The Transportation Achievement Awards recognize significant and outstanding transportation achievements by other entities concerned with transportation, such as government agencies, legislative bodies, consulting firms, industry, and other private-sector organizations.
PLANNING
2016 City of San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
2017 Nashville Are MPO 2040 Regional Transportation Plan
2018 City of Madison Smart City Initiative
2019 Southview Boulevard Improvement Project
2020 Transoft Solutions, Inc. AutoTURN Pro
2021 Hillsborough Metropolitan Organization for Speed Management Action Plan
2022 District DOT for moveDC: A Unique Approach To Long-Range Transportation Planning
2023 SMART SCALE: Funding the Right Transportation Projects in Virginia
DESIGN
2016 City of Brownsville, CA, USA and Matamoros, Mexico
2017 State Route 520 Floating Bridge and Landings Project
2018 Highway Integrated Sensing and Energy Conversion Module (HI-SEM)
2019 Zoo Interchange Core and Adjacent Arterials
FACILITIES
1985 Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation, Rail Service to the Virginia Eastern Shore
1986 Santa Ana (California) Regional Transportation Center
1988 Arizona Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Phoenix Freeway Plan
1989 Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, and Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation
1991 Downtown Seattle Transit Project
1993 Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works (Intermodal Transportation System)
1995 Denver International Airport
1996 91 Express Lanes Project
1997 Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, TX
1998 Confederation Bridge, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
1999 Cypress Replacement Project
2002 Alabama Department of Transportation
2003 Oklahoma Department of Transportation
2004 Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT)
2005 Florida Department of Transportation (FLDOT)
2006 Orange County, CA, Transportation Authority/Riverside County, CA Transportation Commission, Riverside/Orange County Major Investment Study
2007 Illinois Tollway, South Tri?State Tollway Reconstruction Project
2009 Texas Department of Transportation Houston District
2010 Waterfront Toronto’s Lower Don Lands Project
2011 Transportation Management Center of the Ozarks
2012 City of Carmel and American Structure Point
2013 City of Indianapolis Department of Public Works and American Structurepoint, Inc.
2014 Pinellas County Public Works Operations Building Project
2015 Macomb County, Mt. Clemens, Michigan
OPERATIONS
1984 Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
1986 Glenwood Canyon (Colorado) I?70 Traffic Control Program
1987 Illinois DOT Freeway Traffic Management Program
1988 Metropolitan Transit Development Board, Light Rail System
1989 City of Arlington, Texas, Department of Transportation
1990 California Department of Transportation, District 4, Transit Operators' Coordinating Council, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Bay area for heroic, effective, imaginative and prompt response to the disruption caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake
1991 Transportation Operations Coordinating Committee, TRANSCOM
1992 TravTek (American Automobile Association, City of Orlando, Federal Highway Administration, Florida Department of Transportation, General Motors Corporation)
1993 Colorado Department of Transportation, The New I?25 Traffic Control Support Program
1994 Los Angeles Area Transportation Agencies Partnership
1995 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1997 Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, GA for ITS MARTA '96, the '96 Centennial Olympic games, and the North Line Extension
1998 Montgomery County, MD for Advance Transportation Management System
1999 AZTech ITS Model
2001 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
2002 Utah Department of Transportation, Salt Lake City Transportation Division, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake Organizing Committee Transportation Department
2003 ATMS/NTCIP Integration Project Phoenix, AZ
2004 The City of Philadelphia, PA
2005 National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC)
2006 Minnesota Department of Transportation, I?394 MnPASS HOT Lane Conversion
2007 Transportation Expansion Project (T?REX), Transportation Expansion Project
2009 Mississippi Department of Transportation, Reconnecting Mississippi's Coastal Communities Through ITS
2010 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) at JFK Airport
2011 Campus Traffic & Parking Project completed by Traffic Analysis & Design, Inc. for the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital
2012 City of Centennial and CH2M Hill
2013 VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority
2014 State Road and Tollway Authority GA 400 Toll Road Closure Project, Atlanta, GA
2015 Transurban, Alexandria, Virginia
2016 City of Bellevue, Washington
2017 511PAConnect
2018 LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment Landside Transportation Management Command Center
2019 Lake County ATSPM Program
2020 VDOT NRO Signal Operations Achieving Safety and Mobility with Traffic Signal Management
2021 Florida Turnpike Enterprise for SunTrax Facility
2022 STC Traffic for San Diego Port Tenants Association – Freight Signal Priority Project
PEDESTRIANS
2006 Transit Cooperative Research Program and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (TCRP/NCHRP)
2007 World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and The Louis Berger Group Inc., World Trade Center Memorial Pedestrian Simulations Modeling Program
SAFETY
2005 South Carolina Department of Transportation and the South Carolina Division Office of the Federal Highway Administration
2005 U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
2006 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Accident Analysis and Mitigation System
2007 Texas Transportation Institute, Teens in the Driver Seat
2009 California Highway Patrol
2010 Mississippi Department of Transportation
2010 Mississippi Department of Transportation for Innovative Interagency Partnership – The Mississippi MS Traffic MED?com Project
2011 Texas Transportation Institute for Teens in the Driver Seat Program
2012 Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation and New Jersey Department of Transportation
2014 Florida Department of Transportation District Two—In Partnership with RS&H, HNTB, and Superior Construction SE, LLC for the Mathews Bridge Emergency Repairs Project
2016 Virginia Department of Transportation
2017 Video Analytics Towards Vision Zero Partnership
2018 Julie’s Automated Waste?Removal System (JAWS): Kansas City Scout
2020 VDOT NRO Signal Operations Achieving Safety and Mobility with Traffic Signal Management
2021 City of Fremont, CA, for Fremont Vision Zero Program
2022 Toole Design for Safe Streets Priority Finder Tool
2023 STRIDES 2 ZERO (FDOT)
SIGNAL SYSTEMS
2006 County of Santa Clara, CA, Traffic Management/Traffic Signal-Retiming and Synchronization on Santa Clara Expressways
2007 Pinellas County, FL, USA, Public Works, Traffic Management Division, Countywide ATMS Adaptive Signal System
ALL USERS
2006 City of Chicago IL, Illinois Department of Transportation, South Lake Shore Drive Reconstruction
2007 Massachusetts Highway Department, MassHighway Project Development and Design Guide
BICYCLE
2006 City of Irvine, CA, I?405/Jeffrey Trail, and Overcrossing
2007 Houston/Galveston Area Council, Pedestrian and Bicyclist Districts Conceptual Plan, and Project
COMPLETE STREETS
2020 Miriam Jim and Ali Shahzad, City of Escondido, Escondido Creek Bikeway Missing Link Project
2021 The City of Nanaimo and ISL Engineering & Land Services for “Raised Local Intersections: The City of Nanaimo’s New Engineering Standard”
2022 City of Calgary, Alberta Canada, and Urban Systems for Montgomery Main Streets – Where a Street Becomes a Community
2023 Kansas Avenue Streetscape
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
2020 City of Santa Clarita GiveMeGreen Program
2021 City of Prior Lake for CSAH 21 Downtown Prior Lake Improvement Project
2022 N. Vine Street Corridor Improvements from E 32nd St to 41st St in Hays, KS
2023 DC Citywide Signal Timing Optimization
2023 Division Transit Project: Signal and TSP Operations