PIARC

PIARC Prizes

PIARC awarded prizes for the most outstanding papers in different categories.
The PIARC Prizes are intended to encourage innovation, recognize professional competence, highlight topics of particular interest, promote the interests of developing countries and stimulate long-term reflection on the future of transport systems.

Winners at the 27th World Road Congress (2023, Prague)

Prize Category	Prize Sponsor	Author	Paper Title
Young professionals	Canada-Québec	Tetsuri KAJI, Tamotsu YOSHINAKA (Japan)	Development of Solar Pavement in Japan and its Contribution to Carbon Neutrality
LMICs	Japan Road Association	Fernanda OLIVEIRA DE SOUSA (Brazil)	Hazroad - Monitoring System for Hazard Prevention in Highways - A Case Study in Brazilian Federal Highways
Road safety	USA	Laura Rey Ramos, Ana I. Blanco Bergareche, Ramiro Martínez Rodríguez, Gabriela Ruggiero Pelay and Gema Leiro García (Spain)	Road Management System in Adverse Weather Conditions: Fog and Wind
Best innovation	Belgium	Mitsuru YAMAZAKI, Takashi KITAMURA, Hideki SAITO, Takamasa NIIBE, Naoto OGAWA and Atsushi YASHIMA (Japan)	Efficient Safety Assessment of Expressway Slope Reinforced by Ground Anchors Based on Residual Tensile Load Evaluated by Vibration Method
Climate change and resilience	Austroads	Fernando JIMÉNEZ, Laura CRESPO, Alberto GIL, Laura PARRA, Felipe COLLAZOS and Mónica ALONSO (Spain)	Risk Thresholds Related to Climate Change in Road Infrastructures in Spain
Sustainable mobility	Spain	Shoichi SUZUKI, Keisuke SHIMONO, Manabu UMEDA, Katsuyasu IWASAKI, Kimihiko NAKANO and Yoshihiro SUDA (Japan)	Lessons Learned through Automated Driving Bus Operation and Efforts Using C-ITS Solutions
Road design, construction, maintenance and operation	Germany	Rob HEYWOOD, Torill PAPE, Duncan WARD, Peter SHAW, Alan VOLL and Mandy HALDANE (Australia)	Bridge Monitoring and Data-driven Structural Asset Management
Organisation and administration	South Korea	José-Alfonso BALBUENA-CRUZ and Carlos-Daniel MARTNER-PEYRELONGUE (Mexico)	Identify and Solve the Problems of Access to Basic Services in Rural Communities through the Integrated Rural Access Planning System

Winners at the 26th World Road Congress (2019, Abu Dhabi)

Prize Category	Prize Sponsor	Author	Paper Title
Young professionals	Switzerland	Anne de Bortoli(France)	What road resurfacing strategies for sustainable development? Case study on a French motorway section
Developing countries	Malaysia	Robert Geddes, Presley Chilonda, Emmerentian Mbabaz and Tamba Amara (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone)	Economic growth through effective rural road asset management
Safety of road users and staff	Australia	Alberto Mendoza Diaz, Maria Cadengo and Carlota Andrade (Mexico)	Efforts in Mexico to implement a road safety audit system
Best innovation	Belgium	Adriana Martínez, Hani Baloochi, Diego Aponte, Marilda Barra, Rodrigo Miró, Juan José Cepriá, Roberto Orejana and Asier Oleaga (Spain)	Alternative secondary raw material for road construction based on pulp and paper industry reject. Paperchain project
Sustainable development	Germany	Martin Lafrance and Jérôme Guay (Canada-Québec)	Creating biodiversity and improving the landscape by building a freeway interchange at the heart of the city (City of Quebec, Canada)
Sustainable development	Czech Republic	Marie Colin and Fabien Palhol (France)	Adaptation of road standards, guidelines and regulations to climate change
Road design and construction	USA	Iswandaru Widyatmoko, Giacomo D'Angelo, Yi Xu, Robin Hudson-Griffiths, Arash Khojinian, Malcolm Simms and David Giles (United Kingdom)	Opportunities and challenges with automation in road construction and condition monitoring in England
Road maintenance and operation	United Kingdom	Eloy Parra Melgar, Teresa López Lara and Juan Bosco Hernández (Mexico)	Substitution of asphalt with waste expanded polystyrene

Honorable mentions

In some categories, there were many quality papers and the jury decided to award prizes to honor the authors' contributions.

• Young professionals
  Jens Dierkeand Rainer Lehmann, Germany
  Intelligent controlled compact parking -Pilot implementation of a new parking management system for trucks
• Best innovation
  Chris Waite and Hugh Gillies, United Kingdom
  Emergency communications at the Forth Bridges
• Best innovation
  Anne Kjerkreit and James Odeck, Norway
  Wider economic benefits of transport systems - How Norway is working with it
• Road maintenance and operation
  Keigo Hatakeyama, Kentaro Koshi and Tomoki Okamura, Japan
  Development of an environment friendly cold mix asphalt

Winners at the 25th World Road Congress (2015, Seoul)

