Exciting News: Neil Mansfield Award Winner Announced

European Transport Conference 17-19 September 2025 University of Antwerp, Belgium

Neil Mansfield Award presented to PhD candidate from Politecnico di Milano

AET is pleased to announce that Eng. Marco Baldini, PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano, has received the Neil Mansfield Award for his paper presented at the 2025 European Transport Conference (ETC) in Antwerp.

The award, presented by AET’s Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum (YRPF), honours the best paper by a sole author aged 35 or under. It commemorates Neil Mansfield, a talented young UK researcher whose work and enthusiasm continue to inspire innovation in transport.

Marco’s winning paper, “Bikeability Assessment through Hybrid Choice Models: Revealed Preferences from Lombardy Region”, explores the factors that influence bikeability—the perceived quality of a cycling trip. By applying advanced discrete choice modelling, his research highlights how both physical and perceptual aspects of the built environment affect cycling experiences. The findings offer valuable guidance for the design of inclusive and sustainable cycling infrastructure.

AET congratulates Marco on this achievement and for his contribution to advancing understanding in user-centred and sustainable mobility planning.

Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum

The European Transport Conference is a place for transport practitioners of all levels and length of experience to come together; it plays an important role in inviting the talent of the future into the dialogue of today.

An integral element of the Conference is the Young Researchers and Practitioners Forum. We welcome young participants and offer additional assistance where required to help you present your paper.

ETC is an ideal platform for you to make those first steps in the dissemination of projects and papers to a wide audience. We support the full participation of younger professionals in the conference’s mainstream seminars and wider events programme.

If you would like to present your paper at next year’s European Transport Conference, keep an eye on your inbox for notifications of our Call for Papers.

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