NOCoE News: TSMO Award Submissions Now Open

Dec 11 2025 by adamhopps

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Submit your best TSMO projects in four categories and nominate a leader for the Joey Sagal TSMO Leadership Award.

December 11, 2025

2026 TSMO Awards badge with headline Submissions Are Now Open!

The NOCoE TSMO Awards celebrate the TSMO strategies and tools that leverage existing infrastructure to increase safety and reliability. Each year, NOCoE awards winners in four award categories and one Overall Winner chosen from those four categories.

Winners are celebrated at an industry event and their work is featured via NOCoE's partners and other industry leaders.

Most award submissions are also turned into NOCoE Case Studies, which form a library of TSMO strategies, tactics, and best practices that can be shared with other TSMO practitioners and organizations.

Submit your project by January 30, 2026 to be considered for a TSMO Award!

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Previous Best TSMO Project Winners:

2025: North Carolina DOT for their "NCDOT Hurricane Helene Response"
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2024: Pennsylvania DOT for their "Virtual Queue Protection Corridors"
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2023: Maryland DOT for their "I-270 Innovative Congestion Management (ICM) Ramp Metering"
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2022: New Jersey DOT for their "Improvements to Route 1 Using TSMO"
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2021: Pennsylvania DOT for their "TSMO Performance Program and Traffic Operations Analytics Tool"
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2025 TSMO Awards category description for Agency Improvement

Previous Agency Improvement Winners:

2025: Idaho DOT for their "A TSMO Transformation at the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD)"
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2024: Nevada DOT for their "NDOT TSMO Workforce Development Program"
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2023: Texas DOT for their "TxDOT TSMO Program - From Planning to Implementation"
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2022 Co-Winner: Manatee County for their "Expansion of TSMO Capabilities to Enhance Multimodal Safety Operation"
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2022 Co-Winner: Florida DOT for their "Central Office TSMO Implementation Plan"
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2021: North Carolina DOT for their "TIM Training Track"
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2025 TSMO Awards category description for Emerging Practices and Technologies

Previous Emerging Practices and Technologies Winners:

2025: Delaware DOT for their "Heavy Equipment Based Connected Work Zone"
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2024: Georgia DOT for their "Georgia Joint Agency Data Management Program"
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2023: Arizona DOT for their "Applying Emerging Technologies to the Arizona DOT Traveler Information Program"
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Performance Measurement TSMO Award category. Submit Now.

2026 TSMO Awards badge with headline Joey Sagal TSMO Leadership Award

Since 2019, NOCoE has named a TSMO Champion, an individual who has made significant contributions to advancing TSMO both inside their organization and within the industry at-large. The award is given via nominations from the industry, and then nominees are ranked by the leadership of the NOCoE partnership organizations.

In 2024, NOCoE renamed the award to the Joey Sagal TSMO Leadership Award. The award has maintained the same criteria and process as before, while adding a few items reflecting Joey Sagal’s legacy in the industry. Full criteria for nominees will be:

Advancing TSMO inside their organization(s)
Advancing TSMO across the country or within the industry at-large
Demonstrated contributions across areas of TSMO, from road side assistance and TIM to project delivery and organizational management
Demonstrated workforce development for personnel, including via career planning, training, or organizational culture

Nominate a leader by January 30, 2026!

NOMINATE A CHAMPION

Case Study Library

NOCoE Case Studies capture the strategies and practices currently being deployed to advance the TSMO industry and enable TSMO practitioners to save lives, time, and money.

Case studies are developed in partnership with the authoring organization or individual to succinctly transfer knowledge for the effective use by others in the industry. Many of the case studies come from TSMO Award Submissions.

Visit our case study library to view recently published NOCoE case studies.

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Upcoming Webinars

NOCoE webinar Road Features for Automated Driving Systems Readiness Feasibility Assessment, Methods, and Tools. February 4th, 2026 from 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST

NOCoE webinar AI Uses for TSMO February 11th, 2026 from 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST

Industry News

‘Road diets’ in Las Vegas: Removing traffic lanes for bike, bus lanes (KVVU-TV)

New Highway Cameras Across Northeast Oregon Aid Holiday Travelers As Snow Looms (Baker City Herald)

Philly shares its roadmap to reducing traffic-related deaths and injuries (Billy Penn)

Montana lawmakers take a closer look at autonomous vehicles (Daily Montanan)

UDOT Launches Ogden Valley Travel Resource Website (Utah DOT)

Hawaii Hands Out 1,000 AI-Powered Dashcams To Monitor Road Conditions, Help Identify Road Rage, Reckless Driving (Notebookcheck)

Truck Parking: FMCSA Plans Survey Of ‘Several Thousand Truck Drivers’ (Overdrive)

DHS Launches $500 Million Grant Program to Help States Counter Rogue Drones Ahead of 2026 World Cup and America 250 Events (Homeland Security Today)

Virginia DOT Ends Hampton Roads’ Highway Advisory Radio After Decades (WVEC-TV)

Arizona Drivers Get New Online Hub For Road Safety Resources (KVOA-TV)

Rural Minnesota transit system expands service with driverless vehicles (NPR’s Morning Edition)

New Traffic Light Technology To Reduce Wait Time At Metro Detroit Intersections (Michigan Public)

Study: Flashing LED lights can reduce crashes on curves (Talking Michigan Transportation podcast)

New Jersey DOT Installs Smart Safety Technology at State’s 10 Most Dangerous Intersections (New Jersey DOT news release)

RIDOT to Expand Successful Roadside Responder Program (Rhode Island DOT news release)

WisDOT applauds expansion of Move Over Law to further protect motorists (Wisconsin DOT)

About the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE)

NOCoE provides services to the transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) community to saves lives, improve travel times, and enhance economic vitality. With an emphasis on workforce development, NOCoE aims to assist in the deployment of technologies and the mainstreaming of TSMO solutions by fostering education, networking, communication, and knowledge transfer.

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