Green Award — 2010
Lipscomb University selected MTA as the winner for "Green Service of the Year" for the inaugural Green Business Leadership
Awards. MTA CEO Paul J. Ballard accepted the award for MTA during an awards luncheon on April 14 at the 2010 Green Business
Summit.
"The committee felt MTA just keeps optimizing transportation sustainability in Nashville with its new routes, the new Music
City Connector, new hybrid buses, and the ability to travel with MTA using Google Pedestrian," said Alan Sparkman, a member
of the awards committee and executive director of the Tennessee Concrete Association. "The committee agreed that we liked
where public transportation in Nashville is heading. As Green Service of the Year, we hope that MTA will continue to build on
its momentum and continue to improve Nashville's public transportation needs."
The Green Business Leadership Awards recognize businesses, individuals and organizations that have demonstrated unusually
exceptional leadership in green business practices and to encourage others to exceed their example.
Engineering Excellence Award
In addition, the MTA received a 2010 Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of
Tennessee in March for the exceptional design of MTA's downtown transit center, Music City Central. TranSystems Senior Vice
President Jeff Reeder and MTA CEO Paul J. Ballard attended the event and accepted the award.
Fexy Award — 2010
The Nashville MTA is the recipient of a special award for its Music City Central Station signage program. In April, 2010, MTA
won a Fexy award, which honors outstanding use of Photoshop®, Illustrator®, After Effects®, Flash®, Apple Motion®, Final
Cut®, filters and other FX software in print, Web, and moving pixels, will be sent to us in the coming weeks. The Fexy awards
are sponsored by the American Pixel Academy.
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Proud Recipient of a 2005 TMCA Tranny Award of Merit
In May 2005, MTA received a Transportation Marketing & Communications Association (TMCA) Award of Merit
in the Integrated Communications category for its public awareness campaign regarding a recent fare adjustment.
The awards program recognizes organizations in North America transportation and logistics that have created
an effective strategic marketing or communications program.
This year, TMCA received a record number of entries totaling more than 200 from 57 organizations. Nine
percent of those entries received awards of excellence and 39 percent received awards of merit.
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