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Highway Research Board Award (No longer active)

The Highway Research Board Award was established in 1940 to honor the authors of the most outstanding papers presented at the Board's Annual Meeting. This award was discontinued with the establishment of the Pyke Johnson, K. B. Woods, and D. Grant Mickle awards. The names of the award recipients and the titles of their papers follow.

1970
PETER SMITH and ROBERT SCHONFELD, Pavement Wear Due to Studded Tires and the Economic Consequences in Ontario

1970
C. H. OGLESBY, A. BRUCE BISHOP, and GENE E. WILLEKE, A Method for Decisions Among Freeway Location Alternatives Based on User and Community Consequences

1969
ALEKSANDAR S. VESIC and SURENDRA K. SAXENA, Analysis of Structural Behavior of Road Test Rigid Pavements

1969
JACK E. LEISCH, Transportation Systems in Future Development of Metropolitan Areas

1968
C. H. OGLESBY and MATTHEY J. ALTENHOFEN, Proposal to Modify Present-Day Standards for the Width of Low-Volume Rural Roads

1968
G. R. CUDNEY, The Effects of Loadings on Bridge Life

1967
J. A. WATTLEWORTH and FRANK GERIG, Jr., Operational Effects of Some Entrance Ramp Geometrics on Freeway Merging

1967
MALCOLM D. GRAHAM, WILLIAM C. BURNETT, JOHN L. GIBSON, and ROBERT H. FREER, Highway Barriers—The Practical Application of Theoretical Design

1966
DONALD R. DREW, CONRAD L. DUDEK, and CHARLES J. KEESE, Freeway Level of Service as Described by an Energy-Acceleration Noise Model

1965
MARVIN D. OOSTERBAAN and G. A. LEONARDS, Use of an Insulating Layer to Attenuate Frost Action in Highway Pavement

1964
DAVID W. HADLEY, Alkali Reactivity of the Dolomitic Carbonate Rocks

1963
W. RONALD HUDSON, Comparison of Concrete Pavement Load-Stresses at AASHO Road Test with Previous Work

1962
LEONARD CASCIATO and SAM CASS, A Pilot Study of the Automatic Control of Traffic Signals by a General Purpose Electronic Computer

1961
A. S. LANG and DAVID H. ROBBINS, A New Technique for Prediction of Vehicle Operating Costs in Connection with Highway Design

1961
GEORGE HAIKALIS and HYMAN JOSEPH, Economic Evaluation of Traffic Networks

1960
KENNETH A. STONEX, Roadside Design for Safety

1959
CHARLES J. KEESE, CHARLES PINNELL, and WILLIAM R. McCASLAND, A Study of Freeway Traffic Operation

1958
ALAN M. VOORHEES, Peak Hours of Travel

1957

GEORGE M. WEBB and KARL MOSKOWITZ, California Freeway Capacity Study's 1956

1956
CHESTER McDOWELL, Interrelationship of Load, Volume Changes, and Layer Thickness of Soils to the Behavior of Engineering Structures

1955
CARL C. SAAL, Operating Characteristics of a Passenger Car on Selected Routes

1954
C. A. ROTHROCK, Urban Congestion Index Principles

1953
EARL C. SUTHERLAND and HARRY D. CASHELL, Structural Effects of Heavy-Duty Trailer on Concrete Pavements

1952
HUGO C. DUZAN, WILLIAM R. McCALLUM, and THOMAS R. TODD, Recent Trends in Highway Bond Financing

1951
THOMAS J. CARMICHAEL and CHARLES E. HALEY, A Study of Vehicle, Roadway, and Traffic Relationships by Means of Statistical Instruments

1950
ROY E. JORGENSEN and ROBERT G. MITCHELL, Accident Analysis for Program Planning

1949
F. N. HVEEM and R. M. CARMANY, The Factors Underlying the Rational Design of Pavements

1948
C. R. HANES, Some Practices Used by Ohio in the Salvaging of Old Pavements

1947
NORMAN W. McLEOD, Airport Runway Evaluation in Canada

1946
K. B. WOODS, HAROLD S. SWEET, and T. E. SHELBURNE, Pavement Blowups Correlated with Source of Coarse Aggregate

1945
DONALD LOUTZENHEISER, Proposed Design Standards for Interregional Highways

1944
DONALD J. BELCHER, The Engineering Significance of Soil Patterns

1943
RALPH A. MOYER, Motor Vehicle Operating Costs, Road Roughness, and Slipperiness of Various Bituminous and Portland Cement Concrete Surfaces

1942
K. B. RUSSELL and M. G. SPANGLER, The Energy Concept of Soil Moisture and Mechanics of Unsaturated Flow

1941
F. W. REAGEL, Freezing and Thawing Tests of Concrete

1940
WILFRED OWEN, Trends in Highway Financial Practice



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