AzTA/ADOT Excellence Awards Presented By:

2015AzTA/ADOT Excellence

Awards

• 2015 Scholarship Award Recognitionand

• 9 Excellence Award Categories• 26 nominations

AzTA Scholarship Award

• AzTA partners with WTS each year to offer a scholarship to a deserving graduate student who is focusing on public transportation as a career choice. This year, AzTA is awarding a $1,000 Graduate Student Scholarship

And the Winner Is:

Andisheh Ranjbari

University of Arizona

Outstanding Transit Organization

• Recognizes the organization (any size or type in Arizona) that has demonstrated outstanding innovation, creativity, customer service and operational improvements in providing public transportation services.

Award Nominees

•City of Tucson’s Sun Link Streetcar•Transdev (City of Phoenix)

And the Winner Is:

City of Tucson’s Sun Link Streetcar

Outstanding Transit Individual

• Recognizes an individual that has provided outstanding leadership and/or contributions to public transportation programs to the transit industry, to a jurisdiction or municipality, or to the private sector to improve the quality of transit services

Award Nominees

•Shelly Ginn, City of Tucson (Tucson StreetCar)•Katrina Heineking, Transdev (City of Phoenix)•Kristen Sexton, City of Avondale

And the Winner Is:

Kristen SextonCity of Avondale

Outstanding Special Needs Transportation

• Recognizes the outstanding provider of services for elderly persons and persons with disabilities, through improvements or innovations in operational efficiency and customer service.

Award Nominees

•Vista Transit (Special Needs Program), City of Sierra Vista Public Works Dept.•Sun Van, Kate Riley (City of Tucson)•HOPE, Inc. (Pima County)•City of Quartzite, Laura Bruno

And the Winner Is:

HOPE, Inc. (Pima County)

Outstanding Rural/Small Urban Transit System

• Recognizes the outstanding provider of public transportation in rural or small urbanized areas through improvements or innovations in operations efficiency and customer service

Award Nominees

•Bullhead City’s “BATS”•“Zoom”, City of Avondale•United Community Health Center, Maria Auxiladora, Inc. (Green Valley)•Four Seasons/White Mountain Connection (Show Low)•Cottonwood Area Transit (CAT)

And the Winner Is:

Bullhead City’s “BATS”

Outstanding Transit Innovation

• Recognizes an individual(s), organization, or group that has demonstrated innovative program creation, development, management and/or delivery for public transportation service, existing or new public transportation program or system, or transit resources.

And the Winner Is:

Gene Caywood

Southern Arizona Transit Advocates

& Old Pueblo Trolley

Outstanding Training Program

• Recognizes an individual(s), organization, or group that has demonstrated innovative program creation, development, management and/or delivery for a transit training program.

Award Nominees

•NAIPTA Training Program (Flagstaff)•Transdev (City of Phoenix)

And the Winner Is:

Transdev (City of Phoenix)

Outstanding Vendor

• Recognizes a private sector supplier which has demonstrated superior support to the transit industry through its business enterprise providing goods, services, or other support.

Award Nominees

•National Express (YCIPTA)•Transdev Sun Tran/Kate Riley (City of Tucson)•A-1 Fleet Smart (Bullhead City)•Mike Clinkingbeard, W.W.Williams (Phoenix)

And the Winner Is:

Mike Clinkingbeard

W.W.Williams (Phoenix)

Congressman Ed Pastor Friend of Transit

• Presented in honor of Congressman Ed Pastor, recognizes an individual, group, organization, or business that has demonstrated outstanding support of transit causes, promotes transit programs, and/or develops transit resources that builds the profession and its practitioners

Award Nominees

•Alan Wulkan, The Wulkan Group•Congresspersons Kirkpatrick and Gosar (District 1—Flagstaff region)•NW Valley Transportation Stakeholder’s Coalition (Bonnie Boyce-Wilson) and Benevilla

And the Winner Is:

Alan WulkanThe Wulkan Group

Dave Barber Straight Talk• Presented in honor of past Board

Member Dave Barber, recognizes an individual demonstrating excellence in transit advocacy with the general public, elected leaders, and/or within the community by consistently speaking succinctly to transit issues with clear, concise, factual, and to-the-point statements about public transportation

And the Winner Is:

Paul Miller

Arizona Bus Sales Creative Bus Sales