Michael Cassidy and his students were awarded TRB's Cunard Award, given to the "best paper" across TRB's Operations Section (for which the first author is under 35 yrs of age) for their paper titled: "Doig, J.C., Gayah, V. and Cassidy, M.J., Inhomogeneous flow patterns in under-saturated road networks and implications for the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram. Transportation Research Record."