Student Paper Competition

Student Paper Competition

The Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals together with the Insurance Bureau of Canada are sponsoring a competition for a scientific paper, written by a student registered in a Canadian university, on any aspect of motor vehicle traffic safety. Please see:
http://www.carsp.ca/cmrsc_call.htm

The author of the paper judged to be the best entry to the competition will receive an award of $1,000. The second and third place winners will receive awards of $600 and $400 respectively.

Each of the three winning student authors will also receive a complimentary registration to the 19th Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference, to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on June 7-10, 2009, and $1,000 for travel and living expenses to attend, and present their paper at the conference. Winning students must present their paper at the conference in order to be eligible for any of the above awards.

For details of past competitions, and the range of topics that have been chosen by previous winners, please see: http://www.carsp.ca/index.php?0=documents&1=259

Authors must provide their papers in electronic format, (Microsoft Word preferred). Papers should not exceed 15 pages including all the text, illustrations, tables, and references. Entries are to be received no later than April 15, 2009. Entries will be judged by an expert panel of CARSP members.

Students may also submit their papers in response to the call for papers for the conference (see: http://www.carsp.ca/cmrsc_call.htm). However, please take special note that it is necessary to submit an abstract of the proposed paper by February 17, 2009 for the conference AND a full-text paper by March 31, 2009 as a competition entry, in order to participate in both activities.

For further details, please contact:

Kevin J. McClafferty
Chairman, Scientific Programme Committee
UWO Accident Research Team
Room 2162, Elborn College
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON N6A 5B9
Tel: (519) 661-2111 (ext 88297)
Fax: (519) 661-3123
E-mail: cmrsc19_papers@magma.ca