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Innovate ITD continues to roll along, even in these uncertain and challenging times. Since the beginning in the spring of 2014, the department's innovation effort has generated nearly $11 million in savings and efficiencies, more than 212,000 hours saved, 660 customer service improvements and more than 1,600 employee ideas.

Making things safer, improving processes, and saving time and money is the heartbeat of Innovate ITD, and your input will help us find the Best of the Best from the last 12 months. COVID-19 had a huge impact on the last half of the fiscal year, so it is only appropriate that we recognize those innovations that helped us all deal with the pandemic, move forward, and improvise in order to continue providing exemplary customer service to the public.

Innovate ITD continues to impress: the effort was a finalist in 2019 for Idaho Innovative Company of the Year, for the second time in four years - still the only public-service state agency to make that list. Innovate ITD was also the top entry from the U.S. in the recent Gartner international awards.

Every employee has the opportunity to engage in making their workplace a little bit safer, better and improve how we deliver services to citizens.

Voting for Best of the Best…

- Innovation stewards and the Innovative Business Practices team selected finalists for each of traditional seven Best of the Best categories from all the innovations employees submitted. We also added a COVID category this year:

- YOU get to decide this year's Best of the Best. Using the link, you can vote for your favorites through Sept. 18.


Please take the time to read a little bit about each innovation and vote for the top one in each category you think are the Best of the Best.

Thank you again for all your hard work to make ITD the best transportation department in the country and standing up to be counted in Innovate ITD!   

Below are links to Transporter stories of each of the finalists:  

SAFETY

Sponsoring State Hoops Tourney

Air Horns Save Eyes

Backup Buddy

MOBILITY

Avalanche-control Helicopter

Maps/Attachments Aid Truckers

CARES Act Portal

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Bulk Mailings to Dealers

Driver's Training Transfers Streamlined

Intelligent Transportation System Exemption

IDEAL WORKPLACE

Fallen Worker Decals/Stickers

Personnel Mapping Process

Color-coded Zones

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Broadcasting Board Meetings

Background Checks Streamlined

Office 365 Solutions

TIME SAVINGS

Electronic Renewal Notices

Mobile Inspector App

Standardized Bridge Detail Sheets for Repairs

COST SAVINGS

Small Airport Funding

Trailer VINs

VA payout for TTOs

COVID-19

Traffic Tracker

VPNs for Everyone

Employee Information Site

To see who won last year's winners, check out the 2019 Best of the Best video.

Published 09-08-20