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Grants & Awards

Details of grants & awards from previous years may be found in the ITLS Annual Reports.

Matthew Beck

  • CAITR-2008 Rodney Vaughan Memorial Prize, awarded his paper Variable user charging: Experiences and extensions in a world of carbon emissions

Demi Chung

  • AFAANZ/IAAER Conference 2008 (Sydney, Australia, 6-8 July 2008) Best Paper Award for the “public sector not-for-profit” stream for her paper Public Private Partnerships in Transport Infrastructure: Past, Present and Beyond.
  • Australian Transport Research Forum David Willis Memorial Prize for her paper "Private Provision of Transport Infrastructure - Unveiling the Inconvenient Truth in New South Wales".

Demi Chung, Professor David Hensher and Dr John Rose

  • Identifying risk perception of various stakeholder groups to a public private partnership tollroad contract. Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Research Grant scheme [2008: $7,500]

Dr Stephen Greaves

  • Assessment of policies for reducing externalities of road-based freight in Sydney. NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change [2008: $30,000]
  • A pilot survey using GPS technology to validate travel data captured by traditional diary-based methods. State Government of Victoria [2008: $75,000]
  • Modelling the environmental impacts of commercial vehicle tours and freight management policies in urban areas. Australian Research Council Discovery Project [2008: $62,568; 2009: $66,774; 2010: $71,112]

Professor David Hensher

  • Secured Chair in Public Transport in ITLS, funded by NSW Government [2008-2012: $1m]
  • Dean's Citation for Teaching for unit of study – Transport and Logistics Economics [2008]

Dr Ada Suk-Fung Ng

  • A two-stage scheduling model for the in-flight catering service (with Dr Daniel Oron). Faculty of Economics and Business Research Grant [2009: $12,000]
  • A zoning problem with response-time. Faculty of Economics and Business Research Grant [2009: $8,000]

Dr John Rose

  • Community preferences for organ donation and allocation in Australia. Australian Research Council Grant (with Dr K. Howard, A/Prof S. Jan, Dr A. Cass, A/Prof S.J. Chadban, Prof R.D. Allen) [2009-11: $240,000]
  • Policy implications based on customer preferences for end of life product recycling: A stated preference application for reverse logistics. Faculty of Economics and Business Grant [2008: $8,000]

Dr Peter Stopher

  • Ohio GPS Household Travel Survey, Ohio Department of Transportation [2008: $30,000; 2009: $200,850; 2010: $12,800; 2011: $16,800]