The Transportation Achievement Award recognizes significant and outstanding transportation achievements by other entities concerned with transportation, such as government agencies, legislative bodies, consulting firms, industry and other private-sector organizations.  The award consists of a plaque.  

Award criteria

For All Users

• Massachusetts Highway Department, 2006 MassHighway Project Development and Design Guide, 2007
• City of Chicago IL, Illinois Department of Transportation, South Lake Shore Drive Reconstruction, 2006

For Bicycle

• Houston-Galveston Area Council , Pedestrian and Bicyclist Districts Conceptual Plan and Project, 2007
• City of Irvine, CA, I-405/Jeffrey Trail and Overcrossing, 2006

For Facilities

• Texas Department of Transportation Houston District, 2009
• Illinois Tollway, South Tri-State Tollway Reconstruction Project, 2007
• Orange County, CA, Transportation Authority/Riverside County, CA Transportation Commission, Riverside - Orange County Major Investment Study, 2006
• Florida Department of Transportation (FLDOT), 2005
• Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT), 2004
• Oklahoma Department of Transportation, 2003
• Alabama Department of Transportation, 2002
• Cypress Replacement Project, 1999
• Confederation Bridge, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1998
• Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas, 1997
• 91 Express Lanes Project, 1996
• Denver International Airport, 1995
• Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works (Intermodal Transportation System), 1993
• Downtown Seattle Transit Project, 1991
• Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, and Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, 1989
• Arizona Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Phoenix Freeway Plan, 1988
• Santa Ana (California) Regional Transportation Center, 1986
• Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation, Rail Service to the Virginia Eastern Shore, 1985

For Operations

• Mississippi Department of Transportation, Reconnecting Mississippi's Coastal Communites Through ITS, 2009
• Transportation Expansion Project (T-REX), Transportation Expansion Project, 2007
• Minnesota Department of Transportation, I-394 MnPASS HOT Lane Conversion, 2006
• National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC), 2005
• The City of Philadelphia, PA, 2004
• ATMS/NTCIP Integration Project Phoenix, Arizona, 2003
• Utah Department of Transportation, Salt Lake City Transportation Division, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake Organizing Committee Transportation Department, 2002
• Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, 2001
• AZTech ITS Model, 1999
• Montgomery County, Maryland, Advance Transportation Management System, 1998
• Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, GA, for ITS MARTA '96, the '96 Centennial Olympic games, and the North Line Extension, 1997
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1995 
• Los Angeles Area Transportation Agencies Partnership, 1994
• Colorado Department of Transportation, The New I-25 Traffic Control Support Program, 1993
• TravTek (American Automobile Association, City of Orlando, Federal Highway Administration, Florida Department of Transportation, General Motors Corporation), 1992
• Transportation Operations Coordinating Committee, TRANSCOM, 1991
• California Department of Transportation, District 4, Transit Operators' Coordinating Council, Metropolitan Transportation Commissison, San Francisco Bay area for heroic, effective, imaginative and prompt response to disruption caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake, 1990
• City of Arlington, Texas, Department of Transportation, 1989
• Metropolitan Transit Development Board, Light Rail System, 1988
• Illinois DOT Freeway Traffic Management Program, 1987
• Glenwood Canyon (Colorado) I-70 Traffic Control Program, 1986
• Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, 1984

For Pedestrians

• World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and The Louis Berger Group Inc., World Trade Center Memorial Pedestrian Simulations Modeling Program, 2007
• Transit Cooperative Research Program and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (TCRP/NCHRP), 2006

For Safety

• California Highway Patrol, 2009
• Texas Transportation Institute, Teens in the Driver Seat, 2007
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Accident Analysis and Mitigation System, 2006
• U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 2005
• South Carolina Department of Transportation and the South Carolina Division Office of the Federal Highway Administration, 2005

For Signal Systems

• Pinellas County, FL, USA, Public Works, Traffic Management Division, Countywide ATMS Adaptive Signal System, 2007
• County of Santa Clara, CA, Traffic Management - Traffic Signal Re-timing and Synchonization on Santa Clara Expressways, 2006