CITE 2020 Excellence in Transportation Awards
Each year, CITE sponsors an awards program to honour the outstanding achievements of practitioners and students in the transportation field from acoss Canada. In light of the cancelled 2020 Annual Conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several honours recognizing distinguished service to CITE were not awarded in 2020. However, there is still much to celebrate as we recognize the following remarkable leaders in Canada's community of transportation professionals. STAN TEPLY OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL PROJECT AWARD The Plus 15 Network Study
McElhanney & The CIty of Calgary
The Stan Teply Award recognizes outstanding projects that showcase excellent technical achievement in transportation planning and/or engineering. The multiple worthy submissions were evaluated using the four award criterion: technical contents & transferability, complexity and innovation, project expectations, and overall presentation. This year’s winning project, the Plus 15 Network Study, was completed by McElhanney, along with subconsultants Level Playing Field, Dialog, and Entro, for the City of Calgary. They produced a network plan to improve the current Plus 15, a roughly 16 km system of interconnected and climate control pedestrian corridors and bridges throughout downtown Calgary. Learn more about the Plus 15 Network Study in the Project Profile on page 21
ITE TRANSPORTATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NOMINEES The ITE International Transportation Achievement Awards is awarded annually for significant and outstanding transportation achievements in the advancement of transportation. This year, CITE nominated Canadian projects in two categories to be considered for these awards. Complete Streets Category 41st Avenue RapidBus WSP & City of Vancouver Learn more about the 41st Ave RapidBus in this past Project Profile 13
TRANSPORTATION TALK | FALL 2020
Transportation Planning Category The Plus 15 Network Study McElhanney & The City of Calgary
