Application Due Date: February 1st 2019
The International Transportation Online Forum at the OECD arranges a Yearly Top for Transportation Ministers from around the globe to meet scientists, market leaders and agents of civil society and take a look at tactical policy problems dealing with the sector. Continuing a long custom of research study on transportation problems to notify the policy-making procedure, the International Transportation Online forum’s Research study Centre supplies top-level research study input to the Yearly Top.
To motivate and reward innovative reflection and analysis from young scientists, the International Transportation Online forum will as soon as again present its “Young Scientist of the Year Award” at the 2019 Top tobe kept in Leipzig, Germany (22-24 May). The primary goal of the International Transportation Online forum’s Young Scientist of the Year Award is to highlight the significance of transportation research study for sound transportation policy solution and execution, and to cultivate closer links in between transportation policy and research study. For 2019, the style of the Top is ” Transportation Connection for Regional Combination”.
Requirements
The Young Scientist of the Year Award is open to scientists under 35 years of age at the time of closing of applications who have actually carried out the research study provided in the sent paper in an organization, university or consultancy company situated in a member country1of the International Transportation Online Forum.
The scientist should be the primary author of the paper.
The term paper might evaluate any element associated to transfer connection for local combination, such as, however not restricted to, transportation network connection, multimodal connection, the advancement of transportation passages, their influence on the economy or society, or the needed instutional or regulative structures to attain better connection and combination.
The work can be quantitative or qualitative and originate from any of the scholastic fields connected to transfer.
The winning paper will propose advances from the present state of understanding in the domain and be methodologically extensive. Documents ought to not go beyond 25 pages (single spacing), leaving out recommendations and annexes and must be composed in English or French.
Documents released in 2018 or 2019, in addition to unpublished documents, are welcome.
Application Process
Prospects for the award should finish the online application, consisting of a short summary of the paper in English (optimum 200 words), even if the paper remains in French.
Reward:
Submissions will be taken a look at by a global panel of specialists from the transportation and transportation economics research study sectors, under the aegis of the International Transportation Online forum’s Research study Centre.
The jury will consist of agents from the Transportation Research Study Committee and the President of the World Conference on Transportation ResearchSociety( WCTRS).
A reward of EUR 5 000 will be granted.
The award winner will be welcomed to get the award at the main award event which will be held throughout the 2019 Top(22-24 May) in Leipzig, Germany. Honorary benefit awards might likewise exist.
For additional information, please contact:
Elisabeth WINDISCH
International Transportation Online forum 2 rue André Pascal, F-75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
Tel. + 33 (0 )1 45 24 9728 Fax. + 33 (0 )1 45 24 97 42 Elisabeth.WINDISCH@itf-oecd.org
For Additional Information:
See the Authorities Web Page of the International Transportation Online Forum Young Scientist of the Year Award 2019
