Prof. dr. Tom BRIJS
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Prof. dr. Tom BRIJS
Full professor
Prof. dr. Tom BRIJS
Research
Discipline codes: Transport design (02010705), Transport planning (02010706), Intelligent transportation systems (02010701), Operational traffic control and traffic management (02010703), Transportation impact analysis (02010707)
Supervised PhDs
Development and Effect Evaluation of Innovative Methodologies for Improvement of Safe and Eco-friendly Driving Behaviour Through Gamification Among Truck Drivers in Ethiopia
Ehitayhu Mesele Hagos for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Supporting local governments in the use of citizen participation as a tool for proactive detection of dangerous situations
Jana Horemans for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Pedestrian Traffic Crashes in Urban Areas: An Integrated GIS-Based Hotspot Detection and Spatiotemporal Analysis
Solomon Densu for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Road user profiling using multimodal data of naturalistic driving databases
Shi Qiu for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
AI for proactive safety detection using conflict techniques
Nimra Jabeen for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Advancing Digital Twin for Safety Management on Urban and Secondary Roads
Mahdi Sadeqi Bajestani for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Evaluation of Speed Reduction Strategies Through Driving Simulation and Real-World Analysis
Bernard Kosovec for the title Doctor of Engineering Technology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Assessment of influential factors on motorcyclists’ safety on rural roads
Marija Ferko for the title Doctor of Engineering Technology in 2025
Supervised as Copromotor
Development and Calibration of Safety Performance Functions for Urban Roads in Flanders, Belgium.
Muhammad Wisal Khattak for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2024
Supervised as Copromotor
The Impact of Age-Related Neurophysiological Changes of Motor Control on Driving Across the Adult Lifespan
Siel Depestele for the title Doctor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy in 2023
Supervised as Copromotor
Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents with Reference to Road Geometric Features and Traffic Flow Characteristics
Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2023
Supervised as Promotor
Developing a Composite Index for Assessing Safety Performance of Drivers Based on Data Envelopment Analysis
Seddigheh Babaee for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2023
Supervised as Copromotor
Safety and traffic performance implications of higher levels of automated vehicles in urban areas
Pavlos Tafidis for the title Doctor of Engineering Technology in 2022
Supervised as Copromotor
Evaluating the traffic safety and efficiency of different innovative countermeasures on urban roads using driving simulation.
Qinaat Hussain for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2020
Supervised as Promotor
Balancing traffic safety and independent mobility: the development of an assessment strategy and training for at-risk older drivers.
Judith Urlings for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2019
Supervised as Promotor
Surrogate safety indicators for traffic conflicts involving vulnerable road users
Wouter van Haperen for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2019
Supervised as Copromotor
Proactive Safety Evaluation of Road Infrastructure Designs Using Driving Simulation
Hammad Hussain Awan for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2018
Supervised as Promotor
Spatial crash prediction models: an evaluation of the impacts of enriched information on model performance and the suitability of different spatial modeling approaches.
Monique Martins Gomes for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2018
Supervised as Promotor
Defining and applying surrogate safety measures and behavioural indicators through site-based observations.
Tim De Ceunynck for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2017
Supervised as Promotor
Investigating both ends of the driver age spectrum: assessment of driving behavior and evaluation of traffic safety interventions.
Ariane Cuenen for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
The effects in distance and time of traffic calming measures near road transitions and discontinuities by means of driving simulator research.
Caroline Arien for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
Investigating underlying mechanisms of driving in young novice drivers with and without an autism spectrum disorder.
