School staff
Professor Pete Thomas
Professor of Road and Vehicle Safety
Tel +44 (0)1509 226931
Email p.d.thomas@lboro.ac.uk
Location LDS 1.10
Personal profile
Pete Thomas is the Head of the Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University.
He is a specialist in the area of accident and injury causation and has made many contributions to vehicle and road safety. He has published over 150 research papers on a broad range of vehicle safety issues, including active safety systems, injury biomechanics and causation, crash test procedures and accident data analysis.
Research
Research Group: Transport Safety Research Centre.
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Chair and Co-ordinator EC 7th Framework DaCoTA Integrated Project (total €7 million) (2010 - 2013)
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Chair and Coordinator EC 6th Framework SafetyNet Integrated Project (total €13 million) (2004-2008)
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Chair and Coordinator EC 5th Framework PENDANT (Pan-European Coordinated Accident and Injury Databases) project (total £1.9 million) (2003-2006)
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TSRC Project Manager for DfT Co-operative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) from inception in 1983 to 2002
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Advisor to the European Commission on accident and safety data information systems. Co-ordination of European Road Safety Observatory.
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Consultant to EC for development of 4th Road Safety Action Plan (2009 - 2010)
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Specialist in the area of accident and injury causation, publishing over 150 research papers on a broad range of vehicle safety issues, including active safety systems, injury biomechanics and causation, crash test procedures and accident data analysis
Particular areas of interest
Research into an evidenced-based procedure to characterise effective intelligent transport systems for optimum casualty reduction and the application of new technologies in accident research to simulate driver behaviour and improve pre-crash sensing capabilities.
Featured publications
- Thomas, P. A Review of ITS and their Safety Benefits, ETSC Best in Europe Conference, February 2006.
- Morris, A.P., Welsh, R., Thomas, P., Kirk, A. Head and chest injury outcomes in struck-side crashes, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Impact, Prague, September 2006.
- Barnes, J, Thomas, P., Long-term Health Indicators following traffic accident injury, Proceedings of 47th Annual Conference of Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Key Biscayne, US, September, 2004.