ITS United Kingdom makes 2009 National Awards

Creation date: 20 March 2009

ITS (UK), the Intelligent Transport Society for the United Kingdom, has made four Awards for excellence in ITS:

• The Hills Rees annual award for personal contribution has been given to Professor Mike McDonald of the University of Southampton.
• The young ITS professional of the year award was made to Jo Scott of Atkins.
• The Scheme of the year award went to Transport for London for the UTC and SCOOT to VISSIM interface.
• The Forward Thinking award for innovation went to TRL for the TRANSYT to VISSIM interface.

The awards are open to any organisation or individual with a UK business office and that has a significant UK telematics or other ITS content.

The nominations were judged by an eminent panel of ITS professionals chaired by ITS (UK) President and former Transport Minister, Steven Norris. 

The Panel Members were:-

 - Russell Whale, FaberMaunsell
 - Kevin Borras, h3b media
 - Jill Adam, Department for Transport
 - Anil Namdeo, University of Newcastle
 - Janet Cooke, London TravelWatch
 - George Gillespie, Glasgow City Council
 - Neal Skelton, ITS United Kingdom

The awards were presented by Steven Norris at the ITS United Kingdom President’s Dinner at Watermen’s Hall in the City of London on 10 March 2009 in London.