TPS has announced the winners of its 2016 Bursary Competition in which Young Professionals wrote 5000 word papers on “Technology in Transport”

The Transport Planning Society offers £500 bursaries annually to young transport planners to produce original thinking on a topic of current relevance to transport planning.  

The 2016 competition was held in collaboraton with Transport Systems Catapult who offered inspiration and advice to the Bursarians.

The Society is delighted to announce five bursary awards :

Clare Cornes – TfGM

Use of technology during Incident Response in Greater Manchester, to aid incident recovery and associated travel demand management.

Rebecca Craig – LB Hounslow

The impact of technology as used by Transportation Network Companies such as Uber in Kampala, Uganda

Catherine Evans – Systra

Use of technology to inform purchasers and instil sustainable travel at the time of property purchase

Joely Hill – DHA Transport

Use of technology such as social media as an intrinsic part of Travel Plans

Chris Small – TfGM

Use of technology to enhance bus priority at traffic signals in Greater Manchester

Two additional awards of joint “Bursary of the Year” were made to Rebecca Craig and Catherine Evans for the excellence of their papers. These will be presented at the TPS meeting in London on 2^nd March 2017.

Tim Morton, TPS Director responsible for the Bursary competition, commented “All five Bursary papers were well researched and very thought provoking. The TPS Board particularly liked Rebecca’s and Catherine’s papers for their originality and the quality of data collection and analysis undertaken.”                                                         

James Gleave of TSC commented : “It was good to see so many Young Professionals in TPS interested in understanding the impacts of technology. It was also highly encouraging to see ideas that could potentially have a high impact on transport.”

The competition for the 2017 Bursary Awards will be announced on the TPS website in April.

For further information and to read the five Bursary papers, please refer to the Skills > Bursaries section of the website.