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:
The jury considered the following criteria in its decision process:
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:
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"
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: