Awards
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[edit] 2009 TSL Dissertation Prize -- Application Process
This is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. The following criteria will be used in judging candidate dissertations.
- Fundamental contribution and originality of the ideas or methods.
- Practical importance or applicability in solving important real problems.
- Clarity and excellence of the exposition.
Eligible doctoral dissertations are those completed and submitted between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009 in the general area of transportation science and logistics.
To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who should submit the following items, all electronically in Adobe PDF format:
- A copy of the dissertation,
- An extended abstract (3-5 pages), separate from thesis,
- A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor supporting the submission and stating his/her assessment of why the thesis is worthy of the award, and,
- An abstract of 300 words without formulas or mathematical notation.
Submissions should be sent electronically to Georgia Perakis, Committee Chair, at georgiap@mit.edu. The deadline for receipt of submissions is July 10, 2009. The recommendations of the judges will be announced during the meeting of the Society at the Fall 2009 INFORMS conference in San Diego CA.
2009 Committee Chair
Georgia Perakis
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E53-359
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 U.S.A.
voice: +1 617-253-8277
email: georgiap@mit.edu
Other Committee Members
Jay Jayakrishnan (UC-Irvine)
Huseyin Topaloglu (Cornell University)
Travis Waller (UT-Austin)
Nicolas Stier-Moses (Columbia University)
[edit] 2008 Council of University Transportation Centers Dissertation/Thesis awards and Faculty Awards Winners
The Council of University Transportation Centers recently announced the results of its annual dissertation/thesis awards and faculty awards. TSL members fared well. Urban Transportation Modeling SIG Chair Laurie Garrow of Georgia Tech was recognized with the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award. Pikarsky Science and Technology dissertation award winner Dr. Anuj Sharma was advised by TSL member Srinivas Peeta of Purdue.
[edit] Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education & Research
This award has been given annually since 1998 to honor individuals who have had a long history of outstanding contributions to university transportation education and research.
- Professor Eugene Russell, Sr., Kansas State University
[edit] CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award
This award recognizes outstanding teaching and research contributions to the transportation field by a new tenure track faculty member in transportation.
- Professor Laurie Garrow, Georgia Institute of Technology
[edit] Milton Pikarsky Memorial Awards
These awards are given annually for the best Ph.D. dissertation and M.S. thesis in the field of science and technology in transportation studies.
- PhD Award Winner: Dr. Anuj Sharma
University: Purdue University (Currently Assist. Prof. of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Advisor: Dr. Srinivas Peeta and Dr. Darcy Bullock
Title of Dissertation/Thesis/Project: Integrated Behavioral and Economic Framework for Improving Dilemma Zone Protection Systems
- MS Award Winner: Cameron Williams
University: Texas A&M University
Title of Dissertation/Thesis/Project: Field Location and Marking of No-Passing Zones Due to Vertical Alignments Using the Global Positioning System
[edit] Charley V. Wootan Memorial Awards
These awards are given annually for the best Ph.D. dissertation and M.S. thesis in the field of policy and planning in transportation studies.
- PhD Award Winner: Abdul Rawoof Pinjari
University: The University of Texas at Austin (Currently Assist. Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida)
Advisor: Dr. Chandra Bhat
Title of Dissertation/Thesis/Project: Modeling Residential Self-Selection in Activity-Travel Behavior Models: Integrated Models of Multidimensional Choice Processes
- MS Award Winner: Abishek Komma
University: University of Florida, Gainesville
Title of Dissertation/Thesis/Project: Continuous Departure Time Choice Models for Home-to-Work Commute
Neville A. Parker Awards
These awards are presented each year to two transportation studies graduate students for outstanding non-thesis papers in the fields of science and technology, and policy and planning.
- Policy & Planning Award Winner: Kent Hymel
University: University of California at Irvine
Advisors: Dr. Jan Brueckner, Dr. Kenneth Small, and Dr. David Neumark
Title of Dissertation/Thesis/Project: Does Traffic Congestion Reduce Employment Growth?
- Science & Technology Award Winner: Zachary Horowitz
University: Portland State University
Advisors: Dr. Chris Monsere and Dr. Robert Bertini
Title of Dissertation/Thesis/Project: Freight Railroad Capacity Alternatives in the Pacific Northwest
[edit] Lifetime Achievement in Transportation Research & Education
Instituted in 2004, the Lifetime Achievement Award honors those individuals who have contributed immensely throughout their professional lives to transportation research and education.
- Senator Barbara Boxer
The Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) represents over 85 Centers and Universities that enroll thousands of students in transportation engineering, construction and related programs. CUTC principal members include the directors, professors and program managers of the leading transportation programs across the country. The CUTC awards competition recognizes outstanding transportation students, faculty and leaders. The 2008 awards will be presented at the 12th Annual CUTC Reception and Banquet January 10, 2009 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. In addition to the CUTC honorees, the UTC Students of the Year will also be recognized.
