The SimSub was very pleased to present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Courage for his great contribution to the traffic analysis, modeling and simulation tools. The award is granted to a person who has made a significant and continued contribution to the field of transportation simulation over a period of 20 years or more 

The SimSub was very pleased to present its best Simulation Application Paper Award awarded to the best TRB paper on traffic simulation model use and/or application. 20-04245: Applying Bayesian Optimization for Calibration of Transportation Simulation Models 

The SimSub was very pleased to present its best Simulation Development Paper Award - awarded to the best TRB paper on traffic simulation algorithm and/or model development. 20-02155: Enhanced MFC: Introducing Dynamics of Electrified Vehicles for Free Flow Microsimulation Modeling  

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Jaume Barcelo for his great achievement in the field of transport simulation. 

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Best Paper Award to Prakash, Seshadri, Antoniou, Pereira, and Ben-Akivafor their paper "Improving Scalability of Generic Online Calibra-tion for Real-Time Dynamic Traffic Assignment Systems".

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Lifetime Achievement Award to John Halkias (FHWA) Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Alex Skabardonis (UC Berkeley) Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Best Paper Award to Shannon Warchol, R. Thomas Chase, Christopher Cunninghamfor their paper "Diverging Diamond Interchange Signal Phasing Scheme Evaluation using Microsimulation".

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Best Paper Award to Vincenzo Punzo and Jordi Casas for their paper "From Theory to Practice: Gaussian Process Meta-Models for Sensitivity Analysis of Traffic Simulation Models: Case Study of Aimsun Mesoscopic". Equal congratulations go to Biagio Ciuffo, Josep Perarnau, and Marcello Montanino, who were not able to attend the TRB but who equally contributed to the paper. Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Annual Best Model Development Paper Award to Wilco Burghout, Haris Koutsopoulos, and Ingmar Andreasson for their paper: Incident Management and Traffic Information: Tools and Methods for Simulation-Based Traffic Prediction. Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Traffic Simulation Pioneer Award to Clyde E. Lee for his pioneering and continued efforts in Traffic Simulation starting with the TEXAS Model for Intersection Traffic in 1968. Congratulations! Read Mr. Lee's short bio here.

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Annual Best Model Development Paper Award to Daniel Jian Sun and Lily Elefteriadou for their paper: A Driver Behavior Based Lane-Changing Model and Its Implementation in CORSIM. Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Annual Best User Paper Award to Jung-Beom Lee and Kaan Ozbay of Rutgers University for their paper: A New Calibration Methodology for Microscopic Traffic Simulation Using Enhanced Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (E-SPSA) Approach. Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Traffic Simulation Pioneer Award to Panos G. Michalopoulos for his pioneering and continued efforts in Traffic Simulation starting with the KRONOS macroscopic freeway simulation model in 1982. Congratulations!

The SimSub was very pleased to present its Traffic Simulation Pioneer Award to Edward B. Lieberman for his pioneering and continued efforts in Traffic Simulation starting with DYNET in 1968, UTCS-1 in 1970, SCOT in 1972, NETSIM in 1973, and TRAFLO in 1977. Congratulations!