Awards
As a company, we set ourselves high standards and strive towards providing superior value and service to our customers. Awards, prizes and accolades provide an insight into what various third party organizations, including special interest groups, industry bodies and associations regard as important and how they rate our achievements.
The broad spectrum of awards listed below details our recognized areas of excellence ranging from the environment and customer relations to innovation and reliability. These awards demonstrate how well we are responding to economical and environmental challenges while remaining at the forefront of innovation and technology.
| Name of Award | Description | Year |
| OVERALL | ||
| Diamond in Business Award - Katowice, Poland | Bombardier's joint venture in Katowice, Bombardier Transportation ZWUS was recognised with the award for ongoing leadership position in the Polish rail signalling market. | 2009 |
| Frost & Sullivan Global Rail Company of the Year Award | The award was presented for demonstrating unparalleled excellence within the industry, outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. | 2008 |
| CCBC Best Global Business Award | The award was presented by the Canada China Business Council (CCBC) in recognition of: • Success, vision, and entrepreneurship in entering into the Chinese market over the past years • Notable growth in the company’s overall business • Innovation to promote brand awareness in new markets | 2008 |
| Contributor of the Year for China | This prize was awarded by the World Railway Development and Research Society and "World Railway" magazine to Mr. Jianwei Zhang (Chief Country Representative China). He was the sole award receiver for making exceptional contributions to building prospects in the industry. | 2008 |
| Award of Special Contribution to China’s Rail Transit Equipment Localization | Bombardier won the 2008 award for Special Contribution to China’s Localization of Rail Transit Equipment jointly organized by two media organizations "People’s Railway" and "Rail Transit" in addition to China Rail Transit Promotion Alliance. | 2008 |
| Top 100 Fast Company Prize | The award was presented by "Business Watch" magazine to the company for its excellence in taking fast action to adapt to market changes and gain market share. | 2008 |
| ENVIRONMENT | ||
| European Mobility Exhibition Award | Bombardier's hybrid AGC won an award in Paris in the Energy/Environment category at the European Mobility Exhibition. | 2008 |
| Réseau Écolectrique - Québec, Canada | Received recognition and membership into the "Réseau Écolectrique" (Ecolectric Network) by Hydro Québec (a provincial government energy generation and management company). | 2008 |
| HEALTH & SAFETY | ||
| Safety at Work Prize - Katowice, Poland | Bombardier's joint venture in Katowice, BT ZWUS was awarded first prize in a national competition for employers promoting safety of work. | 2008 |
| SUVA Prize (Swiss Accident Prevention Association) | Recognized for the fact that the Villeneuve production site had not registered any accidents for 450 consecutive days. | 2008 |
| Gold Health and Safety Award | Crewe (UK) site received Gold Health and Safety Award. | 2008 |
| Loss Prevention Award | Las Vegas Monorail Company earned exemplary marks from property insurer, FM Global for new loss-prevention strategies in 2007. | 2008 |
| Sunshine State Recognition Award - Orlando, Florida | Efforts recognized for implementing and maintaining effective health and safety procedures and programs. | 2007 |
| GO Transit Service Centre - Toronto, Canada | Bombardier’s remarkable safety record for the past ten years was recognized by WSIB Chairman (Ontario). | 2007 |
| INNOVATION | ||
| Award for Engineering at the Railway Innovation Awards - London, United Kingdom | Bombardier Transportation was presented with the award for Engineering at the Railway Innovation Awards 2009. This accolade was received for Bombardier’s innovative and groundbreaking service capability, BOMBARDIER ORBITA. | 2009 |
| Silver Innovation Award for PRIMOVE - Utrecht, Netherlands | BOMBARDIER PRIMOVE won the “Silver” Innovation Award at RailTech Europe 2009 (NL-Utrecht), the 7th international conference and exhibition on rail technology. Our PRIMOVE technology was praised for enabling catenary-free and contactless operation for trams. | 2009 |
| Public Transport Innovation Award for MITRAC Energy Saver - Freiburg, Germany | The local transport company Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH was awarded the innovation prize at the 4th Public Transport Innovation Congress for the deployment of the MITRAC Energy Saver, developed by Bombardier Transportation. | 2009 |
| Special Innovation Award 2008 | Special Innovation Award 2008 - Energy and Environment, presented by "Privatbahn Magazin" for the ECO4 initiative. | 2008 |
| Top Ten Leaders of Technology Innovation - China's Transportation Industry Prize | The prize was jointly awarded by two media organizations "People’s Railway" and "Rail Transit" as well as China Rail Transit Promotion Alliance to Mr. Jianwei Zhang (Chief Country Representative China). It was given to him for his influential management of people in China's transportation industry who demonstrated outstanding leadership and unparalleled technological innovation in the industry. | 2008 |
| CUSTOMER RELATIONS | ||
| Customer Care Award - New York, USA | Systems employees at the AirTrain JFK Service Delivery Center in New York were presented with the John F. Kennedy International Airport’s 2007 Customer Care award for Best Performance by a Port Authority Contractor. Bombardier was recognized for its "hard work and commitment in achieving high ratings" during its annual quality assurance inspections. This is the second year that Bombardier won this award for its efforts in maintaining the cleanliness and condition of the AirTrain system. | 2007 |
| RELIABILITY | ||
