Highway Research Board Award (No longer active)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