The Federal Highway Administration's
&
Federal Transit Administration's
Transportation Planning Excellence Awards

Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association

2008 Planning Awards

Note: The nomination period ended February 29, 2008.

What is the Transportation Planning Excellence Awards Program?

The Transportation Planning Excellence Awards Program is a biennial awards program developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to recognize outstanding initiatives across the country to develop, plan and implement innovative transportation planning practices. The program is co-sponsored by the American Planning Association.

What are the Transportation Planning Excellence Awards categories?

What are the criteria?

Who is eligible to enter?

Anyone may submit a nomination. However, eligible nominations must be for a project, process, group, or individual involved in a project or process that has used Federal Highway Administration and/or Federal Transit Administration funding sources to make an outstanding contribution to the field of transportation planning.

Winning entries will be selected by an independent panel of judges representing diverse backgrounds and expertise.

How are award decisions made?

An expert panel reviews all applications against the award criteria identified above. The judge panel recommends recognition for nominations that excel in a variety of criteria. Awards are not necessarily made in each category, at the discretion of the judging panel. A project or organization may be nominated separately for more than one planning category; however, each nomination should speak specifically to the project's appropriateness for that category. In addition to satisfying the criteria, successful nominations must be superior in the specific categories in which they were nominated.

When are the entries due?

All Transportation Planning Excellence Award nominations are due by the deadline established by the sponsoring agencies. The deadline for the 2008 Transportation Planning Excellence Award nominations is February 29, 2008.

When are the awards presented?

Awards are presented in the summer of 2008

Past Transportation Planning Excellence Awards

For further information, call the FHWA Office of Planning at (202) 366-0106 or the FTA Office of Planning & Environment at (202) 366-5653 or visit the FHWA Planning website.

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The Federal Highway Administration's & Federal Transit Administration's Transportation Planning Excellence Awards