Awards
APTE 2026 congratulates the recipients of this year's awards, recognizing outstanding research and distinguished contributions to the conference and the field.
🏆 Best Paper Award
Recipients are listed in no particular order.
| Author | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Qian Yan | Seoul National University | Greener streets, better minds? Examining older adults' perceptual and physiological responses on urban streets during winter in Chengdu, China |
| Dongyue Cun | Southeast University (China) | Mean-Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Modal Traffic Assignment: A Two-Stage Imitation Learning Approach |
| Meng Li | Nanyang Technological University | Network-Level Design of CACC in Mixed Traffic: A Robust Optimization Framework with Heterogeneous Human Drivers |
| Wenhan Yang | Southwest Jiaotong University | End-to-End Traffic Crash Detection from Multi-Channel Audio with LLM-Assisted Decision Support |
| Yuhao Liu | New York University | Decentralized First-come-first-served Assignment of Capacitated Resources with Partially Observable User Preference |
| SoYeon Lee | University of Seoul | Dynamic Calibration of Social Force Models via Deep Kalman Filtering for Crowd State Estimation |
| Minkyung Song | Gachon University | Comparative Analysis of Mobility Patterns of Transportation-Vulnerable Groups Using Public Transit and Paratransit Data |
| Hiroshi Uemura | The University of Tokyo | A study on the optimization of operational strategies for shared micromobility services using Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search |
| Shih-Huang Chen | National Central University | A Strategic Evaluation of Permeable Pavement Materials for Urban Sidewalks in Taiwan |
| Jeonghyun Oh | Seoul National University | Cluster-based Airport Egress Mode Design Considering Terminal Arrival Process of Flight Passengers |
🎓 Student Best Paper Award
Jocelyn Mercado · Modesto IV Porcado · Miles Jacob Lind Roque · Joshua Neo Sevillo · Paul Jacob Cruz
Adamson University
Paper: Enhancing MRT-3 Platform Safety and Efficiency Through an Integrated YOLOv8–XGBoost Pipeline for Real-Time Detection of Danger Zone Breaches and Predictive Modeling of Crowd Density Based on Temporal Trends
🖼️ Best Poster Award
Recipients are listed in no particular order.
| Presenter | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Xiaotong Xu | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Community Vibrancy in the Era of Hybrid Work: A Residential Sorting Perspective |
| Shih-Han Chen | National Taiwan University | Mitigating Multi-Lane Change Delays of Post-Dwell Buses via Pre-Signals |
| Chanyong Chung | Ajou University | Data-Efficient Updating Framework for Resilient OD Flow Estimation under Concept Drift: Evidence from Large-Scale Mobile Phone Data |
| Wisely J H Ong | National University of Singapore | Vision-based Intelligent Assessment of Transport Infrastructure and Streetscape using Probe Bicycle |
| Minyoung Choi | University of Seoul | Classifying Individual Trip Purposes to Analyze Pass Type Selection in Bike-Sharing Services |
🏅 Distinguished Service Award
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Xiaobo Qu
Tsinghua University
🌟 Outstanding Contribution Award
🌟
Tiantian Chen
KAIST
🌟
Changju Lee
KAIST
🌟
Heye Huang
KAIST