Thomas JONSSON

CURRICULUM VITAE

Qualifications

• PhD in Traffic Engineering, 2005 at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
  Title of thesis: Predictive models for accidents on urban links - A focus on vulnerable road users

Professional activities

• May 2005 - December 2006 Postdoctoral fellow at University of Connecticut, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• February 2007 - Postdoctoral fellow at Lund University, Department of Technology and Society

International cooperation

• Webmaster of ICTCT since 1997.
• Member of the workgroup on Supervision and training within Eurodoc

Memberships

• Member of Riskkollegiet, Swedish national organisation of researchers in the area of risk management

Main areas of interest

• Predictive models for accidents
• Safety of bicyclists and pedestrians
• Field study methodology regarding vehicle speeds
• Risk management

Publications

• JONSSON, Thomas; IVAN, John N., ZHANG, Chen (presented at TRB annual meeting 2007, accepted for publication in TRR) Investigating Differences between Crash Types for Modeling Purposes, TRB, Washington, USA
• ZHANG, Chen; IVAN, John N., JONSSON, Thomas (presented at TRB annual meeting 2007) Collision Type Categorization Based on Crash Causality and Severity Analysis, TRB, Washington, USA
• Hansen, Gilbert; Garrick, Norman W., Ivan, John N., Jonsson, Thomas (presented at TRB annual meeting 2007) Variation in Free Flow Speed due to Roadway Type and Roadside Environment, TRB, Washington, USA
• JONSSON T., DENG Z., IVAN J.N. 2006 (Presented at TRB annual meeting 2006) A Procedure For Allocating Zonal Attributes To A Link Network In A Gis Environment, TRB, Washington, USA
• ZHANG C., IVAN J.N., JONSSON T. 2006 (Presented at TRB annual meeting 2006) Predicting Two-lane Highway Crashes Using Crash Opportunities: A Newly Defined Measure of Exposure, TRB, Washington, USA
• JONSSON T. 2005, Predictive models for accidents on urban links - a focus on vulnerable road users. Doctoral Dissertation, Bulletin 226, Department of technology and Society, Lund university Abstract and full text
• JONSSON T. 2001, Traffic safety on urban streets - the problem and how to assess it. Proceedings of the conference Traffic Safety on Three Continents, Moscow, Russia
• JONSSON T. 2001, Effektmodeller för trafiksäkerhet i tättbebyggt område. Bulletin 203, Department of technology and Society, Lund university
• JONSSON T., 1998, 30 km/h-zones in central Stockholm. ICTCT Workshop in Budapest, Hungary
• JONSSON T., EKMAN L. 1997, Area wide illustration of car speeds. ICTCT Conference in Lund, Sweden

Last updated: 2007-10-05