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Last updated on Friday, February 22, 2008

Each year, the TGSG awards at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers two prizes for outstanding student research in the field of transport geography. The first prize is for a Ph.D. dissertation while the second is for a Master thesis. Both prizes involve an honorarium of $250 each. Runners-up for the two awards may, at the discretion of the TGSG Board, be awarded $100 to defray the costs of presenting their work at the annual Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference; no more than five such travel awards will be given in any academic year.

  • Eligibility. A Ph.D. or a Master thesis that was completed during the previous academic year. The thesis has to be submitted by a member of the Association of American Geographers, which could be the student, the director of the thesis or the chair of the department. Although thesis in geography are preferred, thesis coming from related disciplines are accepted. A thesis can only be submitted once.
  • Deadline: A copy of the thesis (preferably in an electronic format such as PDF) has to be sent to the Chair of the TGSG by December 15.

List of Previous Awards

Year Award Name Institution Title
2008 M.A. Lisa J. Murawski University of California-Santa Barbara "Maximal Covering Network Improvement Problem"
  Ph.D. Barton Cramer University of Iowa "American Freight Rail: Regulatory Evolution, Strategic Rejuvenation, and the Revival of an Ailing Industry"
2007 M.A. Laura G. Smith George Washington University "Neighborhoods Apart: How the Physical Environment Reinforces Concentrated Poverty and Isolation East of Washington's Anacostia River"
  Ph.D. Xuwei Chen Texas State University - San Marcos "Microsimulation of Evacuation Strategies"
2006 M.A. Bradley Lane Indiana University "Plains, Trains, and Automobiles: Land Use, Rail Transit, and Urban Travel in Selected Us Cities"
  Ph.D. Hongbo Yu University of Tennessee "Temporal GIS Design of an Extended Time-Geographic Framework for Physical and Virtual Activities"
2005 M.A. Sean Tierney Arizona State University "Airline and Airport Choice by Passengers in Multi-Airport Regions: The Effect of Southwest Airlines"
2004 Ph.D. Julie Cidell University of Minnesota "Scales of Airport Expansion: Globalization, Regionalization, and Local Land Use"
  M.A. Jessica Tharpe University of Tennessee "Sustainable Transportation: A Case Study of Telework and Carpool in Atlanta, Georgia"
2003 Ph.D. Xiaohong Xin University of Tennessee "An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach for Land Use - Transportation Interaction: The Design and Implementation of Transland Spatio-Temporal Data Model"
2002 Ph.D. Joseph Weber Ohio State University “Evaluating the Effects of Context and Scale on Individual Accessibility: A Multilevel Approach”
2001 M.A. Julie Cidell University of Minnesota “The Conversion of Military Bases to Civilian Airports”
  Ph.D. Agatino La Rosa University of Tennessee “Integrating Location and Logistics Models”
2000 M.A. Owen Robatino (co-winner) University of Delaware “Evaluating Uses of Abandoned Rights of Way with a Case Study of the Pomeroy and Newark Railroad.”
  M.A. Xiaohong Xin (co-winner) University of Tennessee “A Spatial Decision Support System for Designing Solid Waste Collection Routes in Rural Counties”
  Ph.D. Brooks C. Pearson Indiana University “An Estimation of Potential Production of Agri-based Ethanol and its Contribution to Transportation Emissions”
1999 M.A. Henry J. Rademacher (co-winner) University of Missouri “Landscape Interpretation and Historical Geography on Missouri’s Katy Trail”
  M.A. Kerry Wood (co-winner) Lincoln University (NZ) “Bicycle Crashes in New Zealand”
  Ph.D. Garth Banninga Indiana University “Static and Dynamic Analyses of Average Worktrip Travel Times for a Large Set of U.S. Cities.”
1998 M.A. Gayle Wilkinson Arizona State University “Economic Reform and Jobs-Housing Imbalance in Chinese Cities: The Case of Shenyang, China”
  Ph.D. Melissa Joy Loughlin University of Minnesota “Overseas Air Cargo Service, Airborne Export-Producing Industries, and U.S. Cities, 1980-1995”
1997 M.A. ?    
  Ph.D. ?    
1996 M.A. Eric C. Neubauer Ohio State University ?
  Ph.D Christopher J. Sutton University of Denver "The Socioeconomic, Land Use and Land Value Impacts of Beltways in the Denver Metropolitan Area"
1995 M.A. Melissa Joy Loughlin University of Minnesota ?
  Ph.D. Timothy Strauss University of Washington "Spatial Assessments of Infrastructure: The Importance of Space in Analyses of the Relationship Between Public Capital and Economic Activity"
1994 M.A. Katherine Jones University of Kentucky “Impact of Double Stack Rail Service on U.S. Ports”
  Ph.D. Stefan Arredondo Indiana University “Railroad Independence in Southern Africa: The Case of the Southern Africa Development Conference”

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