This event was hosted on November 29th, 2023 where we celebrated and announced the winners of our 2023 Innovations Challenge. Watch a recording of this event and find a document of all the winners and their innovations.

This innovation is an attachable Geotab Tracker that helps improve the capability for tracking the location of snowplows, including whether each plow is up or down. This saves time and money versus the prior way of doing this. 

RANKING: Honorable Mention

This innovation is a attachable mirror for snow plows that improves safety and saves time during Winter Operations by helping plow operators see the plow-truck alignment better. 

RANKING: 2nd Place, People's Choice

This is a set of research and a statistical-based methodology to determine the right size for wildlife underpasses, solving a long-standing issue that there previously had been no standard methodology for doing this. Using this saved $1.7 million for the sizing of the underpass on the Vail Pass Auxiliary Lanes project. 

RANKING: People's Choice and Judges Panel Winner!!

This innovation solves the problem that sign sockets are usually distorted after impact hits, not allowing reuse without replacement. This tool allows the socket to be returned to round; that allows reuse of the socket, which saves time and money. 

RANKING: Honorable Mention

This innovation allows pothole data to be captured easily and efficiently in the field. The pothole layer tool provides a real-time look at highway conditions, which allows more efficient ways to plan repairs and/or bundle repairs with other CDOT projects and efforts. 

RANKING: 3rd Place, People's Choice (tied)

This innovation introduces a methodology that uses GeoHub, Offline Mapping, and ESRI's Field Maps Application to create a solution that is makes it easier for Maintenance and environment personnel to accurately record and find all the PCTCMs onsite. This facilitates their removal after construction is completed, which helps to ensure that PCTCMs are removed more quickly, and more efficiently, than was possible in the past.

PCTCM = Post Construction Temporary Control Measure Removal

RANKING: 3rd Place, People's Choice (tied)

This innovation is an online library that keeps track of, and makes it easier to find, the online tools that are on hand in the Division of Maintenance and Operations (DMO), which saves time and money. 

RANKING: 3rd Place, Judges Panel