PIARC Prizes: Who are the eight 2023 winners?

At the 27th World Road Congress in Prague, eight authors received awards for their papers.

At the World Road Congress held in Prague from 2 to 6 October 2023, PIARC awarded prizes for the most outstanding papers in eight different categories.

The aim of the PIARC Prizes is to encourage innovation, recognise professional competence, highlight topics of particular interest, promote the interests of developing countries and encourage long-term thinking about the future of transport systems.

As part of the 27th World Road Congress, a major call for papers was launched on 49 themes that complemented the themes of the Technical Committees. More than 700 authors responded to this call and presented their work during the Congress. Eight authors were awarded a PIARC prize for the best papers in each of the following categories:

Young Professionals (under 35), sponsored by Canada-Québec
Authors from LMICs (low- and middle-income countries), sponsored by Japan
Road Design, Construction, Maintenance and Operation, sponsored by Germany
Road Safety, sponsored by the United States
Climate Change and Resilience, sponsored by Australia and New Zealand
Sustainable Mobility, sponsored by Spain
Best Innovation, sponsored by Belgium
Organisation and Administration, sponsored by South Korea

The international jury was made up of the General Secretariat, the Communications Commission, the PIARC Strategic Plan Commission and a representative from each country sponsoring an award: Juan Pedro Fernández (Spain), Etienne Willam (Belgium), Whe Kyoung Kim (South Korea), Geoff Allan, Jim Betts and Nicole Rosie (Australia and New Zealand), Yasuhiro Ishihara (Japan), Michael Puschel (Germany), Frédéric Pellerin (Canada-Quebec) and Gloria Shepherd (United States).

The winners

The winners were presented with their prizes by the Chair of PIARC's Communications Commission, Claudine Tremblay, and by the Awards' partners, in front of thousands of delegates at the Prague Congress Centre.