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In the next picture, Denver Tolliver of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute discusses track condition factors in the panel session "U.S. Small Railroads: Track Condition and the Future of this Transportation Link to Rural America." |
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| Tuesday's luncheon session featured North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad discussing the long term budget deficit of the Federal government. Senator Conrad mentioned that he received an MBA degree from George Washington University and his expertise has earned him a nickname in the Senate, "The Accountant." |
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The luncheon session also featured a variety of awards. TRF Program Vice President Anthony M. Pagano, University of Illinois at Chicago, was the MC for the event. Here he announces the awards to the Forum. |
| The first award was presented by TRF Academic Vice President Mike Babcock of Kansas State University. Michail Gkolias of Rutgers University was the winner of the Graduate Student Best Paper Award for his paper "Vehicle-Based Demand Modeling: A New Approach." His paper was the winner in a nation-wide contest sponsored by TRF. In the picture, Babcock on the right presents the award to Gkolias. |
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TRF's Agricultural and Rural Transportation Chapter annually sponsors an award for the best paper presented at the conference in that area. The winner of the Agricultural and Rural Transportation Best Paper Award was Andrew Coleman of the University of Michigan for his paper: "Storage, Slow Transport and the Law of One Price: Theory with Evidence from Nineteenth Century U.S. Corn Markets" Babcock presents the award in the picture. |
| The most prestigious of all the paper awards given at the conference is the Best Paper Award. This recognizes the paper that in the eyes of the program committee makes the greatest contribution to transportation research and practice. Papers are nominated by reviewers and then the committee makes its decision. The one paper that stood out beyond all others was: "A New Public-Private Partnership Model for Road Pricing Implementation" by Patrick DeCorla-Souza of the Federal Highway Administration. Here, TRF Program VP Tony Pagano presents the award to DeCorla-Souza. |
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An award, not given every year, which recognizes many years of service to TRF, is the Herbert O. Whitten TRF Service Award. Named for TRF founder and first TRF president Herbert O. Whitten, the award is given to a TRF member whose contributions to the Transportation Research Forum have played an important role in the history of the organization. This year's Whitten award winner is Michael W. Babcock of Kansas State University. Babcock has served the organization in many different capacities over the years including TRF Academic Vice President, editor of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum and president of the Agricultural and Rural Transportation Chapter.
In the pictures, last year's Whitten Award winner, Jack S. Ventura of the Surface Transportation Board, presents the award to Babcock. |
| Mike Babcock is shown in the next picture with previous Whitten Award winners. From left to right are Carl Martland of MIT, Paul Gessner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Jack Ventura, Mike Babcock, incoming TRF President Scott Tarry and Program VP Tony Pagano. |
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The last award presented at the meeting is the Distinguished Transportation Researcher Award. The Distinguished Transportation Researcher award recognizes a lifetime of contributions to transportation research. This great honor recognizes the many accomplishments of the recipient. This year's honoree has spent a lifetime conducting research, writing books and articles, and consulting with governments and businesses around the world. He is a prolific writer, having authored, co-authored or edited 61 separate books, with many more on the way. In the picture, Tony Pagano presents the award to Ken Button, professor of public policy, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University. |
| The 2005 Annual Forum was also about the future. Jack Wells, USDOT, and 2006 TRF Program Vice President discussed plans for the 2006 Forum to be held in New York in March. |
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The future of TRF also includes revitalized chapters. In the picture, Chicago Chapter President Joe DiJohn of the University of Illinois at Chicago discusses plans for the new, revitalized Chicago chapter. |
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