Veerle Ross for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2016
Supervised as Promotor
The effect evaluation of traffic safety measures. A before-and-after study approach
Ellen De Pauw for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Road safety strategic analysis in Brazil and its states: indicators and index research
Jorge Tiago Bastos for the title Doctor of Transportation Sciences in 2014
Supervised as Copromotor
Building road safety models to improve traffic safety in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tu Anh Trinh for the title doctor in Transportation Sciences in 2013
Supervised as Copromotor
Proactive approaches in quantitative micro- and macroscopic crash analysis. Focus on model-based safety evaluation of traffic policy measures
Ali Pirdavani for the title doctor in Transportation Sciences in 2012
Supervised as Promotor
Inter-national Benchmarking of Road Safety Performance and Development using Indicators and Indexes: Data Envelopment Analysis based Approaches
Yongjun Shen for the title doctor in Transportation Sciences in 2012
Supervised as Copromotor
Projects
59 research projects have been found
Evaluation of Speed Reduction Strategies Through Driving Simulation and Real-World Analysis (Research)
19/06/2025 - 31/05/2028
Connected and Adaptive Maintenance for Safer Urban and Secondary Roads (Research)
01/01/2025 - 31/12/2027
Contract agreement between The Ministry of Transport of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and UH (IMOB) for Delivery of a Master of Transportation Sciences program by Distance Learning to Employees of MOT and affiliated Institutions in Ethiopia (Education)
01/10/2019 - 25/06/2026
Sustainable access to the Diepenbeek and Hasselt campuses and an accelerated modal shift in the wider region (Research)
04/10/2023 - 03/10/2025
Development and Effect Evaluation of Innovative Methodologies for The Improvement of Safe and Eco-friendly Driving Behaviour Through Gamification Among Truck Drivers in Ethiopia (Research)
01/03/2020 - 30/06/2024
STRIKE - Identifying and improving subjective traffic safety in an innovative way (Research)
01/04/2021 - 31/12/2023
Behavioral adaptation to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) – A multi-method comparative study between Vietnam and Belgium (Research)
01/01/2021 - 31/12/2023
i-DREAMS : Interventions for optimal symbiosis of driver-vehicle-environment interactions under challenging conditions. (Research)
01/05/2019 - 30/04/2023
Dangerous driving behaviour interventions through the usage of telematics data: application to young drivers in Qatar (Research)
05/01/2020 - 04/04/2023
Examining Driving Behavior of Adults with Higher Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders to Develop and Evaluate an Innovative Driving Instructor Training Program (Research)
01/06/2019 - 30/11/2022
Driving simulator study into the safety effects of the placement of a wind turbine in a motorway interchange (Research)
28/01/2022 - 15/10/2022
ICP - International Course Programme (Master of Transportation Sciences) (Education)
01/01/2017 - 31/08/2022
Evaluation of the new driver training to obtain a category B driving license - Specifications number: MOW/aVHV/19/03 (Research)
27/01/2021 - 31/03/2022
Public contract (bestek MDN/33) : Analysis and evaluation of road signals. (Research)
18/02/2015 - 17/05/2019
Enhancing the research possibilities of the IMOB driving simulator (Research)
28/06/2012 - 01/11/2018
InDeV - In-Depth understanding of accident causation for Vulnerable road users (Research)
01/05/2015 - 31/10/2018
The complementary and enriching character of MOOCs as a unique educational concept for master degree programmes at UHasselt: a pilot project (Education)
01/10/2016 - 30/09/2018
Development and validation of a cognitive model for assisted driving systems at intersections: A situation awareness approach. (Research)
01/01/2012 - 31/12/2017
INCO 2017 : Networking Conference - Road Safety in Developing Countries (Education)
04/10/2017 - 06/10/2017
About the validity of road user behaviour and near accidents as predictors of the number and the nature of road accidents. (Research)
01/10/2014 - 30/09/2017
Road safety in low and middle income countries : challenges and strategies for improvement. (Education)
15/09/2016 - 07/12/2016
Driving the Future : The relation between driving and prospective memory in adults with autism spectrum disorder. (Research)
01/09/2015 - 31/08/2016
A global approach for evaluating and improving driving skills using a driving simulator (Research)
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2015
Research into the road safety effect of free programmable illuminated traffic signs. (Research)
07/09/2015 - 21/12/2015
Road safety in low and middle-income countries: challanges and strategies for improvement (Education)
17/09/2015 - 11/12/2015
Digital Driving Pass : a multidimensional measurement system of driving performance. (Research)
01/08/2014 - 31/07/2015
"YES, I DRIVE": project for young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to promote the learning to drive and participate safely in motorized traffic. (Research)
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2014
Road safety in low and middle-income countries: challanges and strategies for improvement (Education)
18/09/2014 - 12/12/2014
Research towards a better understanding of crashes in a traffic safety continuum perspective. (Research)
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2014
Applicability of self-explaining roads in Flanders on the basis of driving simulator studies (Research)
01/10/2010 - 30/09/2014
Drawing up a background document to update the road safety plan for Flanders (Research)
01/04/2014 - 31/07/2014
Evaluation of the effectiveness of speed cameras in the field of road safety. (Research)
01/06/2009 - 30/06/2014
Layout of development scenarios and implementation paths for a new mobility plan Flanders. (Research)
15/01/2009 - 31/01/2014
Unraveling the underlying mechanisms of risky driving among adolescents and strategies for training by means of simulated driving (Research)
01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013
ITP 2013(-2014-2015) Road Safety in low and middle-income countries: challenges and strategies for improvement (Education)
10/09/2013 - 14/12/2013
KOI : Road safety in Asian and Latin American countries: principles and approaches (Education)
13/10/2013 - 25/10/2013
Evaluation of the efficiency of route control (test set-up near E17 - viaduct Ghentbruges, direction Courtrai) (Research)
20/09/2010 - 19/09/2013
Study into the optimal location of guard posts for family doctors in Belgium (Research)
15/07/2011 - 14/10/2011
Purchase of a driving simulator, a system for the detection of head and eye movements, physio- and biomechanic monitoring and a system for measuring brain activity (EEG) (Research)
15/06/2008 - 30/06/2009
Education
Involved in the following courses
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2024 - 2025
Academic year 2024 - 2025
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