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International
Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) ERIC
PAS (1948-1997): HIS
LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS Eric
Pas was born in Eric's
primary teaching and research interests were in the areas of activity-travel
pattern analysis, time-use research, and travel demand modeling and
forecasting. He was the author or co-author of more than 60 papers in the
area of travel demand analysis and urban transportation planning. He served
as an advisor to Federal, State, and Metropolitan Planning Organizations. He
chaired the Transportation Research Board's Task Force on Transportation
Modeling Research Needs and the Board’s Committee on Passenger Travel Demand
Forecasting during the 1990s. Eric also served for several years on the
editorial boards of Transportation, Transportation Research A,
and the Journal of Advanced Transportation, and he was a member of the
Board of Directors of the International Association for Travel Behavior
Research. Eric
was among those who laid the foundations for, and contributed substantially
toward, advanced research topics in the activity-based modeling approach to
travel demand analysis. He strived to integrate developments in the social
sciences, such as those in time use research, sociology, psychology and micro-economic
theory, with transportation behavior analysis. He took it upon himself to
assess and reflect, on a periodic basis, the developments in the field of
travel behavior and time-use analysis. In doing so, he focused on how recent
developments fit within the larger framework of human activity behavior and,
sometimes, questioned in a constructive manner some of the directions of the
current research. His periodic reflections became synonymous with wafts of
refreshing intellectual breeze, providing new directions for research and
spurring more creative work in the field. Eric
was also a truly gifted educator. Students at In addition to his own direct contributions to the travel behavior field, Eric contributed to the field by shaping, influencing and encouraging the work of several other colleagues and students. The IATBR Board decided to constitute the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize as a way to keep his memory alive and recognize the best dissertation each year in the field of travel behaviour research. ERIC
PAS DISSERTATION PRIZE AWARD
SELECTION COMMITTEES 2009: Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian (Chair),
2008: Shlomo Bekhor (Chair), Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, ...
2007: Harry Timmermans (Chair), Shlomo Bekhor, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Ram Pendyala, ...
2006: Sean Doherty (Chair), Harry Timmermans, Shlomo Bekhor, Ram Pendyala, Hani Mahmassani, John Polak, Michel Bierlaire, Satoshi Fujii, Kai Nagel, Charles Raux, Geert Wets
2005: Gerd Sammer (Chair) 2004: Anthony Richardson
(Chair) 2003: Eric Miller (Chair), Anthony
Richardson, Geoff
Rose, 2002: 2001: 2000: 1999: 1998:
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