Research

UTRC Best Transportation Paper Competition

Overview

The University Transportation Research Center holds an annual competition for the best paper published in the UTRC Consortium over the preceding academic year. The winning paper is honored at the Annual Leadership in Transportation Awards Reception held each February by the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management.

Eligibility

The sole or lead author of the paper must be a student, faculty member, or staff member of a UTRC Consortium institution. One submission per person, please.

To be eligible for this competition, the paper must have been published by a peer-reviewed journal between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008.

To submit a paper: email a PDF or mail a photocopy of the published paper to:

Ellen Thorson
UTRC – 910 Marshak Hall
City College of New York
New York, NY 10031
ethor (at) utrc2 . org

Submissions must be received by: October 31, 2008

Past Awardees

Year	Lead Author	Paper
2007	Dr. José Holguín-Veras	J Holguín-Veras, M Silas, J Polimeni, and B Cruz, "An Investigation on the Effectiveness of Joint Receiver–Carrier Policies to Increase Truck Traffic in the Off-peak Hours" (Parts I & II). Networks and Spatial Economics, 7:3, pp. 277-295.
2006	Dr. Daniel B. Hess	DB Hess, BD Taylor and AC Yoh, "Light Rail Lite or Cost-Effective Improvements to Bus Service? Evaluating the Costs of Implementing Bus Rapid Transit". Transportation Research Record, No. 1927, pp. 22-30.

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