DTMI’s Urban Mobility team received honours at last month’s IPWEA WA 2026 Excellence Awards.
The team took out the prestigious Sarkis Petrossian Award, WA's highest recognition for innovative practice in traffic safety management, for the Safe Active Streets (SAS) Pilot Program and Evaluation.
Michelle Prior, Director Active Transport said the achievement recognises the pilot program efforts over 11 years, 23 projects and extensive evaluation of nine projects.
"This award goes to everyone involved, past and present - the planners, engineers and project managers who supported the planning and delivery, the local governments who managed resident interfaces and of course the team who conceived, implemented and analysed the project level and program level evaluation.”
The extensive and thorough evaluation was critical to ensure the story about safe active streets could be told, including the design elements that worked, the impact on road user behaviours, and the cost benefit outcomes.
Lead evaluator Zarin Salter, highlighted that the evaluation of the Safe Active Streets program has been well received by the industry.
"The evidence is clear and we can definitively say safe active streets are a safe, successful and cost-effective road design option for shared local street spaces."
The SAS Pilot Program tested design features on local streets to create safer, lower-speed environments for people walking, wheeling and riding, while maintaining access for people driving.
The evaluation included on-street measurements and observations, stakeholder input and structured analysis to build a clear evidence base for what works.
To cap off the awards, Urban Mobility was also highly commended in the Excellence in Road Safety Projects award category and with the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, won the Best Public Works Project under $2 million (regional) award.
