2027 Entry Requirements
We've simplified the entry process following feedback from the 2026 Awards.
The entry form contains five short questions asking for answers with a combined maximum of 900 words.
Entrants should answer the category-specific points within these five answers; there is no additional essay for each category. Contact details, entry title, a short public summary and evidence labels are separate administrative fields and are not scored or counted in the word limit.
Supporting evidence should be submitted that includes evidence of carbon savings.
People and Teams questions
1. What has the nominee done?
Identify the person or team, their role and the achievement. Explain the nominee's own responsibilities and actions.
Maximum 200 words.
2. What difference has their contribution made?
Evidence their specific contribution to transport carbon reduction or a credible pathway to it. Explain how their actions connect to the result.
Maximum 200 words.
3. What initiative or leadership have they shown?
Give examples of judgement, initiative, leadership or overcoming barriers, in the context of their role and resources. Maximum 150 words.
4. How have they shared learning or developed others?
Explain how their practice has helped colleagues or partners, or could be used elsewhere. For young professionals, include learning applied in practice. Maximum 150 words.
5. How have they worked with others to deliver?
Explain teamwork, collaboration and delivery. Distinguish the nominee's contribution from the wider project or organisation. Maximum 200 words.
Projects and Delivery questions
1. What did you do?
Describe the challenge, the project or initiative and what was delivered. Include location, dates and delivery stage.
Maximum 200 words.
2. What difference has it made?
Set out results and the transport carbon benefit. Give the baseline, measurement method and supporting numbers where possible. Distinguish achieved and forecast results. Maximum 200 words.
3. What makes it different?
Explain the innovation or ambition and any particularly difficult challenge addressed. Maximum 150 words.
4. Could others do this?
Explain lessons, requirements and how the approach could be replicated, adapted or scaled. Maximum 150 words.
5. Who made it happen?
Describe leadership, teamwork, partnerships and collaboration, and how these enabled delivery. Maximum 200 words.
Each submission is reviewed and scored by multiple judges to ensure a balanced and impartial outcome.
We are proud to be bringing together a group of individuals who reflect the breadth and depth of the decarbonising transport efforts.
General eligibility and entry rules
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Entries are welcome from public, private, academic, third-sector and community organisations, and from partnerships. Individual and team nominations follow the relevant People and Teams criteria.
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The awards are open to entries from the UK and Ireland only.
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Completed work and work in progress are eligible. Research, pilots, prototypes and adopted plans can qualify where the category allows them and the entry demonstrates a credible transport carbon pathway.
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An unsupported idea or general corporate ambition is insufficient.
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Previous entrants and winners may enter materially new work or significant new outcomes. Explain what has changed; do not resubmit an unchanged entry.
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Submit each project in one category only. Organisations may enter several genuinely distinct projects. Rewording an entry, changing its title or submitting through another partner does not make the same project a separate entry.
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A person or team nomination assesses that nominee's contribution and may refer to a project entered separately. It must be a distinct nomination, not a duplicate project entry. Enter an individual in either Young Professional or Champion, and a team in its team category only.
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When duplicate project entries are identified, the organisers will retain one appropriate category for assessment and reject the duplicates. They will contact the entrant to establish the best fit where practicable; the same project will be scored once.
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Entrants are responsible for the accuracy of claims, permission to submit partner information and consent from any person nominated. Clearly identify confidential material.
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Entry is free. By submitting an entry, you agree that, if your nomination is selected as a finalist, the nominee or a nominated representative will attend the awards ceremony at the Royal Lancaster London on 19 March 2027. Ceremony attendance is booked separately; ticket prices and arrangements are published on this website. Sponsorship, advertising or ticket and table purchases have no bearing on judging.
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Entries and factual claims must be complete at the closing date. Organisers may request clarification or correct an administrative error, but this does not permit new work, additional achievements or a rewritten submission after the deadline.
Supporting evidence
Provide up to three supporting items in total, using files, links or a mixture of both. Supporting files may be PDF, DOCX, JPG or PNG, with a combined upload limit of 15 MB.
Use concise reports, results, calculations, evaluation extracts or testimonials that substantiate the five answers. Identify the relevant page, figure or section for each item.
Supporting material is evidence, not a second entry narrative; it must not be used to bypass the word limits. Links should be accessible without a paid subscription or personal login and remain available throughout judging. Photographs are optional at entry* and are not scored. Publicity images can be requested from finalists later.
*Full-length head-to-toe portraits of candidates entering the individual people awards should be prepared, as these will be requested.
Carbon evidence guidance
Provide quantified carbon savings where available, ideally in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). State the comparison baseline, dates, scope and source or method. Distinguish annual savings from cumulative savings and achieved results from modelled or forecast benefits. Explain assumptions, attribution and important limitations.
Where relevant, account for energy use, embodied carbon, displaced journeys, lifecycle effects and double counting. Where quantified savings are not yet available, provide relevant outcome evidence and explain the pathway to carbon reduction and how it is being or will be measured.
A credible early-stage entry is eligible; forecasts are not treated as achieved savings. Judges consider the significance of the result in context, including scale, resources and delivery stage. Larger organisations or larger absolute figures do not automatically score better.
