Awards
2019 Sweet Sixteen High Value Research Projects
The AASHTO Research Advisory Committee (RAC) each year asks states to identify and document recently completed “high-value” research projects. The Value of Research Task Force chair announces the solicitation notice to RAC for high value research projects in January each year.
2019 Best Practices in Traffic Records
“At the 45th Traffic Records Forum (2019) in Austin, TX, our Connecticut Team from CT DOT and UConn CTSRC, won First Place in Best Practices for the CT Roadway Safety Management System.”
2016 Peter K. O'Rourke Special Achievement Award
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) presented the Peter K. O’Rourke Special Achievement Award for outstanding highway safety accomplishments during the previous calendar year to The Connecticut DOT and UCONN Transportation Safety Research Center for Crash Data Improvement, a partnership that developed a statewide electronic reporting system based on the national Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) that provides real time crash data to all highway safety users.
2016 Dean's Excellence Award
The UCONN School of Engineering has recently established the Dean's Excellence Award recognizing faculty or staff whose work has made a significant impact in research, education or engagement.
2015 Bright Ideas Program
“Bright Ideas an initiative that recognizes creative and promising government programs and partnerships. The initiative is offered through the Innovations in Government Program, a program of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. For more information, please visit http://innovationsaward.harvard.edu/brightideas.cfm”
2015 Best Practices in Traffic Records
“This year at the 41st International Forum on Traffic Records and Highway Information Systems, our Connecticut Team, which encompasses the CTSRC and the CT DOT, won First Place for Best Practices in Traffic Records!”