Best Paper by Young Professional Award

Congratulations to Lauren James, the 2021 winner of the Best Paper by a Young Professional presented at the Transport Practitioners Meeting for her paper "Paving the Road to Accessibility: the need for inclusive transport policy to enable cycling accessibility for all, no matter of ability, or disability. A Case Study of London."

Download her paper here "Paving the Road to Accessibility: the need for inclusive transport policy to enable cycling accessibility for all, no matter of ability, or disability. A Case Study of London."

TPS was delighted to present the Award for the Best Paper 2020 to Sherin Francis and Katie Pearce, both from Jacobs and TPS members, for their paper:

"Reimagining Movement and the Transport Appraisal Process through a Gender Lens: a case study in the United Kingdom utilising a lifecycle approach. 

Their paper can be downloaded here : Reimagining Movement and the Transport Appraisal Process through a Gender Lens

This Best Paper by a Young Practitioner 2019,  sponsored by TPS, and awarded  at the annual Transport Practitioners' Meeting was by Alex Thomas from Devon County Council  for his paper entitled "Lessons learnt from the first fully electric bike share scheme in the UK: a case study of Exeter's co-bikes"

His  paper can be downloaded Lessons learnt from the first fully electric bike share scheme in the UK

The winner of the 2018 Best Paper by a Young Professional was Ruby Stringer of Integrated Transport Planning Ltd. for her paper entitled "Quality Incentive Contracts to improve women's safety on public transport in Bangladesh"

She not only put forward a range of sensible ideas, but demonstrated their robustness by critiquing them against possible objections. 

Download the paper here "Quality Incentive Contracts to improve women's safety on public transport in Bangladesh"

TPS was delighted to make this award for the Best Paper by a Young Professional to Edward Dawes of Arup for his paper entitled “Evaluating the Impact of Light Rail on Urban Gentrification : Quantitative Evidence from Nottingham’s LRT” at the Transport Practitioners' Meeting.

A copy of his paper can be downloaded here  Evaluating the Impact of Light Rail on Urban Gentrification : Quantitative Evidence from Nottingham’s LRT”

Hannah Clark from Devon County Council,  received the  TPS best paper award 2016 for her paper ‘An Investigation into TEMPro growth factors’. This was one of 14 papers by young practitioners at the 2016 Transport Practitioners’ Meeting, and the competition was very strong.

Her paper can be downloaded here An Investigation into TEM...paper by Hannah Clark.pdf

James Rhodes from JMP received the TPS best paper award 2015 for his paper "An Investigation of the relationship between transport and health whilst examining the importance of local people and adopting a bottom up approach to transport planning policies and procedures".  James is pictured receiving his Award from Nick Richardson, TPS Chair at the Transport Practitioners Meeting. 

His  paper can be downloaded here An Investigation of the relationship between transport and health by James Rhodes

Greg Drach received the TPS best paper award 2014 for his paper "The use of gamification to increase sustainable travel behaviour" which set out an innovative approach based on the gaming industry theory to develop tools to encourage sustainable travel, namely cycling. Greg is pictured receiving his Award from Nick Richardson, TPS Chair at the Transport Practitioners Meeting. 

Four papers were reviewed by a panel of TPS Board members and the results were very close. In a close second was "Crossrail 2 : Demand Forecasting For a Major New Rail Line in London" by Mark Honey from Transport for London.

His  paper can be downloaded here "The use of gamification to increase sustainable travel behaviour"