Kitamura Paper Award

The Transportation Research Board of the U.S. National Academies has established an award in honor of Ryuichi Kitamura and his contributions in the areas of activity-based analysis, travel demand modeling, time-use research, dynamic analysis of travel behavior, travel survey methods, and transportation policy studies. The award is given at the annual TRB meeting for the year’s best student paper in one of these areas. Details on the award and eligibility are available here.

A cash prize supported by contributions to the Ryuichi Kitamura Fund is given to the student winners of the TRB Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award following presentation of the paper to a UC Davis audience.

2022 Award Winner

Noah Wexler
University of Minnesota
“Gauging Public Attitudes and Preferences Toward a Hypothetical Future Public Shared Automated Vehicle System: Examining the Roles of Gender, Race, Income, and Health”

2019 Award Winner

Rongsheng Chen
University of Minnesota
“Dynamic User Equilibrium of Mobility-on-Demand System with Linear Programming Rebalancing Strategy”

Susan Handy and Annesha Enam

2018 Award Winner

Annesha Enam
University of Connecticut (UConn)

Time Allocation Behavior of 20th Century American Generations: GI Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials

Susan Handy and Sebastian Astroza

2017 Award Winner

Sebastian Astroza
University of Texas at Austin

Paper: Transportation Planning to Accommodate Needs of Wind Energy Projects

Zhibin Chen and Dan Sperling

2016 Award Winner

Zhibin Chen
University of Florida

Paper: Analysis of Advanced Management of Curbside Parking

Susan Handy and Rodney Brown

2015 Award Winner

Rodney Brown
University of California, Davis

Paper: Why Don’t Teenagers Drive Anymore? Factors Associated With Delayed Driver’s License Acquisition Among High School Students

Jiwon Kim and Susan Handy

2014 Award Winner

Dr. Jiwon Kim
The University of Queensland

Paper: How Many Runs? Analytical Methods for Optimal Scenario Sampling to Estimate the Variance of Travel Time Distributions in Vehicular Traffic Networks

Maria Kamargianni and Susan Handy

2013 Award Winner

Maria Kamargianni
University of the Aegean

Paper: Development of a Hybrid Choice Model to Investigate the Effects of Teenagers’ Attitudes Towards Walking and Cycling on Mode Choice Behavior

Pat Mokhtarian and Matthias Sweet

2012 Award Winner

Matthias N. Sweet and Rachel Weinberger
University of Pennsylvania

Paper: Integrating Walkability into Planning Practice

Pat Mokhtarian, Joshua A. Auld, and Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian

2011 Award Winner

Joshua A. Auld and Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian
University of Illinois at Chicago

Paper: Planning Constrained Destination Choice in the ADAPTS Activity-Based Model

David Gaker and Joan Walker

2010 Award Winner

David Gaker, Yanding Zheng, and Joan Walker
University of California, Berkeley

Paper: Experimental Economics in Transportation: A Focus on Social Influences and the Provision of Information

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