Best Paper Award
Recognizing the best paper presented at the TRF Annual Forum each year.
Award History
Past Recipients
To be announced
"The monetary and greenhouse gas value of the United States crop distribution network"
"The On-Time Performance Effects of a Policy Change in Airport Slot Restrictions: A Synthetic Control Analysis"
"Health Factors, Mode Choice, and Time-Cost Trade-offs: Evidence from Out-Patient Trips to Health Care Facilities"
"Establishing the first economic regulation of the Mexican rail concessions"
"Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles"
"Results from a Case Study: Impacts of Ride-Sharing on Urban Mobility Trends and Vehicle Stock in U.S.A."
"A Second-Best Dilemma: Freight Trucks, Externalities, and the Dispatch Effect"
"Modeling Supply and Demand in the Chinese Automobile Industry"
University of California at Davis
"Does Market Concentration Foster Scheduled Arrival Reliability? A Case Study of Ten U.S. Airports"
Also: Ian Savage and Caroline Miller (Northwestern University) — "Does the Demand Response to Transit Fare Increases Vary by Income?"
"Accounting for Natural Gas Vehicles in Regional Auto Markets? Estimates for the State of Texas, U.S."
University of Houston
"The Magnitudes of Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Demand for U.S. Domestic Air Passengers"
North Dakota State University
"Introduction of Heavy Axle Loads by the North American Rail Industry, 1990 to 2012"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Impacts of the Panama Canal Expansion on World Cotton Trade"
Texas A&M University
"A Model and Case Study of the Impacts of Stochastic Capacity on Freeway Traffic Flow Benefits and Costs"
Portland State University
"Predicting Arrival Delays: An Application of Spatial Analysis"
Federal Aviation Administration
"Ownership Forms Matter for Airport Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Investigation of Worldwide Airports"
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
"Railroad Cost Curves Over Thirty Years – What Can They Tell Us?"
St. Ambrose University
"Container Ports and Their Hinterland: Multimodal Access and Satellite Terminals within the Extended Gateway Concept"
Delft University of Technology
"Trespassing on the Railroad"
Northwestern University
"A New Public-Private Partnership Model for Road Pricing Implementation"
Federal Highway Administration
"Why Has Safety Improved at Rail-Highway Crossings?"
Northwestern University
"Management Objectives and the Causes of Mass Transportation"
Northwestern University
"Evaluating the Logistics Economic Impacts of Extending Six Hundred Foot Locks on the Upper Mississippi River: A Linear Programming Approach"
"Assessing the Relative Efficiency and Quality of Motor Carrier Maintenance Strategies: An Application of Data Entry Envelopment Analysis"
"Motor Bus Deregulation and Racial/Gender Effects: Earnings and Employment"
"Full Cost Accounting for Transportation Decision Making: Estimates, Implications and Applications"
"A Cost-Benefit Analysis of United States Motor Carrier Safety Programs"
"Variation in Producer Responses to Automobile Fuel Economy Mandates"
"Service Quality and Motor Carrier Costs: An Empirical Analysis"
"Rail Branch Lines at Risk: An Application of the Exponential Survival Model on Kansas Duration Data"
"Alternative Freight Car Maintenance Policies with Attractive Reliability/Cost Relationships"
"Strategies of Challenging Airlines at Hub-Dominated Airports"
"Local Rural Roads: A Policy Analysis"
"Auctioning Runway Slots: Long Term Implications"
"Deregulation's Impact on Airline Safety"
"Impact of the Staggers Act on Variability and Uncertainty of Farm Product Prices"
"Implications of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 for Level and Variability of Country Elevator Bid Prices"
Also: Donald J. Harmatuck — "Back Haul Pricing: Mathematical Programming and Game Theory Approaches to Allocating Joint Costs"
Also: Jeffrey L. Jordan, Dieudonne Mann, S. E. Pressia, and C. Thai — "Managing the Transportation of Perishable Commodities: Temperature Control and Stacking Patterns"
"An Examination of Risk Costs Associated with the Movement of Hazardous Materials"
"Economics of Density in Railroad Cost-Finding: Applications to Rail Form A"
"Inland Waterway User Taxes: Their Impacts on Corn, Wheat and Soybean Flows and Transport Costs"