Τhe TRB (Transportation Research Board) Paper of Spiliopoulou, A., Papageorgiou, M., Herrera, J.C., Muñoz, J.C. “Real-time merging traffic control at congested freeway off-ramp areas” was selected as the Best Freeway Operations Paper in 2016. The paper was presented at the TRB's 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., in January 2016 and the award was received during the 96th Annual Meeting of the TRB, Washington, D.C., on January 10, 2017.
Best Freeway Operations Paper is a prestigious award that is given annually to the highest rated freeway operations related paper published by TRB. The paper was selected as the top paper by the TBR Freeway Operations Committee from over 50 papers that were received from all around the world.