IPATH is pleased to announce the 2025 high scoring abstract award winners!

All high scoring abstract award recipients will receive bragging rights, $200 USD cash, recognition certificate, an invitation to submit a full manuscript for consideration and publication to the Journal of Transport & Health.
An Awards Luncheon will be held on Friday, 20 June 2025, to honor our conference delegates and abstract winners.

Researcher

Dylan Peppernell
A Qualitative Study of Barriers to Active Transport Across the Lifespan
Monash University
Australia

​This abstract award is proudly sponsored by CBB Transportation Engineers + Planners.

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Ipek N. Sener
Advancing Equity and Accessibility in Micromobility: Insights from Stakeholder Interviews and Focus Groups on E-Bike Adoption
Texas A&M Transportation Insitute
United States

​This abstract award is proudly sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Engineers

Early Career/Post Doctoral

Jacob Alhassan
Rural Transportation and Vulnerability: 
​A Qualitative Analysis of Health Equity Impacts of Cuts to Intercity Public Transportation in Canada
University of Saskatchewan
Canada

​This abstract award is proudly sponsored by Marshall University - Appalachian Transportation Institute

Doctoral Student

Omer Dillian
"If I have to use the bus, I'm telling you, I'll take an anxiety pill"
Public Transport Use Cessation as an Element of Older Adults' Age-Related Mobility Decline
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Israel

​This abstract award is proudly sponsored by Sam Schwartz Pedestrian Traffic Management Services.

Undergraduate/Masters Student

Lexi Kinman
Who Supports Cycling? Exploring the Role of Moral Foundations, Political Orientation, and Sociodemographics
McGill University
Canada

​This abstract award is proudly sponsored by STV Inc.