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.
2026 Transportation Achievement Awards
- Complete Streets Category: University-Fourth Roadway Improvements / Submitted by Hennepin County Alliant Engineering, Inc.
- Planning Category: Highway 10 Ramsey Gateway / Submitted by Anoka County City of Ramsey Bolton & Menk, Inc.
- Traffic Engineering Category: Milwaukee Ave – Logan Blvd. to Belmont Ave. – Phase I and II / Submitted by Chicago Department of Transportation – Highway Section Jacobs
- Safety Category: Innovating Signal Safety – Macomb County ETA Based Dilemma Zone Protection and Late-Window Gap-Out Strategy / Submitted by Macomb County Department of Roads, Traffic and Operations Division
- Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Category: I-465 TSMO Project / Submitted by Parsons Transportation Group & INDOT
Past Recipients:
- 2025
- Complete Streets Category: Revitalizing Soul City: Bringing Equitable Roadway and Streetscape Improvements to the Chicago Avenue Corridor, City of Chicago, IL
- Planning Category: TMC and I-29 SMART Corridor, North Dakota Department of Transportation
- Traffic Engineering Category: TMC and I-29 SMART Corridor, North Dakota Department of Transportation
- Safety Category: Downtown 41 Improvements, City of Chaska, MN
- Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Category: An Investment into Next-Generation Traffic Operations, Macomb County Department of Roads
- 2024
- 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
- 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)