Abstracts for the 1997 Transportation Science Section Dissertation Prize Competition.

The article presents abstracts for the 1997 Transportation Science Section (TSS) Dissertation Prize Competition. The TSS Dissertation Prize Competition is the oldest and most prestigious competition for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science area. Eligible doctoral dissertations were those completed and submitted between June 1, 1996 and May 31, 1997 in the area of transportation science. To be considered, a dissertation had to be nominated by the thesis supervisor. The paper Dynamic Network Flow With Uncertain Arc Capacities, holds that a directed graph is dynamic if each node has a time value and each arc is directed forward in time. A dynamic network flow model is a kind of network flow model where the associated network graph is dynamic. In many real-world problems, current decisions are based on an uncertain future. The author extend the dynamic network flow model to use a set of arc capacity scenarios, which represent a discrete random capacity distribution.