Reception & Banquet Honoring CUTC Award Recipients & UTC Students of the Year 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 10, 2009 Diplomat & Palladian Ballrooms Omni Shoreham Hotel 2500 Calvert Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
Further details are available at http://www.cutcbanquet.com
[edit] 2008 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize in Travel Behaviour Research Call for Nominations
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2009
The International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) invites submissions for the 2008 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize. This dissertation prize recognizes the best doctoral dissertation in the area of travel behaviour research accepted at an institution between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008. Announcement of winner(s) and presentation of award(s) will take place at the 2009 International Association of Travel Behaviour Research in Jaipur, India in December 2009.
NOTE: The Eric Pas Dissertation Prize Competition has been drawing an increasing number of entries in the recent past. Therefore, in an effort to simplify the logistics associated with handling a large number of entries, the entire submission and review process will be handled purely through electronic communications (similar to the 2007 Competition cycle).
Supervisors wishing to submit 2008 dissertations for consideration should provide the following items via e-mail no later than April 1, 2009: 1. The complete doctoral dissertation/thesis including all appendices 2. An extended abstract (in English) between 3 to 5 pages in length, and 3. A nomination letter (in English) supporting the submission and stating the supervisor’s assessment of why the dissertation/thesis is worthy of the award.
The extended abstract and supervisor’s nomination letter (items 2 and 3) must be transmitted as distinct attachments either in MS-Word or Acrobat PDF format. The doctoral dissertation (item 1) should also be transmitted, if possible, as a single file attachment either in MS-Word or Acrobat PDF format. However, if the size or nature of the document does not allow this, then the dissertation may be transmitted as multiple file attachments (e.g., one file per chapter) or in a ZIP format. Special formats may be accommodated (e.g., Excel for tables/charts, JPG for figures) for certain elements of the dissertation, but should be kept to a minimum.
Entries should be submitted via e-mail to the Chair of the 2008 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize Jury, Prof Shlomo Bekhor, Technion, Israel (sbekhor@technion.ac.il), with a copy (cc:) to the Chair of the IATBR, Prof. Eric J. Miller, University of Toronto, Canada (miller@civ.utoronto.ca).
For additional information on Eric Pas’s (1948-1997) contributions to the travel behaviour research field and a list of past recipients of the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize, please visit the IATBR website at http://www.iatbr.org.
[edit] 2008 TSL Dissertation Prize Competition Call for Nominations
Nominations are invited for the 2008 Dissertation Prize Competition sponsored by the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society. This award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. The award is accompanied by a $500 honorarium for the winner. In addition, the winner and the recipient of an honorable mention (if any) each receives a commemorative plaque.
The following criteria will be used in judging candidate dissertations:
- Fundamental contribution and originality of the ideas or methods.
- Practical importance or applicability in solving important real problems.
- Clarity and excellence of the exposition.
Eligible doctoral dissertations are those completed and submitted between June 1, 2007 and May 31, 2008 in the general area of transportation science and logistics.
To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who should submit the following items, all electronically in Adobe PDF format:
- a copy of the dissertation,
- an extended abstract (3-5 pages), separate from the thesis,
- a letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, supporting the submission and stating his/her assessment of why the thesis is worthy of the award, and,
- an abstract of 300 words without formulas or mathematical notation.
Submissions should be sent electronically to:
Alan Erera
alan.erera@isye.gatech.edu
Chair, 2008 Dissertation Prize Committee
The deadline for receipt of submissions is June 30, 2008. The recommendations of the judges will be announced during the meeting of the Society at Fall 2008 INFORMS in Washington, DC.
This year's judging committee is:
Alan Erera (Georgia Tech, chair)
Guy Desaulniers (Ecole Polytechnique Montreal)
Jay Jayakrishnan (UC-Irvine)
Georgia Perakis (MIT)
Daniele Vigo (U. Bologna)
[edit] 2008 TSL Best Paper Award Call for Nominations
The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods. A paper is eligible if it is written in English and if it has been published within the three (3) years prior to the submission deadline. All topics related to the field of transportation science and logistics will be considered, including, but not being limited to:
- airline operations
- facility logistics
- freight
- intelligent transportation systems
- transit
- urban transportation planning methods
- vehicle routing
To submit a paper for the 2008 competition, one of the authors must send three copies of it, along with a short letter (maximum 2 pages) describing the merits of the paper, to the Chair of the TSL Best Paper Award Committee, before July 1, 2008, at the following address:
Professor David M Ryan
Department of Engineering Science
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
d.ryan@auckland.ac.nz
The other members of the Committee are:
Professor Pitu Mirchandani
Professor Anton Kleywegt
Professor Natashia Boland
Professor Jens Clausen
Any author must submit only one of his/her eligible papers, although (s)he can be a co-author of another submitted paper. A paper is eligible for the competition if
- its main topic is related to the field of transportation science and logistics;
- it is written in English; and
- it has been published in a refereed journal between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2008.
The winning paper will be announced at the TSL business meeting to be held during the annual INFORMS meeting. The authors of the winning paper will share a prize of $800, and each will receive a certificate.
