ETC 2009 Award Winners
PSLUT Award 2009
The Planning for Sustainable Land-Use and Transport Committee (PSLUT) conferred for the second time the PSLUT Award on Sustainable Land-Use/Transport Solutions.
The award was gratefully sponsored by the Halcrow Group Ltd., London including Palatinate Riesling and Fig Mustard from the Zeter company (www.zeter.de).
The international judging committee comprised: Michael Bach (UK), Peter Endemann (DE), Dr. Robin Hickman (Chair, UK), Prof. Martin Lanzendorf (DE), Dr. Doina Olaru (AU) and Dr. Daniëlle Snellen (NL).
Selection criteria: Eligible contributors to the European Transport Conference 2009 were asked:
- to address the integration of transport and land-use planning through interesting and original research results and examples of good practice.
- address one of the issues as set out in the Call for Papers of the Planning for Sustainable Land-Use and Transport Programme Committee and
- show a direct link to policy, such as research for policy development and/or to assess the effectiveness of policy initiatives and monitoring procedures.
The jury considered the following criteria in its decision process:
- Integration of transport and planning disciplines
- Relevance to the call for papers
- Originality of thought
- Linkage to policy
The jury received a variety of interesting papers reflecting different angles of sustainable transport related challenges. The jury identified two good papers fulfilling most of the award criteria and touching two aspects providing a better understanding of integrated land-use policies and the underlying impacts.
On 5 October 2009 a joint award was presented to:
- Derek Halden from Derek Halden Consulting for the paper entitled "10 years of accessibility planning in the UK - what has been achieved?"
- Roger Mackett from University College London for the paper entitled "Why is it so difficult to reduce car use?"
The Neil Mansfield Award
This award is given in the name of Neil Mansfield, a brilliant young researcher in the UK Department of Transport, who died at a young age, for the best paper delivered at the Conference by a sole author under the age of 35.
The judging committee comprised of:
Francis Cheung (NL)
Wim Korver (NL)
Neil Paulley (UK)
This year, the Neil Mansfield Award went to Marc Gelhausen from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the paper entitled "Modelling airport capacity constraints in air travellers' airport choice"
Emerald's Tourism Review Award
(sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd) (new for 2009).
The 'Emerald's Tourism Review' Award for the best Leisure and Tourism paper was sponsored by 'Emerald Group Publishing Limited' and presented for the first time at the European Transport Conference 2009.
The award was presented to Desirée Verbeek from Tilburg University (NL) for the paper entitled "A sustainable tourism mobility passage".
The prize also included:
- The opportunity to publish the winning paper in 'Tourism Review' (subject to peer review).
- A year's subscription to a journal of their choice
- An award certificate
