Yong Hoon Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in TIS advised by Professor Srinivas Peeta, received the 2014 Intelligent Transportation Systems Best Presentation Award from the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science).

The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation, and is for the paper titled "Modeling the Spatiotemporal Propagation of Information in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications," by Yong Hoon Kim, Xiaozheng He and Srinivas Peeta. The ITS Best Presentation Award Session was held at the 2014 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Kim will receive an award check and certificate for this award.

Out of the four papers selected for the ITS Best Presentation Award Session based on technical merit by the judging panel, two were from Purdue Civil Engineering. The other presentation was by Dr. Amit Kumar, now a research faculty member at Georgia Tech and also formerly advised by Professor Peeta. The paper is titled "Entropy Weighted Average Method for the Determination of a Single Representative Path Flow Solution for the Static Deterministic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment Problem," by Amit Kumar and Srinivas Peeta.