Annual Section Awards
2023-2024 Nominations OPEN!
The ITE Washington State Section is soliciting our transportation planning and engineering community to submit your best nominations for recognition! We are looking for your exceptional project work that has contributed to the success of our transportation programs, infrastructure, and organization.
This year’s nominations are due at 5 PM on December 6th, 2024.
Every year our section seeks nominations for projects, programs or studies that help advance the transportation industry. Nominations are available for each of the 5 categories identified by the ITE International guidelines: Complete Streets, Transportation System Management and Operations, Safety, Planning and Traffic Engineering.
All selected awardees will receive the “ITE Washington State Section Transportation Achievement Nominee” award in their given category at our January 2025 program. These nominees will go on to compete against other top programs/projects in the Western District and potentially ITE International. This gives our Washington State Section a chance to show off our best transportation projects at the District and International level.
For more information and to complete the nomination form, please download a copy of the 2024 ITE WA Section Award Nomination Form and Rules.
For examples of previous recipients, please check out the ITE Western District Awards page Transportation Project of the Year | ITE Western District (westernite.org)
Congratulations to 2022-2023 ITE Washington Section Award Winners
Traffic Engineering: West Marginal Way – Ped, Bike and Freight Improvements (SDOT)
West Marginal Way SW connects communities and industrial businesses along the western bank of the Duwamish Waterway. It is a major truck street between bridges and connects to Port of Seattle facilities. The street also provides direct access to the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center, parks, and residences as well as shipping, manufacturing, and industrial areas. This project was designed to make the street safer, more convenient, and more comfortable for everyone, and encourage people walking and biking to use West Marginal Way SW. For this project, SDOT conducted data collection on West Marginal Way SW four times and closed the southbound curbside travel lane for 0.4-miles of the 2.5-mile corridor (from SW Marginal Pl to the Duwamish Longhouse) for 2 weeks in Fall 2022 to better understand the traffic impacts to people driving cars and trucks about the proposal to reuse one southbound travel lane for a Protected Bike Lane.
Complete Street: Green Lake Outer Loop (SDOT)
The Green Lake Outer Loop is a connected outer path around Green Lake Park. This outer loop provides more travel options for people walking, running, biking, and create better connections to surrounding neighborhoods. Based on community feedback, Vision Zero safety goals, and desire to provide more travel options, SDOT built off two recently completed projects around Green Lake (Green Lake and Wallingford Multimodal Paving Project and a biking path on W Green Lake Way N) to create more travel options.
Planning: Routes to Rails Accessing Transit Campaign (Redmond)
In this project, the City of Redmond sought to engage the broader community in identifying areas of high need in accessing the four new light rail stations by prioritizing active transportation connections and vulnerable populations to implement a pilot project developed with the community. The project included 3 Phased: engagement, project selection and implementation. After conducting community engagement, the city implemented two pilot projects: Heron Rookery Trail Wayfinding (installed in June 2023) and pedestrian improvements at the adjacent 161st Avenue NE/Bear Creek Parkway intersection.
TSMO: Dedicated Overnight Truck Tractor Parking – Harbor Island (SDOT)
An on-going issue with the lack of overnight truck tractor parking near the Port facilities in Seattle has led to truck tractors being parked in neighborhoods such as Georgetown, South Park, Rainier Valley and SODO. Some of those areas are residential in nature and the residents take issue with large truck tractors taking up their on-street parking in front of their homes, circulating on residential streets looking for parking, or idling loudly in the early morning hours. As such, the SDOT team worked in collaboration with the Port of Seattle/Northwest Seaport Alliance and Seattle City Council to pass legislation (11.72.445) to allow for the creation of dedicated on-street, overnight truck tractor parking. After implementing on of the parking area, follow up study found the parking was fully utilized and helped address the issues within residential neighborhoods.
All four of these projects will be advanced to the Western District Project of the Year competition. For the Washington State Section, the Project of the Year awards goes too…. West Marginal Way!