The winners of the third annual CiTTi Awards have finally been revealed!
The winners were announced during a glittering gala dinner held on Tuesday 26 November 2024 at the historic De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.
Hosted by acclaimed Irish comedian Andrew Ryan, the ceremony championed and celebrated the hard work and innovation demonstrated by UK public-sector organisations and their private-sector partners in enabling the sustainable, safe and efficient movement of people, goods and materials through urban environments.
With some 150 transport professionals in attendance, the finalists comprised 115 shortlisted entries from 100 organisations across 20 categories that highlighted achievements in areas including – but not limited to – active travel, clean air, congestion reduction, electric vehicle charging, fleet innovation, last-mile delivery, public transport, road safety, shared mobility and smart parking.
New categories highlighted at the CiTTi Awards for the very first time included the AI Data Analytics Award, Ticketing & Payments Award, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Award, Mobility-as-a-Service Award, Micromobility Award, Urban Air Mobility Award, Transportation Education and Advocacy Award, Clean Air Initiative of the Year, Traffic Management Award, Alternative Fuels Award, and City or Town of the Year Award.
Scroll down to discover the winners. You can also read the full stories behind all the successes – and more details on the categories and entry criteria – exclusively in the November 2024 issue of City Transport & Traffic Innovation Magazine!
The Active Travel Award: City of London Corporation
Why they won: Retrofitting the limited space to make it accessible whilst working with clear physical constraints has shown some innovation and best practice. The creation of new tools like CoLSAT and the additional engagement with Transport for All, going beyond the usual methods of engagement has shown clear innovation.
Shortlist
City of London Corporation
Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
HITRANS
London Borough of Waltham Forest
The Advanced Fleet Management and Software Innovation Award: CheckedSafe
Why they won: The entry provided a product bereft of tiered pricing, creating an affordable price which improves its viability. The entry also showed a good level of customer engagement and feedback throughout.
Shortlist
CheckedSafe
Smart Transport Hub
The Aurora Insights AI and Data Analytics Award: Citisense
Why they won: This project demonstrates clear innovation and consideration of the end user at its core, the multiple case studies and passion of the presenters made this a very exciting project to observe.
Shortlist
Citisense
Curb Cargo and Savills
DPD UK
Greenplan
GXO
Mobilityways with Prologis, Zeelo and Stagecoach
Transport for West Midlands and VivaCity (highly commended)
The Alternative Fuels Award: Nicholls Transport
Why they won: Nicholls are clear they are doing this for long-term sustainability benefits, giving the company a clear purpose and motivation, providing wider benefits to them and to wider society.
Shortlist
DPD UK
Evri
John Lewis Partnership
Nicholls Transport
Transport for London
The City or Town of the Year Award: Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership
Why they won: The trialling autonomous shuttles, increased use of ZEBs and Dutch style cycling junctions have quickly improved good quality the quality of infrastructure despite local opposition.
Shortlist
Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership
Highland Council with HITRANS & Stagecoach North Scotland
Medway Council & Project Centre
London Borough of Camden
The Clean Air Initiative of the Year Award: Transport Scotland
Why they won: A well-described, impressive scheme, with a long history and hopefully a world-class outcome, too soon to assess at this moment. Initial results are encouraging, as is the stable and adequate support maintained by the Scottish Government. The scheme appears to be scalable and readily adaptable to allow cities and regions to progress and tune to meet local needs.
Shortlist
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Transport Scotland
The Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Award: DPD UK
Why they won: DPD’s project has shown demonstrable benefits for the efficiency of it supply chain and speed of its business. The scalable element of each robot hints at exponential long-term potential.
Shortlist
DPD UK
Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership
Welsh government and Compass IoT (highly commended)
The EV Charging Infrastructure Award: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Why they won: One of the clear leaders within local government, with obvious leadership in mobility and new thinking on the use of carriageways over pavements. The project also demonstrated a very strong collaboration with a range of CPOs.
Shortlist
3ti
London Borough of Waltham Forest
InstaVolt
Q-Park UK
Falco UK & Solarcycle UK (highly commended)
The Last-Mile Logistics Award: Hubl Logistics
Why they won: We were impressed by the multiple, smaller but cumulative innovations that look to give this company, and thereby this entry, the edge.
