New York State Department of Transportation Earns Top Honors in Transportation Research Board’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Video Competition. Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that a video produced by the New York State Department of Transportation touting the Interstate 81 Viaduct Project’s Local Hire Initiative has been honored by the Transportation Research Board’s Special Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). The video, featuring testimonials from locally hired workers living near this transformative project in Central New York, was named Outstanding Video in the State DOT category for TRB’s DEI Video Competition. In winning the award, NYSDOT was commended by the special committee for its efforts to build a robust workforce and create new job opportunities for those living in the Syracuse community. The video is to be showcased to transportation leaders from across the world at TRB’s annual meeting in January.