Transportation Research Forum

Best Paper Award

Past Recipients

  • 2011 — Alexander Bigazzi and Miguel Figliozzi, "A model and Case Study of hte Impacts of Stochastic Capacity on Freeway Traffic Flow Benefits and Costs"
  • 2010 — Tony Diana, "Predicting Arrival Delays: An Application of Spatial Analysis"
  • 2009 — Tae H. Oum, Jia Yan, and Chunyan Yu, "Ownership Forms Matter for Airport Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Investigation of Worldwide Airports"
  • 2008 — C. Gregory Bereskin, "Railroad Cost Curves Over Thirty Years - What Can They Tell Us?"
  • 2007 — Rob Konings, Ben-Jaap Pielage, Johan Visser, Bart Wiegmans, "Container Ports and Their Hinterland: Multimodal Access and Satellite Terminals within the Extended Gateway Concept"
  • 2006 — Ian Savage, "Trespassing on the Railroad"
  • 2005 — Patrick DeCorla-Souza, "A New Public-Private Partnership Model for Road Pricing Implementation"
  • 2004 — Ian Savage and Shannon Mok, "Why Has Safety Improved at Rail-Highway Crossings?"
  • 2000 — Ian Savage, "Management Objectives and the Causes of Mass Transportation"
  • 1999 — C. Phillip Baumel, Jean-Philippe Gervais, Marty J. McVey, and Takehiro Misawa, "Evaluating the Logistics Economic Impacts of Extending Six Hundred Foot Locks on the Upper Mississippi River: A Linear Programming Approach"
  • 1998 — Carl Scheraga and Patricia M. Poli, "Assessing the Relative Efficiency and Quality of Motor Carrier Maintenance Strategies: An Application of Data Entry Envelopment Analysis"
  • 1997 — Wayne K. Talley and Ann Schwarz-Miller, "Motor Bus Deregulation and Racial/Gender Effects: Earnings and Employment"
  • 1996 — Todd Litman, "Full Cost Accounting for Transportation Decision Making: Estimates, Implications and Applications"
  • 1995 — Leon N. Moses and Ian Savage, "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of United States Motor Carrier Safety Programs"
  • 1994 — Brian Shaffer and James Freeman, "Variation in Producer Responses to Automobile Fuel Economy Mandates"
  • 1993 — W. Bruce Allen and Dong Liu, "Service Quality and Motor Carrier Costs: An Empirical Analysis"
  • 1992 — Victor E. Eusebio, Stephen J. Rindom, Ali Abderrezak, and John Jay Rosacker, "Rail Branch Lines at Risk: An Application of the Exponential Survival Model on Kansas Duration Data"
  • 1991 — Patrick Little, Joseph M. Sussman, and Carl Martland, "Alternative Freight Car Maintenance Policies with Attractive Reliability/Cost Relationships"
  • 1990 — James A. Kling, Curtis M. Grimm, and Thomas M. Corsi, "Strategies of Challenging Airlines at Hub-Dominated Airports"
  • 1989 — Cathy A. Hamlett, Sherry Brennan, and C. Phillip Baumel, "Local Rural Roads: A Policy Analysis"
  • 1988 — John R. Brander, B. A. Cook, and John Rowcroft, "Auctioning Runway Slots: Long Term Implications"
  • 1987 — Clinton V. Oster, Jr. and C. Kurt Zorn, "Deregulation's Impact on Airline Safety"
  • 1986 — Chulam Sarwar and Dale G. Anderson, "Impact of the Staggers Act on Variability and Uncertainty of Farm Product Prices"
  • 1985 — Brian D. Adam and Dale G. Anderson, "Implications of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 for Level and Variability of Country Elevator Bid Prices".

    Donald J. Harmatuck, "Back Haul Pricing: Mathematical Programming and Game Theory Approaches to Allocating Joint Costs".

    Jeffrey L. Jordan, Dieudonne Mann, S. E. Pressia, and C. Thai, "Managing the Transportation of Perishable Commodities: Temperature Control and Stacking Patterns"
  • 1984 — K. Eric Wolfe, "An Examination of Risk Costs Associated with the Movement of Hazardous Materials"
  • 1983 — Denver D. Tolliver, "Economics of Density in Railroad Cost-Finding: Applications to Rail Form A"
  • 1982 — Jeffrey Beaulieu, Robert J. Hauser, and C. Phillip Baumel, "Inland Waterway User Taxes: Their Impacts on Corn, Wheat and Soybean Flows and Transport Costs"
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