A multidisciplinary team at UDOT recently received national recognition for developing the Outdoor Advertising Control Map.

The Highway Beautification Act of 1965 gave state departments of transportation the responsibility of enforcing rules governing outdoor advertising, aka billboards. UDOT has developed an online mapping system that helps the general public and UDOT staff to efficiently identify the location of all highways where outdoor advertising is controlled, and where all permitted billboards are located along these controlled highways.

In April, UDOT became one of only three states to receive a national award from the National Alliance of Highway Beautification Agencies for developing this innovative mapping system.

The following statewide team collaborated to bring this award winning map to life:

DTS

• Monty King

Central ETS/GIS

• Becky Hjelm
• Frank Pisani

Central Right-of-Way

• Lyle McMillian
• Krissy Plett
• Rod McDaniels

Project Development Administration

• Randy Park
• Lisa Wilson

Region Permitting Operations

• Tommy Vigil
• Nacey Wilson
• Nazee Treweek
• Mark Velasquez
• Tony Lau
• Rux Rowland
• Rhett Arnell
• Dale Stapley
• Steve Kunzler
• Scott Snow

Central Attorney General’s Office

• Renee Spooner

Central Asset Management

• Stan Burns
• Kelli Bacon
• Abdul Wakil
• Peter Bigelow

Risk Management

• Brandi Trujillo

For more information about the the map check out Show Me a Sign.

Thank you to Rod McDaniels for his help writing this post.