Theodore M. Matson contributed greatly to the common welfare through the advancement of the techniques of traffic engineering and through training of those in the profession. The Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award honors outstanding contributions in the field of traffic engineering, including practical application of traffic engineering techniques or principles, valuable contributions through research, successful adaptation of research findings to a practical traffic situation and the advancement of the profession through training or administration.
1957 O.K. Normann
1958 D. Grant Mickle
1959 Charles W. Prisk
1960 Burton W. Marsh
1961 John L. Barker
1962 Charles M. Noble
1963 Nathan Cherniack
1964 George M. Webb
1965 Wilbur S. Smith
1966 Guy Kelcey
1967 Alger F. Malo
1968 Henry A. Barnes
1969 Fred W. Hurd
1970 Edward H. Holmes
1971 Edmund R. Ricker
1972 Donald S. Berry
1973 David M. Baldwin
1974 Harmer E. Davis
1975 Louis E. Bender
1976 Bruce D. Greenshields
1977 H. Robert Burton
1978 Theodore W. Forbes
1979 Harold L. Michael
1980 Robert S. Holmes
1981 James H. Kell
1982 John F. Exnicios
1983 Woodrow W. Rankin
1984 Robert E. Conner
1985 Carlton C. Robinson
1986 Herman J. Hoose
1987 Edward M. Hall
1988 John E. Baerwald
1989 Lester P. Lamm
1990 S. Edwin Rowe
1991 Jack E. Leisch
1992 Adolf D. May Jr.
1993 Francis B. Francois
1994 Daniel J. Hanson Sr.
1995 Thomas B. Deen
1996 William R. McGrath
1997 Herbert S. Levinson
1998 Jack L. Kay
1999 Thomas Hicks
2000 Michael D. Meyer
2001 Ethlyn Ann Hansen
2002 Philip J. Tarnoff
2003 Stephen C. Lockwood
2004 James L. Pline
2005 John M. Mason
2006 Eugene M. Wilson
2007 Wayne Tanda
2008 David Kuemmel
2009 Timothy J. Lomax
2010 John LaPlante
2011 C. Michael Walton
2012 Kenneth F. Kobetsky
2013 Wayne K. Kittelson
2014 Thomas W. Brahms
2015 Kirk T. Steudle
2016 Dennis L. Christiansen
2017 Patricia B. Noyes
2018 Beverly T. Kuhn
2019 Marsha D. Anderson Bomar
2020 Walter H. Kraft
2021 H. Allen Swanson
2022 Chandra R. Bhat