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History
Efforts to honor the best the highway community has to offer began in February 1967 when, inspired by Lady Bird Johnson's crusade to beautify the Nation's highways, Secretary of Transportation Alan Boyd announced the start of a competition, called "The Highway and Its Environment," to recognize the efforts and achievements of public agencies and private organizations in protecting, restoring, and enhancing highway beauty. In that competition and its broader successor, "Excellence in Highway Design" (1984 to the present), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has had the privilege of showcasing hundreds of outstanding examples of highways, bridges, bicycle paths, pedestrian facilities, and roadside facilities that demonstrate what we can do when we unleash the creativity and sensitivity of the thousands of men and women we call "the highway community."
There was no FHWA awards program in 2000. Instead, in 2000 the U.S. Department of Transportation held the "Design for Transportation National Awards 2000" which encompasses all transportation modes, including highways.
