Dr. Ward Vanlaar is the Vice President Research of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF), a non-profit, independent road safety institute. Before working at TIRF, Dr. Vanlaar worked for the Behaviour and Policy Department of the Belgian Road Safety Institute (IBSR). He has participated in a variety of major European road safety projects, including some of which where he served as a coordinator. He has published several reports and articles on drinking and driving, fatigued driving, aggressive driving, multilevel modeling, and multidimensional scaling.
Dr. Vanlaar received his Ph.D. in Transportation Science from the University of Hasselt in Belgium in 2009. Ward has a Masters degree in Criminology from Ghent University and a Masters degree in Quantitative Analysis from the Catholic University of Brussels. He teaches quantitative methods in criminology as a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, both in English and French, and has taught multivariate analysis as a Teaching Fellow at the Essex University Summer School. He also served as a guest faculty member at the University of Hasselt. Dr. Vanlaar is a reviewer for a variety of journals, including Accident Analysis and Prevention, Traffic Injury Prevention, the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Journal of Safety Research, and the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Dr. Vanlaar is a board member of the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) as well as a member of the International Council of Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS); of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP/ACPSER); and the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA).