CALL FOR INNOVATION AWARDS: NOMINATE YOUR CANDIDATE UNTIL 27 OCTOBER 2021

The 2021 STA Annual Innovation Awards are going to be once again part of the 2021 STA Annual Conference at the end of November (exact dates TBC soon). The Call for Entries for the Person of the Year and Best Innovation Solution/Project categories are now open and will close on 27 October 2021.

The STA Annual Innovation Awards honour global innovators that have decisively contributed to deploying Smart Transportation Infrastructures (Person of the Year Category) and to improving the methods, technologies and standards associated to transportation infrastructures (Best Innovation Solution/Project Category).

Each submission to the Person of the Year Category must include the following components:

• Short bio focusing on the features that make the decision-maker a good candidate for the award (100 words maximum);

• Overview of career achievements;

• Claims made for the deployment of Smart Transportation Infrastructures in his/her current and/or previous spheres of responsibility.

Each submission to the Best Innovation Solution/Project Category must include the following components:

• Abstract focusing on the features that make the solution or project a good candidate for the award (100 words maximum);

• Overview of the problem and its importance;

• Claims made for innovation and its implementation;

• Performance results, including scalability, time to market deployment, efficiency and peak performance;

• Implications for future systems and applications.

The Jury of the STA Annual Innovation Awards is made up of the members of the STA Management Committee.

Candidates can be nominated writing to our email until 27 October 2021. Recipients will be announced at the end of October and the ceremony will take place during the second half of November 2021.