A letter from

J. Richard Capka Administrator Federal Highway Administration	Sandra K. Bushue Deputy Administrator Federal Transit Administration

Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)/Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Transportation Planning Excellence Awards. We are pleased that the American Planning Association cosponsored this biennial awards program. These partnerships demonstrate the importance of working together to recognize outstanding initiatives across the country to develop, plan and implement innovative transportation planning practices.

We applaud all of the wonderful projects that were nominated for these awards. The independent panel of judges had an awesome task of reviewing nominations and selecting the best of over 100 submittals within 12 categories.

Awards were granted to projects, processes, or groups that have made outstanding contributions to the field of transportation planning, based on the following criteria: Innovation; Community and Public Involvement; Partnership and Collaboration; Multimodalism; Equity; Sustainability; Demonstrated Results/Effectiveness/Replication; and category specific considerations.

Award recipients were honored on July 9 at a ceremony held during the 2006 Transportation Research Board Joint Summer Meeting in La Jolla, California.

Once again, we would like to congratulate all of the winners in the 2006 FHWA/FTA Transportation Planning Excellence Awards. We appreciate your efforts to go the extra mile to ensure that your transportation plans, processes and products demonstrate excellence and reflect the needs of the communities that we serve. Thanks to you, we now have more examples of exemplary planning to share with communities across the country.

J. Richard Capka Federal Highway Administration	Sandra K. Bushue Federal Transit Administration

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