Conference Awards
The ITEA Annual Conference features two paper prizes:
- Best Paper by a Junior Researcher Prize
- Best Overall Paper Prize
The Scientific Committee awards the prizes. In some years, ties have resulted the Scientific Committee awarding two prizes. The titles in the table below link to a working paper or published version of the awarded paper if available.
| Year | Location | Prize | Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Bergamo, Italy | Best Overall | Alice Ciccone, Cloé Garnache, Gøril L. Andreassen | Road Pricing: Travel Behavior and Public Support |
| 2026 | Bergamo, Italy | Best by a Junior Researcher | Eva Gossiaux, Mohamed Bahlali | The Equilibrium Effects of Urban Air Quality Policies: Evidence from the Grand Paris Low-Emission Zone |
| 2025 | Chicago, US | Best Overall | Pearl Li | Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? The Distributional Effects of Dynamic Tolling |
| 2025 | Chicago, US | Best by a Junior Researcher | Adam Steven Harris | Decision-making with machine prediction: Evidence from predictive maintenance in trucking |
| 2025 | Chicago, US | Best by a Junior Researcher | Daniel Velasquez | Highways, Commuting and Trade: Unpacking Suburban Growth |
| 2024 | Leeds, UK | Best Overall | Roman Zakharenko | Who Should Not Share? The Merits of Withholding Unused Vehicles |
| 2024 | Leeds, UK | Best Overall | Daniel Vignon | Safety, liability, and insurance markets in the age of automated driving |
| 2024 | Leeds, UK | Best by a Junior Researcher | Tainá Pacheco | Downs’ Law in Practice: Road Congestion and Travel Behaviour |
| 2023 | Santander, Spain | Best Overall | Alex Anas | Downs’s Law Under the Lens of Theory: Roads Lower Congestion and Increase Distance Traveled |
| 2023 | Santander, Spain | Best by a Junior Researcher | Jan Wessel | Space Wars – Finding an Economically Efficient Allocation of Street Space Across Different Transport Modes |
| 2022 | Toulouse, France | Best Overall | Erik Verhoef | An Empirical Macroscopic Bottleneck Model for the Randstad Area |
| 2022 | Toulouse, France | Best by a Junior Researcher | Gianmarco Andreana | Aiding Airlines for the Benefit of Whom? An Applied Game-Theoretic Approach |
| 2021 | Virtual (Rome, Italy) | Best Overall | Jinwon Kim | Congestion Costs and Scheduling Preferences of Car Commuters in California: Estimates Using Big Data |
| 2021 | Virtual (Rome, Italy) | Best by a Junior Researcher | Julian A. Gomez-Gelvez | Congestion Charges Under Market Power: An Application to Ride Hailing in Bogotá, Colombia |
| 2019 | Paris, France | Best Overall | Federico Boffa, Alessandro Fedele, Alberto Iozzi | Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless cars |
| 2019 | Paris, France | Best by a Junior Researcher | Naoshi Doi | Pass-through with endogenous quality: an Empirical Study of Per-passenger and Per-flight Airport Charges |
| 2018 | Hong Kong | Best Overall | Roman Zakharenko | Algorithms and Mechanism Design for Traffic Management |
| 2018 | Hong Kong | Best by a Junior Researcher | Changmin Jiang | Jet Fuel Hedging, Operational Efficiency Improvement and Carbon Tax |
| 2017 | Barcelona, Spain | Best Overall | Martin Adler, Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, Jos Van Ommeren | Road congestion and public transit |
| 2017 | Barcelona, Spain | Best by a Junior Researcher | Eleni Bardaka, Michael Delgado, Raymond Florax | Causal Identification of Gentrification and Local Spatial Spillover Effects of Urban Rail Infrastructure |
| 2016 | Santiago, Chile | Best Overall | Tiziana D’Alfonso, Alessandro Avenali, Claudio Leporelli, Giorgio Matteucci, Alberto Nastasi, Pierfrancesco Reverberi | An incentive pricing mechanism for efficient airport slot allocation in Europe |
| 2016 | Santiago, Chile | Best Overall | Eren Inci, Ozan Bakis, Rifat Ozan Senturk | Unbundling Curbside Parking Costs from Housing Prices and Rents |
| 2016 | Santiago, Chile | Best by a Junior Researcher | Yoon Sang Moon | Internal Structure of Consumer Cities: Core and Subcenters |
| 2015 | Oslo, Norway | Best Overall | Mogens Fosgerau | Congestion in the bathtub |
| 2015 | Oslo, Norway | Best by a Junior Researcher | Wei Liu, Nikolas Geroliminis | Modeling the Morning Commute with Cruising-for-parking: an MFD Approach |
| 2014 | Toulouse, France | Best Overall | Achim Czerny, Anming Zhang | How to Mix Per-flight and Per-passenger Based Airport Charges |
| 2014 | Toulouse, France | Best by a Junior Researcher | Anders Munk-Nielsen | Diesel Cars and Environmental Policy |
| 2013 | Chicago, US | Best Overall | Jonathan D. Hall | Pareto Improvements from Lexus Lanes: The Case For Pricing a Portion of the Lanes on Congested Highways |
| 2013 | Chicago, US | Best by a Junior Researcher | Alejandro Molnar | Congesting the commons: A test for strategic congestion externalities in the airline industry |
| 2012 | Berlin | Best Overall | Daniel Coublucq, Marc Ivaldi, Gerard McCullough | Static-Dynamic Efficiency Trade-off in the US rail freight industry: Assessment of Open Access Policy |
| 2012 | Berlin | Best by a Junior Researcher | Antonio Russo | Voting on Road Congestion Policy |