Smarter Travel Professional of the Year

This award is for the individual smarter travel professional who has made an outstanding personal contribution to the industry. 

Sponsored by: YourBike

You can submit on your own behalf or a third party who wishes to nominate someone else for the award can submit an entry.

Please ensure the entry includes: 

• Name and role of nominee 

• Career History 

• Examples of the nominee doing the extra things that makes for outstanding performance

• Exemplar project case study 

• Testimonials illustrating a high level of respect amongst colleagues

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Shared Transport Project Award 

This award recognises the contribution made by shared transport, such as car clubs, ride sharing, public hire bike services and technology systems that make multi-modal travel practical for the general public.

Please ensure the entry includes:

• Project overview 

• The benefits experienced by users of shared mobility services – financial, environmental, cultural and social 

• The relationship shared between other shared mobility services and transport providers – formal, informal, contractual, collaborative etc.

• The cost-effectiveness of your transport solution to the and user and other stakeholders 

• Your vision for the future of shared transport and the role you will play

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Smarter Travel Innovation Award 

The Innovation award is open to all mobility related projects that display a commitment to design or technological innovation.

Sponsored by: Mott MacDonald

Please ensure the entry includes: 

• Description of the innovation 

• The extent to which the system, technology or approach is new and unique 

• The technical merit of the innovation 

• Deliverability of the innovation, practicalities and affordability of the solution 

• The individual or team responsible for the innovation and delivery of solution 

• How the innovation has been funded

Additional evidence.  The judges will also seek the following:

• The project has received positive and measurable results and community feedback 

• The innovation can be applied to other locations / schemes 

• The innovations demonstrate an advantage in regards to safety, usability or other project goals, compared with conventional approaches 

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Behaviour Change Campaign Award 

This award recognises the smarter travel behaviour change campaigns that engage with their target audiences, have a measurable impact, are replicable and represent great value for money.  They can be single medium or cross-channel.

Sponsored by: Merseytravel

Please ensure the entry includes:

• The target groups for your marketing campaign and how you tailored the campaign to meet their needs

• The level of engagement and the result you achieved, such as how many people were reached, follow-up contact, social media and the main outputs: levels of behaviour change achieved

• Campaign spend and resourcing, including cost per head, benefits to the user and to other stakeholders, such as a local authority, an employer, NHS Trust and so on 

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Mobility as a Service Project Award 

A new award for 2018 will reward innovations in Mobility as a Service.  The award will recognise developments in multi-modal and integrated travel through a MaaS platform that can handle all transport choices and payments.

Sponsored by: Innovate UK

Please ensure the entry includes:

• Overview of the project, scope of the project and delivery team 

• Details of MaaS project integration, including relationships with mobility operators; formal, informal, contractual, obligational 

• Overview of payment system and customer usability

• Results of pilot – modal share, impacts to congestion, 

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Accessible Transport Project Award 

The accessible transport award will recognise achievements in accessibility and those that are making transport available for all.

Please ensure the entry includes:

• Outline of project, project team, scale and budget 

• The results from the project including providing mobility options to new users, difference it has made: social, economic  

• How the innovation can be applied elsewhere 

• The benefits experienced by users of accessible transport project: financial, environmental, cultural and social 

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Demand Responsive Transport Award 

Flexible, demand responsive transport (DRT) has seen a resurgence in the last few years and is helping to support communities by making transport more accessible.  Technology has helped enable quick advances and new services in the DRT industry.  This award will recognise those at the front-line of innovations and service delivery. 

Sponsored by: Transport Systems Catapult

Please ensure the entry includes:

• A detailed overview of the DRT project, which location is currently services, the details of the project leader and the team 

• What has been the impact?

• Usability of the technology, costs to users, operators and public authority 

• What are the next steps for the project, expansion and roll-out elsewhere

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Passenger Transport Innovation Award 

The passenger transport innovation award will consider radical new thinking to increase passenger patronage, information systems, payments and ticketing, marketing and campaigns and innovations in vehicle technology.  

Please ensure the entry includes:

• Description of the innovation 

• The extent to which the system, technology or approach is new and unique 

• The technical merit of the innovation 

• Deliverability of the innovation, practicalities and affordability of the solution 

• Results: how is the innovation impacting patronage, customer usability, operational costs or any other benchmarks of success 

• The individual or team responsible for the innovation and delivery of solution 

• How the innovation has been funded 

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Connected Transport Award

The UK is a leader in the research and development of Connected & Autonomous Vehicle technology.  There are now over 60 pilots, mainly funded through the UK government / InnovateUK.  This award will recognise the project teams that are pushing the envelope and making CAVs a reality in our generation.

Please ensure the entry includes:

• Project overview, details of lead and team, plus information about wider nature of project: universities, researchers, public authorities, expert consultants 

• The technical merit of the project, uniqueness and new way of thinking 

• Working with partners, sharing data and technical expertise 

• How the project has been funded 

• Next steps for development

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

Best Smart City Project Award 

The best smart city project award will be awarded to the project that has best shown a holistic approach to becoming smarter, cleaner, safer and more sustainable.   Entries should reflect all elements that contribute to becoming a smart city: data, air quality, connectivity, physical and digital infrastructure and so on.

Sponsored by: Stagecoach

Please ensure the entry includes:

• Project overview to include scale of smart city development: how has technology improved operational efficiency, improvements to clean air and sustainability, management of mobility services 

• Details of the project team, budget and organisational structure 

Please limit the word count of the entire award entry to 1,000 words. Enter now!

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