A. TCT Best Paper Award

TRG has 9 Technical committees to promote Transportation Research and Education. CTRG2025 will award the Best Papers from each of the Technical Committees. Should no paper be found suitable in any of the TCTs, the award evaluation committee may recommend ‘NFS’ to TRG and CTRG.

B. Outstanding Student Paper Award

TRG will award the TRG’s Outstanding Student Paper Award (hereafter, the TOST-PA) from the year 2025. Student authors are welcome to submit a paper for the TOST-PA. The student author must be the first author and the co-authors are limited to Supervisors only. The full paper must not have been submitted for publication or published. The TOST-PA selection committee shall shortlist no more than three student papers in this award category. The student will be the presenter in this category. The best paper awardees will be invited to submit their work to TiDE subject to their willingness for publication. The submission will go through the normal peer review process as per the journal’s review procedure by the Editor-in-Chief for Transportation in Developing Economies (TiDE).

C. TRG’s Best Thesis (TBT) Award

The TRG’s Best Thesis (TBT) Award (hereafter, the TBT) is established to promote cutting-edge futuristic research and education in India. All eligible candidates are invited to submit the application to be considered for the TBT. The application along with all the documents prescribed in the Application Process needs to be sent to the email: ctrg@trgindia.org with the subject heading as TBT2023-2025.  The last date of sending completed application by email is 30 September 2025, 11:59 pm IST. The shortlisted applicants will be invited to make a presentation in CTRG-2025 on their Ph.D. work. The TRG will confer a TBT on each of the three broad categories (namely, Planning – Pavement – Traffic) of Transportation Research. Should no suitable applicant(s) qualify for the award in a particular block-year, the Award Committee reserves the right not to grant an Award. The decision of the Award Committee is final. Following are the Eligibility Criteria and the Application Process for the award.
Please download the application form using the following link: TBT Application Form

Eligibility:

1. Scholars with Indian Citizenship and who have defended their Ph.D. thesis at an Indian University/Institute.
2. Must have completed their Ph.D. defense during the period of ‘01 April 2023 to 30 August 2025’.
3. Research work (not necessarily from their PhD research) should have been published/submitted in TRG’s flagship journal Transportation in Developing Economies (TiDE)¹ while pursuing Ph.D. In case the candidate has not published (or accepted/submitted) previously in TiDE, then the following points can be considered: 

a) If the candidate has not submitted a paper in CTRG-2025, she/he can submit a paper to TiDE by the date of application and provide the submission details.

b) If the candidate has submitted a paper for CTRG-2025 and the paper has been recommended for further submission to a partnering journal (TiDE/TRR), please mention the CTRG-2025 Paper ID.

The applicant needs to attach the paper published/ accepted/ submitted (TiDE) / (CTRG-2025 journal recommended) confirmation e-mail along with the application.