The award has two purposes:  to encourage reporting of activities and programs that have been effective in addressing urban transportation needs through the development of innovative, practical and balanced intermodal solutions; and to publicize the role of transportation professionals in achieving innovative solutions to urban transportation needs.  The Award has been endowed by Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan Inc. in memory of Daniel W. Hoyt, a Fellow member of ITE, who was transportation planning manager for Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan Inc. in Miami, Florida at the time of his untimely death in April 1991 at the age of 51.  Dan was one of the stalwarts of our profession, consistently giving back to the profession his time, energy and initiative. A consummate professional, he always strove energetically for a better solution and a better way.

Award criteria

Past Recipients

• John T. Gard, 2007
• Robert B. Case, 2006
• William Kloos, 2005
• Kerry M. Cartwright, Larry L. Cottrill, Gary J. Hamrick, Michale C. Leue and Larry W. Nye, 2002
• James J. Dale, Timothy A. Bevan, R. Todd Slind and Kirk McKinley, 2001
• Ron Van Houten, Joy Van Houten, Richard A. Retting, Charles M. Farmer and J.E. Louis Melenfant, 2000
• John A. Hubbell, David B. Colquhoun, and M. Kawczynski, 1999
• J. Sam Lott, R. J. Thorstad, 1995
• William L. Schwartz, Sarah J. Hamilton and David A. Bohn, 1994
• Eva Lerner-Lam, John D. Wilkins and Lawrence Yermack, 1993
• Jon M. Elson and Charles A. Felix, 1992