| EC Quality Certification UNE-EN 13816 - Madrid, Spain | Bombardier Transportation's Automated People Mover (APM) connecting Terminal 4 at the Madrid-Barajas airport to its satellite building was awarded the EC Quality Certification UNE-EN 13816 for passenger transportation services by AENOR, the Spanish Association of Standardization and Certification. | |
| Golden and Silver Spanner Awards - United Kingdom | Awarded seven out of 10 Golden and Silver Spanners at the Modern Railways UK Reliability Awards for the reliability of train fleets. | 2008 |
| TECHNOLOGY | ||
| WorldMediaFestival 2008 - Hamburg, Germany | The film The Climate is Right for Trains received an intermedia-globe Silver Award for "successful modern media communication solutions” in the Public Relations category. | 2008 |
| 2008 Grafika Prize | Designed by Mosaic Design, Bombardier’s The Climate is Right for Trains campaign won a 2008 Grafika prize, in the Corporate Web site category. The Grafika prizes are awarded every year by "Infopresse" to the best productions in graphical design in Quebec, Canada. | 2008 |
| Security Innovation of the Year Award | The SEKURFLO transit security solution won the prestigious award for Security Innovation of the Year at the recent Railway Interiors Innovation and Excellence Awards 2008 ceremony held in The Netherlands. | 2008 |
| Boomerang Award | Boomerang Web Award received in the category "B2B", for the web site The Climate is Right for Trains. | 2007 |
| COMMUNICATION | ||
| APTA 30th Annual AdWheel Award | Bombardier Transportation was presented with the First Place Award in the category, 'Video Presentation' for the BOMBARDIER ECO4 video at the 30th Annual AdWheel Awards competition of APTA. | 2009 |
| Harvey Communication Measurement Award | The award was presented in recognition of advertising which achieved the highest readership response from readers of the "Congressional Quarterly Today". The advertisement that featured in an April edition of this publication was BOMBARDIER ECO4 and the new BOMBARDIER FLEXITY 2 tram. | 2009 |
| Exhibition Marketing Award of the International Association of Public Transportation (UITP) - Vienna, Austria | Bombardier Transportation received the 2009 Exhibition Marketing Award of the International Association of Public Transportation (UITP). The award was presented to Bombardier during the opening ceremony of the 58th UITP World Congress and Exhibition in recognition of its comprehensive, highly professional and diversified marketing strategy. | 2009 |
| Intermedia-globe Silver Award - Hamburg, Germany | Bombardier Transportation received the Intermedia-globe Silver Award in the "Public Relations: Environment-Conservation-Recylcling" category at the WorldMediaFestival. As one of the world's highest honours in audiovisual competition, the BOMBARDIER ECO4 video featuring Bombardier's new formula for Total Train Performance and ecoactive technologies gained recognition. | 2009 |
| Cinerail International Film Festival Award | The Climate is Right for Trains video was also shortlisted under the Corporate Films and Advertising section and shown at Cinerail in Paris. | 2008 |
| CUTA National Transit Corporate Recognition Award | The Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) presented Bombardier with a National Transit Corporate Recognition award in the Innovation category for The Climate is Right for Trains communications campaign. | 2008 |
| APTA AdWheel Awards | The APTA AdWheel awards recognised excellence in public transportation marketing and communications for the Streetcar Redefined campaign. | 2008 |
| ETHICS | ||
| Pittsburgh Business Ethics Award | Pittsburgh Business Ethics award received from the University of Pittsburgh’s David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership and the Society for Financial Service Providers’ Pittsburgh chapter. | 2008 |
| DESIGN | ||
| Universal Design Consumer Favourite 09 Award - Hannover, Germany | The FLEXITY Swift light rail vehicle for the Frankfurt Transport Authority (VerkehrsGesellschaft Frankfurt am Main, VGF) won the Universal Design Consumer Favourite 09 award in the category Mobility. | 2009 |
| Design at Work Award - Brussels, Belgium | The FLEXITY Outlook trams for the Brussels' transport company STIB (Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles) won Design at Work award in the category Mobility. | 2008 |
| Rolling Stock Excellence of the Year - United Kingdom | Bombardier and First Great Western given Rolling Stock Excellence of the Year accolade at the10th HSBC Rail Business Awards for the refurbishment of a fleet of high-speed trains. | 2008 |
| Collaborative Engineered Design Award - Heathrow, United Kingdom | The award for Collaborative Engineered Design was presented to the British Airport Authority, in partnership with Bombardier and Balfour Beatty for the Heathrow T-5 project, more specifically, the APM Track Transit System. | 2008 |
| 2007 Good Design Award - Netherlands | The Netherlands Railways Sprinter LighTTrain formed by Bombardier and Siemens received a 2007 Good Design award in the category Transportation. | 2007 |
| Henry van de Velde Label 2007 - Brussels, Belgium | Design Flanders awarded a Henry van de Velde Label 2007 to Bombardier’s FLEXITY Outlook tram of the Brussels transport company STIB. | 2007 |
| MANUFACTURING | ||
| Special Recognition Award for BOS | Bombardier Operations System won an accolade for excellence in manufacturing at the European Strategic Manufacturing Awards. | 2008 |
| COMMERCE | ||
| Best Global Project to Sign Award - South Africa | The award was given to the Gautrain project for its unique engineering and socio-economic developmental requirements and in recognition of the team of lawyers who were able to put the deal together. | 2008 |
| 2007 International Bridge Award for Commerce - Pittsburgh, USA | The award recognized successful efforts in building bridges between the Pittsburgh region and other parts of the world. Bombardier Transportation was selected for recognition in the category of corporations with sales revenues between $100 million and $1 billion USD. | 2007 |
