“Attikes Diadromes S.A.” built and is taking care of the Athens highway Attiki Odos, which is 65km long. For a work well done in regards to servicing clients the company took the Toll Excellence Award 2009 from IBTTA organization in the administration category. The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association is a nongovernmental organization, which aims to encourage development and support of better, safer and ecological roads.
The program for awarding the best toll companies IBTTA Toll disseminates the goals of the toll industry in a creative and open way. The organization has created awards in five categories – Administration, client services, operations, social responsibility and technology.
The Greek company Attikes Diadromes won the administration award for applying the project “Monitoring success”. The project was a 24 hour control of the highway service levels and it also aimed to set some criteria for measuring the success in the applied policies and activities, which reflect the administrative politics of the company in regards to strategy, communication, finances, human resources, legal, risk management, government relations and inner organization structure. The project also aimed to follow some successful practices followed by the operational units of the company in all its activity fields. All awarded companies participated in a special ceremony during the Common Session of IBTTA’s 77 annual meeting in Chicago. Attikes Diadromes notes that this prestigious award for Attiki Odos is not also a significant recognition but also a commitment to strive for excellent work.