The Competition: This new award will recognize student projects with a substantial transportation planning and design component.

Submission Requirements: Individual students or student teams should submit: (1) a summary of no more than 500 words that clearly demonstrates the project's application to transportation planning and design; (2) three to five images illustrating proposed solutions to transportation-related needs or challenges; and (3) a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty member.

Eligibility and Rules: (1) Projects must have been originally created by a single student or group of students for a graduate-level studio or capstone project completed during the fall of 2009; (2) a project may be submitted only once; submissions may not be revised and resubmitted; (3) a title page must be included with student name(s), address, degree program and school, date of project completion, and a phone number. No name or other identification should be included on images or text summary; (5) Entries will only be accepted via e-mail; PDF is the preferred format.

The Award: The winning submission will receive a modest honorarium and be announced on the APA Transportation Planning Division and APA NY Metro Chapter websites and in the Rudin Center's New York Transportation Journal, an electronic publication viewed by thousands of readers. The winning project will be posted along with the submitted images and project summary as part of the Journal's New Voices feature.

Selection Criteria: A committee of Rudin Center staff, NYU Wagner planning faculty and APA members will review all submissions using blind review. The materials will be judged on (1) relevance to a current need or challenge in transportation planning and design; (2) quality of graphic images and effectiveness in illustrating a solution to a transportation need or challenge; and (3) innovation in approach to resolving a transportation need or challenge.

Submissions are due by 5:00pm on March 1st, 2010 to [email protected]. Please direct questions to this email address or Emily Dowdall at (212) 998.7450 or visit the Rudin Center site at http://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/about/