During the Closing Ceremony of the 16th EASTS Conference, Surakarta on 3 September 2025.
Professor Yu-Chiun Chiou, Chair of the ISC Awards Subcommittee, announced the following recipients.
Special Awards
- Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute (JTTRI) Special Award
Integration of Ride-hailing Services with Public Transportation Systems from Public Welfare and Efficiency Perspectives — Ta-Yin Hu, Cheng-Fen Hsueh (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) - The Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan (OCDI) Special Award
Anxiety Amid the Rise of Automation in the Logistics Industry: A Preliminary Study in Singapore — Cheng-Hsien Hsieh, Wan Chin Crystal Poh, Yen-Heng Chen, Chi-Chang Lin, Yu-Kai Huang (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore; Valentino Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore; Infocomm Co., Ltd, Kinmen, Taiwan; National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan) - Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) Special Award
The Role of Electric Motorcycles in Transforming Travel Behavior and Mode Choice Preferences — Harits Rachmat Hidayat, Ilma Aurarisa, Muhammad Zudhy Irawan, Hironori Kato, Saksith Chalermpong, Phathinan Thaithatkul (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia; The University of Tokyo, Japan; Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
EASTS Best Paper Awards
The EASTS Best Paper Awards were presented across eight categories:
a) Enlightening Asia-Specific Topics
Integrating Transactional and Perceptual Data for Travel Behavior Analysis in Ride-Hailing Services (Case Study: Bandung, Indonesia) — Azwan Nazamuddin, Maya Safira, Makoto Chikaraishi (Hiroshima University, Japan; Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
b) Discovering Interesting Facts
Deployment of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Quarantine Planning Model Considering the Impact of Disinfection Points on the Actual Network — Shunsuke Ono, Hiroshi Shimamoto (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
c) Technological Innovation
Analysis of the Effects of Urban Area Expansion due to Railway Development in Asian Megacities Using Optical Satellite Data — Hiroki Mori, Ivan Goryunov, Takumi Narusawa, Makoto Ito, Hajime Inamura, Shigeru Morichi (Creative Research and Planning Co., Ltd., Japan; Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute, Japan; Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan; National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
d) Institutional Innovation
Measuring Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Urban Freight Initiatives in Emerging Countries Using a Fuzzy AHP Framework: Insights from Hanoi, Vietnam — Thi Hong Mai Nguyen, Sy Sua Tu, Hoang Mai Nguyen, Thi Nhu Nguyen (University of Transport and Communications, Vietnam)
e) Theoretical Development
Bottleneck Capacity Optimization Model Considering Network-Level Dynamic Evacuation Traffic — Kenshiro Oshima, Ryuichi Tani, Kenetsu Uchida (Hokkaido University, Japan)
f) Methodological Development
Assessing the Impact of Market Relocations on Mobile Vendors Considering Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Behaviours — Triana Sharly Permaisuri Arifin, Chandra Balijepalli, Anthony Whiting (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
g) Best Application in Practice
Study on Installation of Speed Humps as Traffic Safety Measures on Residential Roads in Bangkok — Hiroto Sakai, Atsushi Fukuda (Nihon University, Japan)
h) Difficult Research Accumulations
Effect of Improvement in Bus Quality on Mode Choice Behavior in Dili, Timor-Leste — Feliciano Ximenes, Hitomi Sato, Meilan Jiang, Takayuki Morikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Congratulations again to all awardees,
Saksith Chalermpong, Ph.D.
Director, Transportation Institute
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Chulalongkorn University
Chairperson, International Scientific Committee
Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)