Nominations for the 2025 Awards are now closed. Annual voting by WTS members takes place in November and winners are announced early in the next calendar year. 

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Award criteria: 

1. The innovative purpose of the transportation initiative, solution, project or policy and the number of women involved from initiation to completion.  
    
2. Key elements of the project are innovative and how the female project manager successfully implemented those elements.  
    
3. Illustrate how the female project manager successfully met and overcame challenges.  
    
4. How the project achieved its purpose. 

 

Year     Recipient

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2025    Plan of Action for Regional Transit, CMAP

 

2024      75th Street Corridor Improvement Program, CREATE 

2023      Red and Purple Modernization Program, CTA

2022     Improving Equity in Transportation Fees, Fines and Fares, CMAP

2021      Fair Transit South Cook County

2020     Pulse Milwaukee Line, Pace

2019      Central Tri-State Master Plan

2018      95th Street Terminal Improvement, CTA

2017       Loop Link

2016      The 606

2015      Divvy Bikeshare

2014      Bus on Shoulder, Pace

2013      Chicago Streets for Cycling Plan 2020

2012      Sustainable Airport Manual, CDA

2011       Bus Tracker, CTA