The World Society for Transport and Land Use Research presents awards at each Symposium. The conference took place last week, and I had the honour of bestowing the Best Paper and Best Student-Led Paper awards (and the honour of being the namesake of one of the awards). Congratulations to the winners who are:

David Levinson Award for Best Paper

WSTLUR 2021 (Portland)

• Viewpoint: Turning streets into housing
  Adam Millard-Ball, University of California Los Angeles 

Honorable mention best paper

• The inevitability of automobility: how private car use is perpetuated in a Greenfield estate
  Jennifer Kent, University of Sydney 

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Best Student-Led Paper 

WSTLUR 2021 (Portland)

• Traffic-Land Use Compatibility and Street Design Impacts of Automated Driving in Vienna, Austria
  Emilia Brucke and Aggelos Soteropolis, Technical University of Vienna 

Honorable mention best student-led paper

• Traffic Noise Feedback in Agent-Based Integrated Land-Use/Transport Models
  Nico Kuehnel (Technical University of Munich), Dominik Ziemke (Technical University of Dresden, and Rolf Moeckel (Technical University of Munich) 

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Best PhD Dissertation

WSTLUR 2021 (Portland)

• Xiang Jacob Yan – current affiliation University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
  Thesis: “Redefining the Value of Accessibility: Toward a Better Understanding of How Accessibility Shapes Household Residential Location and Travel Choices” (Filed at University of Michigan, 2019) 

Honorable Mention Best PhD Dissertation

• Lindsay M. Braun – current affiliation University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Thesis: “Geographies of (dis)advantage in walking and cycling: Perspectives on equity and social justice in planning for active transportation in U.S. cities” (Filed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018)