…encourages design achievement in transport, automotive engineering and related fields. An annual award, it identifies, supports and facilitates planned transport research, education and innovation at post-graduate level.

Founded by the Worshipful Company of Carmen in 2001, this award comprises a £500 grant and a framed citation

(Year * refers to year awarded. Awards are normally presented in July the following year.)

Year *	Recipient	Citation
2020		Award suspended pending new arrangements
2019	No award
2018	Irene Chiu	Excelled throughout her two-year Masters course at the Royal College of Art, with consistently innovative work
2017	Kalle Keituri and Samuel Philpott	City mobility, safer trucks and tube interiors
2016	Frederik Vanden Borre	Taxi, truck and PSV innovations
2015	Young Han Yoon	London Underground interior design futures
2014	Francisco Binaggia	Exceptional public & emergency transport
2013	No award
2012	Niels van Roij	Towards effective and efficient ageing mobility
2011	Ian Kettle	Sense and the City solutions
2010	Rui Guo	Urban utility, ambulance and personal vehicles
2009	Hong K Yeo	Sustainable car for London
2008	Reginald Hingston Lamrana	Sustainable, indigenous West African coastal and river vessel
2007	Florian Seidl	Autopia city taxi-copter
2006	Flavien Dachet	Pacific Islands tourist & inter-island transport
2005	James Moon	Ninetydegrees south antarctic vehicle
2004	Tom Eaton	Tricon public bicycle
2003	Gareth Thomas	Innovative London street-sign system
2002	Vehicle Design Dept., R.C.A. and Helen Evenden, Carmen Research Fellow	Organising and implementing the URBAN FLOW project, researching design solutions to congestion in cities