Smeed Prize Winners, 2019

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Congratulations to Fredrik Monsuur of Loughborough University who won the Smeed Prize at the 51st Annual UTSG Conference, hosted by the University of Leeds. The second place winner, also from Loughborough University, was Nicolette Formosa. Fredrik’s paper was entitled “Quantifying the impact of train delays on passenger satisfaction”, while Nicolette’s was entitled “Vehicle-level conflict detection using deep learning”. Both students, and their supervisors, are to be commended for the quality of their work.

Nicolette Formosa (2nd Prize) and Fredrik Monsuur (1st Prize)

2018 Smeed Prize Winners

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Congratulations to Michael Nattrass of UCL who won the Smeed Prize at the 50th Universities’ Transport Study Group Conference, hosted by UCL in London between 3-5 January 2018. Two joint second prize winners this year were Shuo Li of Newcastle University and Hannah Budnitz of the University of Birmingham.
Michael Nattrass’ paper was entitled: Infrastructuring when Cycling: How those Cycling, Walking and Driving come to justify the everyday use of the Public Highway.
Shuo Li’s paper was entitled: Investigating the effects of age and driving disengagement level on drivers’ take-over control performance in Highly Automated Vehicles.
Hannah Budnitz’ paper was entitled: Exploring the Influence of Weather on the Choice Not to Travel.
Eight students competed for the prize this year and the judges commended the high standard of entries received.

2016 Smeed Prize Winners

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Congratulations to Severine Marechal of Imperial College who won the Smeed Prize at the 48th Universities’ Transport Study Group Conference, hosted by the University of the West of England, Bristol and the University of Bristol from 6-8 January 2016, and to Jianlin Luan also from Imperial College, who was awarded second prize.

Congratulations to Severine Marechal of Imperial College who won the Smeed Prize at the 48th Universities’ Transport Study Group Conference, hosted by the University of the West of England, Bristol and the University of Bristol from 6-8 January 2016, and to Jianlin Luan also from Imperial College, who was awarded second prize.

Severine’s paper was entitled: Believe it or not? Incorporating credibility when modelling information acquisition and use in commuter behaviour.

Jianlin’s paper was entitled: A framework for designing cooperation strategies for the Local Authority and route guidance service providers.

Six students competed for the prizes and the judges commended the high standard of entries received.

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Images courtesy of Bhagesh Sachania Photography