Prize Category	Prize Sponsor	Author	Paper Title
Young professionals	Mexico	Catherine Roh(New Zealand)	Proactive management of slope hazards -Waioeka Gorge pilot study
Developing countries	Japan	Carlos Andrade Neto, Jorge Rufino and Iván Machado (Angola,Cuba)	Taking decisions in the rehabilitation of flexible pavements based on non-destructive measurements
Safety of road users and staff	Australia- NewZealand	Paul de Leurand David Hill (Canada)	Justifying road safety investments for locations without collisions by quantifying road safety risk
Sustainable development	Andorra	Toni-Petteri Paju, Finland and Kenneth Yamu (Papua New Guinea)	Pilot project to quantifying social benefits of road rehabilitation for project prioritization
Road design and road construction	Belgium	Anne Kjerkreit and James Odeck (Norway)	The accuracy of ex-ante cost benefit analysis –evidence from the Norwegian road sector
Road maintenance and operation	Saudi Arabia	David Hinds (Australia)	Risk management in action on Queensland’s reconstruction program
Roads and Intermodality	Canada- Quebec	Sonja Heikkilä (Finland)	Revolutionizing personal mobility by offering mobility as one full service
Maurice Milne prize for innovation	United Kingdom	Not aplicable

Honorable mentions

In some categories, there were many quality papers and the jury decided to award prizes to honor the authors' contributions.

• Developing countries
  Anadelys Alonso Aenlle, Eduardo Tejeda Piusseaut and Reynier Moll Martínez, Cuba
  The use of natural additives for the development of warm asphalt mixtures in Cuba
• Safety of road users and road workers
  Rob McInerney, Hafez Alavi, Bill Bui and Dean Hislop, Australia
  Road Safety Impact Bonds -The financial business case
• Sustainable development
  Anna Arvidsson, Sweden
  The Winter Model –Socio-economic cost calculations for the future
• Road design and construction
  Sabine Werkmeister, Frohmut Wellner, Gustavo Canon Falla and Markus Oeser, Germany
  New analytical design approach for thin surfaced asphalt pavements
• Road maintenance and operation
  Seungkirl Baek, DongHeeHan and MinSooKim, Korea
  A Study on lane change impacts of van on expressway bus lane in Korea
  Kazunori Yamaguchi and Akira Moriyama, Japan
  Asset Management of Honshu-Shikoku Bridges
  Johan Maeck, Belgium
  A comparative study of sustainability tools to assess an asphalt road pavement’s life cycle

Winners at the 16th World Winter Service and Road Resilience Congress (2022, Calgary)

Prize Category	Prize Sponsor	Author	Paper Title
Adapting to a Changing World	United States	Akihiko Masuo and Tomiyama Hidenori(Japan)	Risk Management for a disaster with “Road-On Map”
Winter Road Service	Italy	Roberto Tokunaga, Tomonori Oohiro, Akira Saida, Takeshi Murakami and Masaya Sato (Japan)	Development of Anti-Icer Spreading Support Technology Based on Operator’s Mental Workload Evaluation
Resilience	Italy	Felipe Collazos-Arias, Laura Parra-Ruiz and Mónica Alonso (Spain)	Increased Resilience of Earthworks on State Roads in Northern Spain –Lessons Learned between 2011 and 2018
Young Professionals	Hungary	Rémi Reiff, Arnaud Escal, Stephanie Gaudé, Didier Giloppe, Ludovic Burghgraeve and Damien Vaillant (France)	Development of a Doctrine on the Use of Abrasives in France
LMICS	Japan	Iracema Mascarenhas and Manuel Tangune (Mozambique)	Climate Resilience in the Road Sector in Mozambique

Honorable mentions

In some categories, there were many quality papers and the jury decided to award prizes to honor the authors' contributions.

• Adapting to a Changing World
  Mónica Laura Alonso, Laura Parra Fernando Jiménez and Laura Crespo, Spain
  Towards a More Resilient Spanish Road Network
• Winter Road Service
  Atsushi Ichikawa, Katsuyoshi Abe, Kazue Usui, Toshiaki Itou and Keigo Kurihara, Japan
  Development of Autonomous Snow Blowers Using the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System on Expressways in Japan
  Carol Valentine and Martha Topp, United Kingdom
  Artificial intelligence Surface Temperature Prediction Model
• Resilience
  Denis Davi, France
  The SISMET Method: a Preliminary Assessment Tool to Determine Seismic Risk on Urban and Peri-Urban Road
  Infrastructures in a Crisis Management Context
• Young Professionals
  Kazuhito Ohashi, Yasuhiro Nagata, Yasuhiro Kaneda, Toru Hagiwara, Sho Takahashi and Yuki Nakamura, Japan
  Development of Road Visibility Inspection System Using Driving Video Images Recorded by On-board Video Camera

Winners at the 15th Winter Congress (2018, Gdańsk)

Author	Paper Title
Andres Olloqui	Avalanche risk management on the road
Kazuhide Kiyasu	Effect of Countermeasures against Heavy Snowfall Disaster on Road Traffic
Ivana Durickovic	Defrouphrou: Investigation of the Road Salt Phytoremediation Possibilities
Amanda Siems-Anderson	Use of the Pikalert® System in the Wyoming Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment
Jaakko Klang	Safety Effects of Lower Speed Limits During Winter Months
Juha Äijö	Winter Maintenance Manual for the Finnish Transportation Agency
Henri Giudici	A Technical Description of LARS and Lumi: Two Apparatus for Studying Tire-pavement Interactions (Young professionals category)
Anna Niska	Sweep–Salting -A Method for Winter Maintenance of Bicycle Paths