Conference Awards

The 2023 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. 

One award from this category will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project.

This award is intended for an individual, team, or project that promotes or encompasses the health of individuals and communities, such as active transportation improvements, improving environmental conditions (i.e. air quality and water quality), 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%
 

Click here to nominate an individual, team, or project for the Good Health Through Transportation Award

One award from this category will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project.

This award is intended for an individual, team, or project 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%
 

One award from this category will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project.

This award is intended for an individual, team, or project 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 related to transportation – 90%
  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%

 

Click here to nominate an individual, team, or project for the Strengthening the Economy Through Transportation Award

One award from this category will be presented to an individual or team, and one award will be presented to a project.

This award is intended for an individual, team, or project that promotes or encompasses 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 related to transportation – 90%
  • Quality of the write-up of the award submission – 10%

 

Click here to nominate an individual, team, or project for the Connecting Communities Through Transportation Award 

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%
 

Click here to nominate an individual or team for the Utah Transportation Safety Award