TSS Dissertation Abstracts—Abstracts for the 1999 Transportation Science Section Dissertation Prize Competition

The TSS Dissertation Prize is the most prestigious award a young scholar in our field can receive. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those completed and submitted between June 1, 1998 and May 31, 1999 in the general area of transportation science. To be considered, the thesis supervisor must nominate the dissertation.

Abstracts for the eight submissions are provided below, with the winners listed first and the remaining submission in alphabetical order. Each provides a glimpse of transportation research as viewed through the eyes of our next generation of scholars.

—First prize: Transportation Network Policy Modeling for Congestion and Pollution Control: A Variational Inequality Approach by Padma Ramanujam

—Honorable mention: Efficient Capacity Allocation in a Collaborative Air Transport System by William Hall

—Honorable mention: Exact and Heuristic Dynamic Programming Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands by Nicola Secomandi

—Modeling Drivers' Acceleration and Lane Changing Behavior by Kazi Iftekhar Ahmed

—A Multi-Objective Integrated Large-Scale Optimized Ramp Metering Control System for Freeway/Surface-Street Traffic Management by Douglas M. Gettman

—Optimizing Highway Alignments with Genetic Algorithms by Jyh-Cherng Jong

—Analysis and Optimization of Transit Network Design with Integrated Routing and Scheduling by Young-Jae Lee

—A Framework for Representing and Solving Dynamic Resource Transformation Problem by Joel Shapiro