Excellence awards
The Transport Systems Centre (TSC) places a high priority on the excellence and relevance of its research. The Centre's Researchers have been honoured with several major awards and grants in recognition of the excellence of their research.
Awards include:
- Certificate of Merit for the 2006 IAENG International Workshop on Operations Research (student)[IMECS 2006] was awarded to Hung Thanh Ngyuen (Ritsumeikan University), Hideto Ikeda (Ritsumeikan University), Nikolaos Vogiatzis (Transport Systems Centre), Zin Lin (Ritsumeikan University) for their paper titled "New Environment CREPE for Transportation Control and Effectiveness".
- 2005 Award for Contribution to the Transport Profession was awarded to Professor Derek Scrafton by the Institute of Transportation Engineers
- 2005 Best Student Paper Award at the 1st Intelligent Vehicle and Road Infrastructure Conference awarded to Dr Kun Zhang. His paper was entitled Simulation of Freeway Incident Detection Using Bayesian Networks.
- 2005 Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Outgoing Award for travel to an Asian country for a period of 6 months was won by Mr Nikolaos Vogiatzis. Nik travelled to Ritsumeikan University (Biwako-Kusatsu Campus) as a Visiting Research Fellow. Only 19 such awards were awarded in 2005 and five were awarded to University of South Australia students.
- David Willis Memorial Prize at the 27th Australasian Transport Research Forum Conference awarded to Mr Nikolaos Vogiatzis for best paper by a research student or new professional presented at the 27th ATRF. His paper was entitled On the locality-scope model for improving the performance of transportation management systems. The prize commemorates the life of David Willis, a well regarded and experienced young transport professional who died tragically at an early age in 1998. It is aimed at encouraging new professionals in developing a career in transport research and is also to recognise the contribution and value of new professionals in developing the transport research profession as a whole. Click here for PDF file of paper
- Rodney Vaughan Prize for best research student paper at 2003 Conference of Australian Institutes of Transport Research award to Mr Frank Primerano for his paper entitled ' Mobility considerations in restricting choice sets in modal choice models'
- Outstanding Paper Award at the 5th Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS 2003) awarded to Mr Nikolaos Vogiatzis, Professor Hideto Ikeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Dr Jeremy Woolley (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Mr Yu He (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) for their paper titled 'Integrated Multi-Nodal Traffic Network System'
- David Willis Memorial Prize for best student paper at the 25th Australasian Transport Forum (2002), awarded to Ms Min Xu for her paper entitled " A Comparison of two methods for imputing missing income from household travel surveys"
- Yasoshima Prize for best paper presented at the 3rd Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS1999) awarded to Dr Pongrid Klungboonkrong for his paper entitled "A microcomputer-aided system for the multicriteria environmental impacts evaluation. The City of Unley Case Study Australia'
- 1999 William Fraser Commemorative Address (Old Senate Chamber) was presented by Professor Derek Scrafton to the Charted Institute of Transport
- Young Transport Professional of the Year, 1999 Awarded by the Chartered Institute of transport and Logistics South Australian Section to Dr Rocco Zito