Student Paper Competition

NCITE awards $500 annually for the best student paper pertaining to transportation engineering or transportation planning. Papers are judged on the following criteria:

1. Technical merit
2. Clarity and organization
3. Completeness as related to stated purpose
4. Applicability to current issues facing the transportation engineering profession
    

2011 Application Form

2011 Winner

Shaker Rabban "Different Payment Methods Impact on Transit Speed and Performance"  PDF

Past Winners

2010 - Shanjiang Zhu
"A Portfolio Theory of Route Choice"  

2009 - Pavithra Parthasarathi
"Post-Construction Evaluation of Forecast Accuracy"

2007 - Xinkai Wu, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
"Improving Queue Size Estimation for Minnesota's Stratified Zone Metering Strategy

2006 - Nebiyou Tilahun, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
“Travel Time Reliability in Route Choice using Adaptive Stated Preference”