The Transportation Achievement Awards may be awarded annually for excellence in the advancement of transportation to meet human needs, by entities concerned with transportation such as governmental agencies, legislative bodies, consulting firms, industry, and other organizations.
Awards will be presented in the categories of: Complete Streets, Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO), Safety, Planning, and Traffic Engineering.
These awards recognize an organization for one or more of the following:
- Development of an innovative concept in Complete Streets, TSMO, safety, planning, or traffic engineering
- Implementation of a challenging transportation program through perseverance in its development and promotion
- Program or project having a significant effect on transportation
- Multi-faceted transportation program or project, combining many innovative and/or well-applied concepts
- Program or project promoting a major advancement in the efficiency and/or economy of transportation
The District winners from each category will be forwarded to ITE International for the International level Transportation Achievement Awards.
2024 Transportation Achievement Awards
- Planning Category: Madison, WI – Vision Zero Madison
- Safety Category: Anoka, MN – Highway 10/169 Improvements
- Traffic Engineering Category: Lloyd Expressway (SR 62) Corridor Traffic Analysis
Past Recipients:
- 2023 –
- 2022 – The Multimodal Corridor Enhancement (MCORE) Project. MCORE was a unified effort of the City of Champaign, City of Urbana, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (CUMTD), and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- 2021 – Main Avenue, Fargo, ND (Complete Streets); Fulton Market District, Chicago, IL (Planning); Bayfront Traffic Study, Duluth, MN (TSMO); St. Paul Speed Limits, St. Paul, MN (Safety); CSAH 21 Reconstruction, Prior Lake, MN (Traffic Engineering)
- 2020 – Not Awarded
- 2019 – City of Springfield, MO (Safety); Wisconsin DOT/Forward 45 (Design)