Dr. Mohammad Miralinaghi, a post-doctoral researcher in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and researcher at the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) has been recognized with the 2020 Matthew G. Karlaftis Best Paper Award.

The award is given annually for the best paper published in ASCE’s Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Dr. Mohammad Miralinaghi and his co-author Professor Srinivas Peeta of GeorgiaTech, were honored for their paper titled “Design of a Multiperiod Tradable Credit Scheme under Vehicular Emissions Caps and Traveler Heterogeneity in Future Credit Price Perception.” The award committee cited the paper for its novel pricing-based market-driven mechanism to manage vehicular emissions in an effort to achieve sustainability for urban transportation infrastructure.

Professor Matthew G. Karlaftis, after whom the award is named, passed away unexpectedly in June 2014. He was an expert in urban transportation, transportation planning and operations, and emergency response. Also, he was a coauthor of an international best-selling book on transportation econometrics and statistics, and editor-in-chief of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies