AASHTOAmerica's Transportation Awards
State DOT projects judged on quality of life, operations excellence, innovation and safety — regional rounds feed a national Top 12.
- Reach
- Regional → national
- Run by
- AASHTO
- Disciplines
- Civil · Bridge & Structural · CEI & Inspection
Who enters
State departments of transportation submit their own completed projects. The consultants and contractors who delivered them are named in the entry.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. AASHTO publishes the current one.
- Quality of Life / Community Development
- Operations Excellence
- Best Use of Innovation
- Safety
The route, start to finish
- 01State DOT submits into its AASHTO region
- 02Regional judging in each competition category
- 03Regional winners form a national Top 12
- 04Grand Prize and a People's Choice award decided from the Top 12
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not AASHTO’s.
This one is about who a candidate has worked for as much as what they built. Someone whose project went up through a state DOT knows how that agency reviews, approves and pays — which is most of what makes a DOT hire productive in the first six months.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Transportation Engineer
- CEI Inspector
- Resident Engineer
- Design-Build Coordinator
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the America's Transportation Awards. The AASHTO name and mark belong to AASHTO, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.