Conferece Awards

2024 Conference Awards Nomination

The 2024 Utah Transportation Conference awards are open for nominations!

Click each title below to learn more about the different categories.
Follow the links under each award to nominate your fellow transportation professionals.

Click here to download the award categories and descriptions PDF.

Click here for the form

Two awards will be presented in this category: one will be presented to an individual or team, and one will be presented to a project.

This award is intended to recognize an individual, team, or project that promotes or enhances the health of individuals and communities, such as active transportation improvements, planning efforts or new technology that foster an enhanced quality of life, improving environmental conditions (i.e. air quality and water quality), specific safety initiatives or other elements contributing to greater public health through transportation solutions.

An independent panel will judge entries based on the following criteria:

  • Positive impact to public health through individual or team efforts or through a project related to transportation 90%
  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%

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Two awards will be presented in this category: one award will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project or study.

This award is intended for an individual, team, project, or study that embraces the vision of Keeping Utah
Moving Through Better Mobility. Examples of award recipients could include an individual or team addressing a
large traffic event, responding to a natural disaster, implementing an innovative method or asset that improves
mobility for all users, or a project that emphasizes improving mobility for any mode of transportation.

An independent panel will judge entries based on the following criteria:

  • Positive impact to transportation mobility through individual or team efforts or through a project related to transportation – 90%

  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%

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Two awards will be presented in this category: one award will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project or study.

This award is intended for an individual, team, project or study that promotes or encompasses strengthening
Utah’s economy through transportation, such as improving access to goods and services, enacting transportation-related policy that invigorates economic activity, enhancing economic vibrancy of neighborhoods or communities, or other efforts that promote economic activity through transportation solutions.

An independent panel will judge entries based on the following criteria:

  • Positive impact to strengthening the economy through individual or team efforts or through a project or study related to transportation – 90%
  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%

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Two awards will be presented in this category: one award will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project or study.

This award is intended for an individual, team, project, or study that promotes or facilitates connecting Utah’s communities through transportation, such as improving access across neighborhoods or communities, enacting transportation-related policy that promotes connected communities, enhancing relationships and collaboration between communities through transportation, or other efforts that promote connectivity between
neighborhoods or communities through transportation solutions.

An independent panel will judge entries based on the following criteria:

  • Positive impact to connecting communities through individual or team efforts or through a project or study related to transportation – 90%
  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%

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One award from this category will be presented to an individual or team.

The Utah Transportation Safety Award is intended for an individual or team exemplifying safety within the context of transportation design, construction, maintenance, or operations.

The following are examples of reasons to nominate an individual or team for this award:

  • Increases safety awareness among colleagues and partners
  • Directly influenced the safe completion of a job/project
  • Increases employee/work crew knowledge of safety
  • Contributes to safety in the work area
  • Enhances the safety of others
  • Demonstrates safety leadership
  • Individual or team effort prevented a potential serious incident or injury
  • Safety efforts led to a safe and successful completion of a transportation project

 

An independent panel will judge entries based on the following criteria:

  • Increases safety awareness among colleagues and partners or prevented a potential serious incident or injury – 60%
  • Safety efforts led to a safe and successful completion of a transportation project – 30%
  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%