Annual Awards

Past Annual Award Recipients

2011

• Public Service Leader Award: William Wheeler, Director of Special Project Development and Planning for the MTA

2009

• Public Leader Award: Susan Kupferman, President of MTA Bridges and Tunnels
  
• Civic Leadership Award: Joan Byron, Director of the Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development
• Public Servant Award: Raymond Sandiford, Chief Geotechnical Engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Robert Paaswell, Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering (CCNY), Director of the University Transportation Research Center, Region II, and Director of the City University Institute for Urban Systems
• Public Agency Award: MTA NYC Transit and NYCDOT: Select Bus Service - Bus Rapid Transit
• Best Paper Competition Winner: Xuegang Ban, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Bottleneck Identification and Calibration for Corridor Management Planning"

2008

• Public Leader Award: Honorable Michael Bloomberg, 108th Mayor of the New York City, 2001 - present
  
• Public Agency Award: MTA New York City Transit, Lexington Ave. Line Smartcard Pilot
• Public Servant Award: James Clifford Greller, Principal Planner, Hudson County Improvement Authority, NJ
• Civic Leadership Award: Jon Orcutt, Director of Policy for the New York City Department of Transportation
• Best Paper Competition Winner: José Holguín-Veras, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "An Investigation on the Effectiveness of Joint Receiver-Carrier Policies to Increase Truck Traffic in the Off-peak Hours"
[Pictures of the Recipients]

2007

• Best Paper Competition Winner: Daniel B. Hess, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Buffalo at the State University of New York
• Civic Leadership Award: Larry Filler, President and Chief Executive Officer, TransitCenter, Inc.
• Public Agency Award: New Jersey Transit for The Trans Hudson Express Tunnel (THE Tunnel) project, George Warrington, Executive Director
• Public Leader Award: Thomas Suozzi, County Executive of Nassau County
• Special Tribute Award: David Gunn, President of Amtrak from 2002 to 2005

2006

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Robert Olmsted, Transportation Consultant
  Public Agency Award: New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, Joel Ettinger, Executive Director, and Gerry Bogacz, Director, Planning Group
• Public Leader Award: Michael Ascher, President, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority 1990-2005
• Public Servant Award: Mark Muriello, Assistant Director, Operations Support, Tunnels, Bridges, & Terminals, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

2005

• Public Agency Award: Joseph Boardman, New York State Department of Transportation
• Civic Leadership Award: Beverly Dolinsky, Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA
• Public Servant Award: Peter Stangl, former Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• Special Tribute Award: Chris Ward, American Stevedoring Inc.

2004

• Civic Leadership Award: Richard Ravitch Ravitch, Rice & Co.
• Public Agency Award: The Port Authority of NY & NJ, AirTrain JFK, Anthony Cracchiolo NYC Department of Transportation, THRU Streets, Michael Primeggia
• Public Service Award: Emil Frankel US Department of Transportation

2003

• Public Agency Award: Mysore L. Nagaraja MTA New York City Transit
• Civic Leadership Award: Robert D. Yaro Regional Plan Association
• Public Service Award: Douglas A. Currey New York State Department of Transportation

2002

• Civic Leadership Award: John Kaehny Transportation Alternatives
• Public Agency Award: Iris Weinshall NYC DOT
• Public Service Award: Francis Lombardi The Port Authority of NY &NJ
  *A special 9/11 Tribute was awarded to Joseph Hofmann of NYC Transit and Arthur Imperatore, Jr. at NY Waterway. Special Memorial Tribute was awarded to Lewis Rudin.

2001

• Public Service Award: Hon. Jerrold Nadler NY Congressman
• Public Agency Award: E. Virgil Conway MTA
• Civic Leadership Award: Gene Russianoff NY Public Interest Research Group