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Institution of Civil Engineers
(South Wales Association)
Transportation Engineering Group
Registered Charity 210252
20th Annual Award Evening 2000
On 29th March 2000 the TEG will be holding its
Annual Award evening, in Cardiff.
A prize of #150 is offered to the Author and
Presenter of the best paper on a topic broadly
related to transportation.
Authors, who need not be members of the
Institution of Civil Engineers, are invited to send a
synopsis (no more than 500 words) to:
Gwyn Evans
c/o Director of Technical Services
City and County of Swansea
County Hall
Swansea
SA1 3SN.
email: [log in to unmask]
Synopses must arrive before 10th December 1999.
Full rules set out below
Institution of Civil Engineers
(South Wales Association)
Transportation Engineering Group - 2000
Transportation Award
Award rules
1 Papers may be on any transportation related subject (transportation will
be interpreted widely).
2 The authors contribution to the work must be made clear.
3 The work described should be recent, within the last five years .
4 Synopses must be typed and should be no more than 500 words (one
side of A4). The synopsis should be sufficiently detailed to enable the Award
Committee to assess the content and quality of the proposed paper.
Synopses must be received by 10th December 1999
5 Authors of the selected six best synopses will be notified in January
2000 and invited to submit the full paper (approx. 3000 words) by10th
February 2000.
6 Writers of the three selected papers will present them to the meeting of
the TEG in Cardiff on Wednesday29th March2000. The winner will be
announced on the evening. Reasonable expenses will be paid to presenters.
7 The presentation will last 20 minutes and may include slides or other
graphic displays.
8 The presentation will be taken into account in the assessment of papers,
however, content and quality will already have been marked.
9 Judges may briefly question speakers at the end of their presentation.
10 If the standard of papers is not judged to be of a sufficiently high
standard no prize will be awarded.
11 Current members of the TEG Committee are excluded.
12 Judges will be nominated by the Group.
13 The TEG reserves the right to retain any or all entries for publication in
journals of the Institution.
Topics which have been successful in previous years
include:
A new approach to evaluating public transport.
SCRAM - A Management Tool for Ranking
Highway Improvements
Traffic Calming and Village Gateways in Devon
Virtual Environment Techniques and Travel
Behaviour
Teleworking as a Practice for Travel Demand
Management
A Community Approach to Traffic Calming
Kallin Harbour - Design and Construction
The Wind is Free - A Traditional Use of the Elements
Successful authors have come from Leeds,
Southampton, The Western Isles and Devon as well
as South Wales!
Dr John Hunt
Director of Studies for Civil Engineering
Director of ENGIN IT Services
Cardiff School of Engineering
Queen's Buildings
PO Box 917
Newport Rd
Cardiff CF2 1XH
United Kingdom
Email:[log in to unmask]; Tel & Fax: +44 (0)122 287 4576
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