Celebrating Research Excellence
Join us for an unforgettable evening at the NTRO Awards Night & Gala, a prestigious celebration of innovation, leadership, and excellence in transport research. As a highlight of the NTRO Conference, this exclusive event brings together industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators for a night of recognition, networking, and entertainment. Enjoy a world-class dining experience, inspiring speeches, and the presentation of awards honouring outstanding contributions to the transport sector. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with key decision-makers and celebrate the future of transport. Secure your seat today and be part of an evening that shapes the future of the industry.
Open to industry professionals, researchers, and changemakers, these awards highlight ground-breaking achievements that drive progress and shape the future of transport. Nominations are open to those who have demonstrated outstanding contributions, with diverse categories designed to honour advancements across various areas of the industry. Whether you’re nominating a colleague, a team, or yourself, this is your opportunity to gain well-deserved recognition on a national stage. Submit your nomination today and be part of celebrating the best in transport.
Recognises an individual, an organisation, or group of organisations working collaboratively to reduce the carbon footprint of road, rail, airport or port transport infrastructure in Australia, New Zealand or Oceania through innovative design, materials or technologies.
The project or initiative must have had some - albeit minor - implementation beyond theory or design.
Recognises an individual, an organisation, or group of organisations working collaboratively, to enhance community connectivity through innovative transport solutions, and interfaces between transport modes and surrounding places or precincts in Australia, New Zealand or Oceania.
The project or initiative must have had some - albeit minor - implementation beyond theory or design.
Training of researchers is essential to ensure sustainability of our problem-solving capabilities. Because transportation has so many touchpoints with society, we need to be training experts in a broad range of disciplines – including but not limited to engineering, science, design, business, economics and the humanities.
This award is made to an Australia, New Zealand or Oceania-based researcher under 35 years of age, who has made significant progress in tackling a transportation-related problem in the previous 12 months as part of their research activities. Nominees must be able to identify – when they are part of a research team – their specific contribution in the progress made.
Nominees must be under 35 years of age on 31 December 2024. Nominees can self-nominate.
This award is presented in recognition of an individual’s outstanding leadership and contribution to the Australian, New Zealand or Oceania land transportation sector over 25 years or more, based on an enduring track record of research, development and implementation activities.
This award recognises an individual who has:
In doing all of the above this nominee has:
As such, they are stand-out inspirational figures for current and next generation research and development professionals.
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