By Olivia Truban

IPMI is the world's largest organization of parking, transportation, and mobility professionals in the world. The IPMI Awards of Excellence program recognizes outstanding parking, mobility and transportation projects and programs that demonstrate creativity, innovation, sustainability and customer experience.

In addition to the Organization of the Year honor, VCU Parking & Transportation earned the Apex Award for Marketing and Communications for its “We’re Driving Forward with LPR!” campaign, which educated parkers about VCU’s new license plate recognition system, and Josh Stone, executive director of the department, received the Emerging Leader of the Year award.

“These awards represent the advancements our parking and transportation operation has made over the course of the past half a decade,” Stone said. “These awards demonstrate our arrival as an industry leader. Other institutions look to us for guidance and advice from top to bottom on how an organization should run. I couldn’t be prouder of us.”

Shawn D. Conrad, CEO of IPMI, said that the winners of the 2025 Awards of Excellence “set a new standard for excellence in our industry. Their dedication to innovation, efficiency, and a customer-focused experience highlights the best of parking and mobility today.”