Get the recognition your work deserves.
Free to enter for any organisation working in the sector.
Entries can be submitted by anyone whether a CIHT member or not.
This award recognises projects, schemes, products, and strategies that can demonstrate the delivery of a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
The judging of this award will look for examples of reduction arising from the movement of people and goods or from design, construction, operation & maintenance, and decommissioning of transport infrastructure.
The entry can also address how the initiative’s implementation has also delivered wider financial, economic, and social benefits.
The entry must show that the organisation has provided leadership and vision in taking climate action.
Examples of entries (but not limited to):
Product innovation and development that enables decarbonisation
Reducing the need to travel or enabling high levels of modal shift to active travel and public transport
Organisations that have created and implemented ambitious decarbonisation strategies and targets above and beyond industry standards
Infrastructure projects that have delivered significant carbon reduction, in particular those that have eliminated or significantly reduced the need for construction works
Key dates
Entries Open - 8 January 2024
Deadline for Entries - Extended to 11.57pm 11 March 2024
Shortlist announced - 23 April 2024
Awards Evening (Bookings for tables will be open soon) - 13 June 2024 - Venue: 8 Northumberland Ave WC2N 5BY,
All entry submissions must be made online via the online entry portal.
Submissions must be made in English only.
Information on what is required for the perfect entry is below.
Your work needs to have been live at some point between 01/01/2022 and 01/01/2024 and address all judging criteria.
In addition, for the judges to be able to properly assess how the entry has led to achieving the benefits intended, at the time of entry, it should have been fully implemented or open to use for a period of at least 6 months and no earlier than 01/01/2022. This will enable you to provide data and evidence that can demonstrate the projects’ positive impact, results and benefits to users.
Entries are open to every company or organisation working in the sector, whether a CIHT partner or not
Entries can be submitted by anyone whether a CIHT member or not.
An organisation can also enter as many distinct eligible projects as they wish for a category
Provide us with an overview of your entry. Tell us what makes your entry a winning one- strategy, creativity and results. Be clear, concise and tell us why your work is worth further attention.
Provide us with a clear definition of the outcomes your project/product/strategy/initiative was trying to achieve and why. Focus on describing the context in which it took place, the issues or challenges it was trying to solve and how these were impacting transport and society.
Focus on aligning with the description for this specific award.
Tell us about how you decided to solve the problem you have identified in section 1 and why your approach was the best solution. Provide the insights that inspired your approach and made it innovative, creative and unique.
The judges will reward applications that can demonstrate:
Please describe the key milestones for the successful implementation of the work (e.g. planning, design, delivery, risks management, possible unforeseen circumstances and how you manged them).
Include a description of how you made sure that all relevant stakeholders were engaged in the implementation phase.
The judges are particularly interested in how challenges and opportunities have been identified and addressed.
Please describe the results of your work providing quantitative and qualitative evidence.
The judges will reward applications that can demonstrate through quantitative data :
Judges will award additional marks to applications that can demonstrate a contribution to CIHT’s values:
You are the owner of all intellectual rights in your entry or have all necessary consents from all other owner(s) of intellectual rights in your entry.
Entries must be received no later than the published deadline date.
All submissions must be made online.
All entries must be supplied and conform to the category rules and submission formats.
Work entered into more than one category must be treated as a completely separate entry, we encourage you to address the different criteria for each category you are submitting your entry.
The judges’ decision is final.
Due to the number of entries received, we cannot give feedback on individual entries.
By entering these awards, you give the organisers the right to share, publish and otherwise use the entry in all media and CIHT Policy and Technical publications.
The evidence contained in the submission must be correct and you can provide further details if required.
The organisers reserve the right to verify that all entries have been produced for a client or for the public where relevant.
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Get the recognition your work deserves.
Free to enter for any organisation working in the sector.
Entries can be submitted by anyone whether a CIHT member or not.
