans E., Brijs T., and Wets G. (2010), Bringing Structure into Road Safety Evaluation: A Hierarchy of
Indicators. Accepted: 15th International Conference on Road Safety on 4 Continents, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), March 28-30, 2010.

Wilmots B., Hermans E., Brijs T., and Wets G. (2010), Setting up an indicator system for monitoring road safety using the road safety target hierarchy. Accepted: 15th International Conference on Road Safety on 4 Continents, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), March 28-30, 2010.

Shen Y., Hermans E., Ruan D., Wets G., Brijs T., Vanhoof K. (2010), Evaluating trauma management performance in Europe. Accepted: 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Daniels S., Brijs T., Keunen D. (2010), Official reporting and newspaper coverage of road accidents: a case study. Accepted: 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Brijs K., Daniels S., Brijs T., Wets G. (2010), An experimental approach towards the evaluation of a seat belt campaign with an inside view on the psychology behind seat belt use. Accepted: 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Tormans H., Janssens D., Brijs T., Wets G. (2010), Context and development of an instrument for quality assessment and guidance for local road safety policymaking in Flanders. Accepted: 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Pirdavani A., Brijs T., Bellemans T., Wets G. (2010), Multiple criterion decision-making approach for prioritizing accident hotspots in developing countries in the absence of crash data. Accepted: 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Brijs K., Jongen E., Wets G., Brijs T. (2010), Sequential advanced guide signing for work zone related rerouting on highways: the effect of longitudinal location on the driver’s trajectory control. Accepted: 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010.

Pirdavani A., Brijs T., Bellemans T., Wets G. (2009), Evaluation of Traffic Safety at Unsignalized Intersections Using Microsimulation: A Utilization of Proximal Safety Indicators. In: Electronic Proceedings of the Road Safety and Simulation Conference, Paris, France, October 5-7, 2009.

Moons E., Faes C., Brijs T. (2009), Spatial risk assessment in traffic safety on urban roads. In: Proceedings of the 57th International Statistical Institute, Durban, South Africa, August 16-22.

Moons E., Faes C., Brijs T. (2009), Risk assessment in traffic safety. In: Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington D.C., USA, August 1-6, 2009.

Moons E., Faes C., Brijs T. (2009), Spatial modelling of risk in traffic safety on the road network. In: Electronic proceedings of the 37th European Transport Conference, October 5-7, Leeuwenhorst, The Netherlands.

Vanlaar W., Mayhew D., Marcoux K., Wets G., Brijs T., and Shope J. (2009). An evaluation of graduated driver licensing programs in North America using a metaanalytic approach. In: Proceedings of the 35th International Forum on Traffic Records and Highway Information Systems, Phoenix, USA, July 12-16.

Pirdavani A., Brijs T., Bellemans T., Wets G., and Vanhoof K. (2009). Travel Time Evaluation of an innovative U-turn facility on urban arterial roadways. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Urban, Regional Planning and Transportation, Paris, France, June 24.

Shen Y., Hermans E., Ruan D., Wets G., Brijs T., and Vanhoof K. (2009), Road safety performance evaluation based on a multiple layer data envelopment analysis model. In: Proceedings of the 4th IRTAD conference, Seoul, Korea, September 16-17, pp. 315-324.

Wilmots B., Hermans E., Brijs T., and Wets G. (2009), Analyzing road safety indicator data across Europe: describing, explaining and comparing. In: Proceedings of the 4th IRTAD conference, Seoul, Korea, September 16-17, pp. 291-299.

Hermans E., Brijs T., Wets G. (2009), Elaborating an index methodology for creating an overall road safety performance score for a set of countries. In: Proceedings of the 4th IRTAD conference, Seoul, Korea, September 16-17, pp. 172-179.

Hermans E., Brijs T., Wets G., Vanhoof K. (2009). Determining optimal road safety performance scores under weight and orness restrictions. In: Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Conference, Warwick, UK, September 8-10, 2009.

Hermans E., Brijs T., Wets G. (2009), Evaluation of road safety rankings. In: Electronic Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 11-15, 2009.

Daniels S., Vanrie J., Dreesen A., Brijs T. (2009). Additional road markings as an indication of speed limits: results of field experiment and driving simulator study. In: Electronic Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C (USA), January 11-15, 2009.

Daniels S., Brijs T., Nuyts E., and Wets G. (2008). Roundabouts and safety for bicyclists: empirical results and influence of different cycle facility designs. In: Proceedings of the TRB National Roundabout Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, May 18-21 2008.

Brijs T., Karlis D., and Wets G. (2007). Studying the effect of weather conditions on daily crash counts. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Road Safety on Four Continents, Bangkok, Thailand, November 14-16 2007.

Karlis D., Sermaidis G.J., and Brijs T. (2007). Discrete valued time series models for examining weather effects in daily accident counts. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM-2007), Barcelona, Spain, July 2-6 2007, pp. 368-373.

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