William W. Millar Award
Established in 2012, the Award recognizes the best paper dealing with public transportation. The Award honors William W. Millar who served as the 1992 TRB Executive Committee Chair; as a TRB Executive Committee member from 1987 to 1995, and ex officio member from 1996 to 2011; as Chair of the TRB panel that provided the rationale and blueprint for the Transit Cooperative Research Program; and as President of the American Public Transportation Association from 1996 to 2011.
Selection Process
The Executive Committee of TRB has authorized annual presentation of a limited number of awards for outstanding papers published by TRB and selected through peer-review under the Technical Activities Council.
Past Recipients
2022
ASHLEY HIGHTOWER, ABUBAKR ZIEDAN, CASSIDY CROSSLAND, and CANDACE BRAKEWOOD, Current Practices and Potential Rider Benefits of Fare Capping Policies in the United States
2021
WESLEY DARLING, EMILY CARPENTER, TAMI JOHNSON-PRAINO, CANDACE BRAKEWOOD, AND CAROLE TURLEY VOULGARIS; Comparison of Reduced Fare Programs for Low Income Transit Riders
2020
No Award Presented (COVID-19)
2019
CECILIA FEELEY; Validation of the Paratransit Skills Assessment for Paratransit Travel and Mobility of Adults on the Autism Spectrum
2018
GABRIEL E. SÁNCHEZ-MARTÍNEZ, LAUREL PAGET-SEEKINS, CHRISTOPHER W. SOUTHWICK, and JOHN P. ATTANUCCI; Bus Load Inference and Crowding Performance Evaluation Through Disaggregate Analysis of Fare Transaction, Vehicle Location, and Passenger Count Data
2017
JOHN PRESTON, JAMES PRITCHARD, and BEN WATERSON; Train Overcrowding: Investigating the Use of Better Information Provision to Mitigate the Issues
2016
MUSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN, GRAHAM CURRIE, and CARLYN MUIR; Development and Application of a Scale to Measure Station Design Quality for Personal Safety
2015
PATRICIA HENDREN, JUSTIN ANTOS, YVONNE CARNEY, and RICHARD HARCUM; Transit Travel Time Reliability: Shifting the Focus from Vehicles to Customers
2014
DAVID KING, SIVA SRIKUKENTHIRAN, and AMER SHALABY; Using
MassMotion to Analyze Crowd Congestion and Mitigation Measures at Interchange
Subway Stations: Case of Bloor–Yonge Station in Toronto, Canada
2013
BEN CUMMINS, GREG SPITZ, MARGARET CAMPBELL, and TARA P. O’MALLEY; How Close is Close Enough? Statistical Equivalence of Onboard Versus Online Surveys of Transit Customers
2012
GRAHAM CURRIE, ALEXA DELBOSC, AND JAMES REYNOLDS; Modeling Dwell Time for Streetcars in Melbourne, Australia, and Toronto, Canada