Shortlist
Curb Cargo & Savills
Evri
Greenplan & EPG
Hubl Logistics
Zedify
Southwark Council with Grid Smarter Cities, Impact on Urban Health, Steer, Emsol & MP Smarter Travel (highly commended)
The Mobility-as-a-Service Award: Solent Transport
Why they won: The project successfully tackles the strategic objectives of the business, will improve connectivity and, with bus operators brought on board, will see instant community benefits.
Shortlist
HiTRANS with Motability, FOD Mobility Group & Enterprise Mobility
Solent Transport
Transport for Wales with Unicard, iBlocks, Vix Technologies & Cybersource
The Micromobility Award: London Borough of Camden & ITP
Why they won: Collaborating with the public and a limited number of partners, focusing instead on large-scale application, proved the recipe for success. The project is very well structured with steady progress.
Shortlist
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London Borough of Camden & ITP
London Borough of Waltham Forest
North Northamptonshire Council & Voi Technology
Falco UK & Solarcycle UK
HITRANS (highly commended)
The Public Transport Award: The University of Cambridge with Whippet
Why they won: Whippet are making strides to improve the passenger experience and are doing some fantastic work across the county. Loved that everyone mucks in with driving and cleaning of buses – this approach is great to ensure leadership really understand all facets of a business.
Shortlist
Edwards Coaches
Go-Ahead Group
The University of Cambridge with Whippet
Transport for London & PassageWay
Wiltshire Council with Go South Coast & Ioki
The Road Safety Award: Medway Council & Project Centre
Why they won: This is a very good scheme to improve active travel and safer communities and is replicable for other authorities. Impressed by the speed of the work and the ambition given political atmosphere around war on the motorist.
Shortlist
Medway Council & Project Centre
Metropolitan Police
SoMoCo
Transport for West Midlands & VivaCity
WSP
The Smart Parking Award: Q-Park
Why they won: Demonstrated a clear understanding of their clients’ needs, wants and how to adapt a business model around this. Streamlining the ease of use facilitates an improved customer experience and increases retention; a great entry all round.
Shortlist
APCOA
Q-Park
The Ticketing and Payments Award: Transport for Wales with Unicard
Why they won: Excellent evidence of innovation. Was clear is the Unicard understood the unique challenges of both the geography and the existing market and have taken an approach to mitigate these as much as possible.
Shortlist
Transport for Wales with Unicard
Q-Park UK
APCOA (highly commended)
The Marston Holdings Traffic Management Award: London Borough of Camden
Why they won: This entry is the clear winner in the traffic management category. Reducing traffic and heavily restricting traffic in some of the schemes and reducing the volume, flow and types of access: specifically at Tottenham Court Road has shown the greatest benefit.
Shortlist
Citisense
London Borough of Camden
The Transport Inclusivity and Accessibility Award: Solent Transport
Why they won: The presentation demonstrated a high level of innovation and learning, something which should be celebrated. There was innovation using the Breeze app, through the engagement with different stakeholders, through the monitoring and evaluation of the project. And it was clear that this project was part of a wider MaaS strategy – which is innovative.
Shortlist
City of Edinburgh & Marston Holdings
Govia Thameslink Railway with Thomas Pocklington Trust & Sight Loss Councils
HITRANS with Motability, FOD Mobility Group & Enterprise Mobility
Solent Transport
Transport for London
The Transport Planning Award: Mobilityways with Prologis, Zeelo & Stagecoach
Why they won: The project showed clear potential benefits. It also increased retention, recruitment, satisfaction, project metrics well described to meet customer / client needs
Shortlist
City of London Corporation
Medway Council & Project Centre
Mobilityways with Prologis, Zeelo & Stagecoach
Zeelo
WSP (highly commended)
The Transportation Education and Advocacy Award: SoMoCo
Why they won: An incredibly well-researched, evidenced, many customer and trial groups that has been conducted at a low cost. The findings from this study can be readily implemented with little friction at with a high success rate.
Shortlist
Metropolitan Police
London Borough of Camden with Fitzrovia Youth in Action and Sustrans (highly commended)
SoMoCO
The Urban Air Mobility Award: HITRANS
Why they won: Public and private sector collaboration evident throughout, with seemingly effective consultation with local people. Impressive and demonstrated work with the authority and complementary sustainable transport improvements.
Shortlist
Coventry City Council with Urban Air-Port
HITRANS
