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Davy Janssens

Davy Janssens

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
30
Citations
3763
World Ranking
14110
National Ranking
130

Overview

Davy Janssens is affiliated with Hasselt University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in the social sciences and engineering fields, with a strong focus on transportation. Their work encompasses various subfields, notably transportation, building and construction, safety, risk, reliability and quality, automotive engineering, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main research topics covered by Janssens include urban transport and accessibility, transportation planning and optimization, traffic and road safety, injury epidemiology and prevention, transportation and mobility innovations, behavioral health and interventions, and urban and freight transport logistics.

Among recent scholarly contributions, Janssens has authored papers such as:

  • "A personalized mobility based intervention to promote pro-environmental travel behavior", 2020, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • "Citywide Traffic Analysis Based on the Combination of Visual and Analytic Approaches", 2020, Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis
  • "Toward the improvement of traffic incident management systems using Car2X technologies", 2020, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • "Child Pedestrian Safety: Study of Street-Crossing Behaviour of Primary School Children with Adult Supervision", 2022, Sustainability
  • "Bicycle Infrastructure Design Principles in Urban Bikeability Indices: A Systematic Review", 2024, Sustainability

Janssens has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Sustainability
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Journal of Safety Research
  • Sensors

Collaboration is a consistent element of Janssens' research profile, with regular co-authorship alongside colleagues including Geert Wets, Ariane Cuenen, Tufail Ahmed, Ali Pirdavani, and Tú Anh Trinh.

Their work integrates insights from multiple disciplines to address complex transportation challenges, including the development of behavioral interventions, safety improvements, and mobility innovations. This multidisciplinary approach supports advancements in urban transport systems and contributes to understanding safety and risk factors in traffic environments.

Best Publications

  • Implementation Framework and Development Trajectory of FEATHERS Activity-Based Simulation Platform:

    Tom Bellemans;Bruno Kochan;Davy Janssens;Geert Wets

  • Improved hierarchical fuzzy TOPSIS for road safety performance evaluation

    Qiong Bao;Da Ruan;Yongjun Shen;Elke Hermans

  • UAV-Based Traffic Analysis: A Universal Guiding Framework Based on Literature Survey

    Muhammad Arsalan Khan;Wim Ectors;Tom Bellemans;Davy Janssens

  • Integrating Bayesian networks and decision trees in a sequential rule-based transportation model

    Davy Janssens;Geert Wets;Tom Brijs;Koen Vanhoof

  • Multi-agent simulation of individual mobility behavior in carpooling

    Stéphane Galland;Luk Knapen;Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar;Nicolas Gaud

  • Presentation and evaluation of an integrated model chain to respond to traffic- and health-related policy questions

    W. Lefebvre;B. Degrawe;C. Beckx;M. Vanhulsel

  • Annotating mobile phone location data with activity purposes using machine learning algorithms

    Feng Liu;Davy Janssens;Geert Wets;Mario Cools

  • Detecting urban road network accessibility problems using taxi GPS data

    JianXun Cui;Feng Liu;Davy Janssens;Shi An

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Traffic Analysis: A Case Study for Shockwave Identification and Flow Parameters Estimation at Signalized Intersections

    Muhammad Arsalan Khan;Wim Ectors;Tom Bellemans;Davy Janssens

  • An Integrated Activity-Based Modelling Framework to Assess Vehicle Emissions: Approach and Application

    Carolien Beckx;Luc Int Panis;Jean Vankerkom;Davy Janssens

  • Mobility Data: Modeling, Management, and Understanding

    Chiara Renso;Stefano Spaccapietra;Esteban Zimnyi

  • Building a validation measure for activity-based transportation models based on mobile phone data

    Feng Liu;Davy Janssens;JianXun Cui;YunPeng Wang

  • Improving performance of multiagent rule-based model for activity pattern decisions with Bayesian networks

    Davy Janssens;Geert Wets;Tom Brijs;Koen Vanhoof

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Based Traffic Analysis: Methodological Framework for Automated Multivehicle Trajectory Extraction:

    Muhammad Arsalan Khan;Wim Ectors;Tom Bellemans;Davy Janssens

  • Evaluating the performance of cost-based discretization versus entropy-and error-based discretization

    Davy Janssens;Tom Brijs;Koen Vanhoof;Geert Wets

  • The effects of social networks on choice set dynamics: Results of numerical simulations using an agent-based approach

    Q Qi Han;TA Theo Arentze;Hjp Harry Timmermans;D Janssens

  • Characterizing activity sequences using profile Hidden Markov Models

    Feng Liu;Davy Janssens;JianXun Cui;Geert Wets

  • A Bayesian approach for modeling origin-destination matrices

    Konstantinos Perrakis;Dimitris Karlis;Mario Cools;Davy Janssens

  • Identifying mismatch between urban travel demand and transport network services using GPS data

    JianXun Cui;Feng Liu;Jia Hu;Davy Janssens

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based Traffic Analysis: A Case Study to Analyze Traffic Streams at Urban Roundabouts

    Muhammad Arsalan Khan;Wim Ectors;Tom Bellemans;Yassine Ruichek

  • Exploiting graph-theoretic tools for matching in carpooling applications

    Luk Knapen;Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar;Sungjin Cho;Daniel Keren

  • Destination Choice in Daily Activity Travel: Mental Map’s Repertoire

    Els Hannes;Davy Janssens;Geert Wets

  • A Bayesian Approach For Modeling Origin-Destination Matrices

    Konstantinos Perrakis;Dimitris Karlis;Mario Cools;Davy Janssens

Frequent Co-Authors

Geert Wets
Geert Wets Hasselt University
Koen Vanhoof
Koen Vanhoof Hasselt University
TA Theo Arentze
TA Theo Arentze Eindhoven University of Technology
Tom Brijs
Tom Brijs Hasselt University
Harry Timmermans
Harry Timmermans Eindhoven University of Technology
Luc Int Panis
Luc Int Panis Hasselt University
Benedict G. C. Dellaert
Benedict G. C. Dellaert Erasmus University Rotterdam
Guoqing Chen
Guoqing Chen Tsinghua University
Da Ruan
Da Ruan Ghent University
Prashant Kumar
Prashant Kumar University of Surrey

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