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AET Awards

The AET Awards recognise contributions to both the Association and European Transport Conference.
The annual awards are presented at the European Transport Conference.

 

2023 AET Awards

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András Munkácsy, Chair of the AET Awards Committee (centre) presents the AET Excellency Award 2023 to Professor Pierluigi Coppola (left) and the Fellowship Award to Michael Bach (right).
 

AET Excellency Award

This award is given for noteworthy contributions to the Association’s activity in the past year. This acknowledgment is not only an award for outstanding efforts and achievements in this particular year but aims to serve also as an inspiration to other members.

2023 AET Excellency Award Winner

The 2023 Excellency Award was given to Professor Pierluigi Coppola for his contribution to the academic recognition of ETC, and particularly his recent efforts and commitment – as chair of the Board and later as a Board director – to maintain the general interest in online ETCs during the Covid-19 pandemic and to assist in the delivery of an in-person conference in Milan post-pandemic, in 2022 and 2023.

 

Previous Excellency Award Winners
2022

Jeffrey Howard, United Kingdom

Excellency Award

Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship

These awards are given in recognition of long-term dedication and sustained excellence in contributing to the vision, aims and objectives of AET. This includes an individual’s significant contribution to specific elements of the organisation, management and success of both the Association and European Transport Conference (and previous conferences) as well as through sustained contributions to annual conference programmes and other events for members and attendees.

 

2023 AET Excellency Award Winner

The 2023 Fellowship Award was given to Michael Bach for his dedication not only to the transport profession but also to AET and ETC.

He is always eager to bring transport and planning professionals together, facilitate discussion, learn from each other, make knowledge applicable in policy and practice, and challenge researchers, all for the purpose of creating better places for people. He has taken on both official and informal tasks within the organization, ranging from membership of the Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport Programme Committee, the working group on the AET long-term vision, to an “all-time” membership of the Council, chairing countless sessions at ETC, mentoring young delegates, and filling in for the committee chair in case of absence.

Michael is always open to discuss developments in our profession, has ongoing ambitions to improve AET and ETC, and is happy to share his knowledge with others. He is a keen advocate for connecting research, policy, and practice through AET and ETC, always looking for lessons to learn for policy and new questions to pose to research.

 

Previous Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship Winners
2022

Sally Scarlett, United Kingdom

Honorary Fellowship

Broos Baanders, Netherlands

Fellowship