Outstanding Transportation Planning

This award honors efforts to increase transportation choices for all populations, reducing dependence on private automobiles and helping to ease congestion and reducing climate change impacts.

Examples: Transportation studies; plans for pedestrian, streets, highways, aviation, parking, maritime, freight, transit or rail; development and expansion of transportation systems; development and expansion of trail systems, etc.

Eligibility:

Open to APA members and nonmembers. Any organization, private firm, or others involved in transportation planning projects may submit a nomination. Nominated plan should have been completed in the last three (3) years before the nomination deadline.

Criteria:

Planning and innovation — Describe the critical transportation elements that are addressed by your entry in terms of lessening or mitigating adverse impacts from development and everyday living. Illustrate how the role of planning or planners were involved in the development process of your entry.

Compatibility — Demonstrate how your entry integrates transportation planning into community planning. Describe how your entry connects to both environment and the economy.

Engagement — Describe the public education and participation process. Describe how support was generated for your entry.

Effectiveness and results — State how your entry addressed the need or problem that prompted its initiation. Be explicit about how the results have made a difference in the lives of people affected and benefits the overall community.