European Transport Conference Awards

Goudappel Land-Use/Transportation Award

The Goudappel award for the best paper written for and presented in a Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport seminar was awarded to Carlijn van der Sluijs, Lara Borst and Kobus Zantema (Working at the municipality of Amsterdam in the Netherlands). Their paper “‘Sustainable strategies for urban infrastructure: a data-driven approach to bridge and quay wall restoration in Amsterdam” was chosen as the unanimous winner.

Goudappel Award Winners

 

	Carlijn van der Sluijs is a data researcher in the Traffic and Public Space department of the Municipality of Amsterdam. With a background in forensic toxicology, she now applies her data expertise to improve the city’s infrastructure and sustainability. Specializing in geospatial data, Carlijn develops models and algorithms that provide new insights into complex issues.
	Lara Borst is Innovation Manager at the Bridges and Quay Walls Program of the City of Amsterdam. She holds a master's degree in Transport, Infrastructure, and Logistics at Delft Technical University. She works, together with knowledge institutions, market parties, and other governments, on an innovative ecosystem for future-proof bridges and quay walls. One of the issues is the influence of and impact on traffic flows.
	Kobus Zantema is mobility researcher for the municipality of Amsterdam, with a focus on traffic modelling. He holds a master’s degree in Transport and Planning at Delft Technical University. As a researcher for the municipality of Amsterdam, most of his work consists of calculating the effects of new building projects on the city’s traffic network and keeping the Amsterdam traffic model up to date.

 

Previous Goudappel Award Winners

Jacobs Award for Most Innovative Use of Data

The Jacobs Data Award is given to the paper showing the most innovative use of data in transport policy, practice or research.

The winner of the 2024 Jacobs Award is "Overcoming Population Bias: Pathways to Enhance Smartcard Data with Home Location and Trip Purpose Information" by Joe Fenwick of Public Transport Service Planning, Transport for London. This paper was co-authored by Howard Wong & Sophie Levi-Kallin.

More about the Jacob's Award winning paper and Author

Jacobs Award Winner

Joe Fenwick is a transport planner at Transport for London (TfL) working in public transport service planning, where he specialises in travel demand modelling and analysis. He holds a computational chemistry degree from the University of Manchester, and a postgraduate degree in Urban Design from The Bartlett, University College London. At TfL, Joe has pioneered pathways to integrate research into industry practice. His research combines his computational modelling skillset with a deep knowledge of urban processes, aimed at fostering more inclusive and equitable transport planning.

Previous Jacobs Award Winners

Neil Mansfield Award

Neil Mansfield Award for the best paper from a sole author aged 35 or under. The Neil Mansfield award is given in the name of a brilliant young researcher in the UK who passed away at a young age. The award is administered by the AET Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum.

The Neil Mansfield Award Winner

 

Marco Sala is a technical specialist in transport planning. His professional activity is mainly focused on traffic analysis, based on construction of micro and macro simulation models. He also deals with urban spatial planning, specific studies on vehicle parking and feasibility studies. Other professionals contributed to the winning paper as co-authors: Giovanni Acciaro, Margherita Sartori, Espedito Saponaro, Andrea Lai and Eugenio Morello.

The Neil Mansfield Award Honourable Mention

Previous Neil Mansfield Award Winners

New for 2025: The Fabio Casiroli Award

The Fabio Casiroli Award is given to the best paper focusing on the concept of time-based urban mobility, in relation to accessibility, proximity, and social, economic, and environmental sustainability. This award dedicated to the founder of Systematica, who passed away 10 years ago.

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility Award

In 2024, based on the decision of the Awards Committee (Sally Scarlett, Austin Smyth, Pete Snelson, and András Munkácsy), the following members were honoured at a ceremony during the gala dinner of ETC2024 in Antwerp:

The Excellency Award for noteworthy efforts and achievements contributing to AET’s annual activities

The AET Excellency Award was given to Conall Mac Aongusa in recognition of his outstanding work leading the Transport and Mobility Forum. His leadership helped safeguard the future of AET and ETC during the most challenging period in its history—the COVID-19 pandemic. He initiated a series of online meetings (COVID-19 Conversations) as a prompt response to the lockdown and its effects on the transport sector. He also led the team that transformed these conversations into thematic webinars and, upon their success, into the Transport and Mobility Forum, which has since become a well-known monthly online event of AET. Starting in 2023, TMF has included an annual hybrid event, offering a second opportunity for members to meet in person and discuss pressing topics.

AET Fellowship

In 2024, Iain Macbriar became a Fellow of the Association in recognition of his official roles as Programme Committee Chair, Council and Election Committee member, as well as for his modesty and good humour, which have helped promote AET and, particularly, ETC as an annual opportunity for friends to meet.

For many years, Iain has been an active member of the Local Public Transport (LPT) Programme Committee. He has been a member of AET since its early years and rejoined the LPT committee in 2008, assuming the role of committee chair in 2012, which he held until 2019. The LPT committee has a tradition of convening its annual March/April meetings in different cities across Europe, during which authors are selected. Iain was the first to introduce technical visits during these meetings, inviting public transport operators and authorities to present their networks and policies. This initiative significantly enhanced member participation. Iain has dedicated considerable energy to organizing these visits, leveraging his extensive network of operators. In the committee’s selection process, he consistently prioritized the practical aspects of public transport operations, integrating them with research and policy considerations essential to the committee’s work.