The Transport Planning Society offers £500 bursaries to young transport planners to produce original thinking on a topic of current relevance to transport planning. The topic for the 2015 competition was “How can Demand Management be achieved without full Road User Charging?”

The Society is delighted to announce three winners :

Hannah Beaven (WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff) – “Making the Case for Active Travel Initiatives as a Travel Demand Management Tool – Ways forward given Problems with Evaluation”

Melina Christina (Atkins) – “Time to Spread the Peak!”

Tom Fleming (ITP) – “Travel Budgeting – the New Incentive-led Approach to an Integrated System of Travel Taxation”.

Melina Christina was awarded the prize for Bursary of the Year at the TPS meeting on 3 March 2016.

To read more and to download the press release click 2015 Bursary Award Press release.docx

To download the papers go to the Policy Pages on the website and follow the link for Bursaries. http://tps.org.uk/index.php?cID=html_26