Caltrans Excellence in Transportation (EIT) Awards

Your nomination will be scored based on the following criteria:

Successfully engaged stakeholders to address community/regional rural context and integrate project to its rural surroundings.
Enhances transportation system with travel options and local and regional connectivity.
Use of alignment and design enhancing visual and scenic quality.
Roadway and roadside design support preservation of environmental, natural, cultural or historic resources through use of innovative products, materials, procedures and processes, preservation and use of native vegetation or non-native, site-appropriate vegetation to minimize supplemental irrigation.
Demonstrates use of innovative materials or processes.

Entry Checklist

Each project nomination must consist of the following:

Project Summary, Project Narrative, and Entrant Organizations and Contributing Individuals .
One signed District/Deputy Director Approval form (DOCX). Note: Only Caltrans-nominated projects must include this form. A single approval form can be used for multiple entries. Nominations made by all other agencies/organizations do not need to include this form.
Project Photographs Note: Photograph names must consist of category and project title.
- Include color photographs displaying different views of the project.
- At least one hi-resolution landscape photograph.
  - If your project wins, we will use one of the hi-resolution landscape photographs for your plaque and the website.
  - Collages of smaller pictures may be submitted for photographs.
One signed photographer's release (DOCX) for each photo giving Caltrans the right to use and reproduce the photos without an additional charge. Photos taken by Caltrans staff during their work do not need a signed release.

Submit all forms noted above to the corresponding SmartSheet Link under the corresponding category.

Email any questions to EIT@dot.ca.gov

All materials entered become the property of Caltrans and will not be returned.