Marjan Hagenzieker is a full professor in Traffic Safety at the Department Transport & Planning at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft. Her research and teaching activities focus on the road safety effects of the transport system, with particular interest in road user behaviour aspects. Within the transport system she focuses on traffic safety issues related to cities, cyclists and vehicle automation.
Recent projects of Marjan include Meaningful Human Control over Automated Driving Systems (NWO), MOTORIST (EC, with focus on behaviour and safety of pedelec riders), and METHOD (CEDR) on Management of European Traffic using Human-Oriented Designs, intended to develop a human factors perspective on traffic management measures. She is a Regular Advisor to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment on safety related topics that involve human factor issues, such as distraction in traffic.
She also works at the SWOV road safety research institute.
She is member of the Editorial Boards of Transportation Research Part F and Safety Science. In 2014, she was guest editor of a Transportation Research F Special Issue on History of Road Safety Research.
Transport & Planning is the only academic group in the Netherlands with a full professor in Traffic Safety. In addition to Marjan Hagenzieker, also Dr. Haneen Farah (assistant professor) will contribute to the STAD project . Her research includes traffic safety, road design, road user behavior modeling and impact of automated and cooperative systems on driver behavior.