As a result of the FAST Act, US DOT has
launched an Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies
Deployment (ATCMTD) initiative. It’s funded at about $60 million a year for the
life of the FAST Act. This week, FHWA issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
inviting eligible entities to submit applications for its first round of model
technology deployment sites.
Planning agencies, local governments, and
others are encouraged to apply, and will see that many of the ideas in this NOFO
may reflect things you have in the works, or deployments you’ve been wishing to
explore.
The full NOFO can be found at https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/03/29/2016-07051/notice-of-funding-opportunity-for-the-advanced-transportation-and-congestion-management-technologies#h-12.
Here are a few key facts:
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This year's applications are due June 3, 2016.
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Grants are up to $12 million, and require a 50 percent
non-federal share.
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Eligible applicants are states, local governments, transit
agencies, MPOs, multi-agency consortia, and consortia of research/academic
institutions.
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The purpose of these grants is "to develop model deployment
sites for large scale installation and operation of advanced transportation
technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and
infrastructure return on investment."
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There's an illustrative list of things for which these grants
could be used:
o Advanced traveler
information systems;
o Advanced transportation
management technologies;
o Infrastructure
maintenance, monitoring, and condition assessment;
o Advanced public
transportation systems;
o Transportation system
performance data collection, analysis, and dissemination systems;
o Advanced safety
systems, including vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure
communications, technologies associated with autonomous vehicles, and other
collision avoidance technologies, including systems using cellular technology;
o Integration of
intelligent transportation systems with the Smart Grid and other energy
distribution and charging systems;
o Electronic pricing and
payment systems; or
o Advanced mobility and
access technologies, such as dynamic ridesharing and information systems
to support human services for elderly and disabled individuals.
Interested in these possibilities? Read the notice. If you have
questions about the solicitation, contact Robert Arnold of FHWA’ Office of
Transportation Management (Robert.arnold@dot.gov;
202-366-1285) or Egan Smith of the DOT ITS Joint Program Office (egan.smith@dot.gov; 202-366-9224).
The Community Transportation Association is not an official partner in this
initiative, but we have some experience in some of these topics. You’re welcome
to reach out to me to brainstorm and refine possible ideas or strategies. I’m
at Zeilinger@ctaa.org (or chris.zeilinger@gmail.com, if the
CTAA address rejects you), or 202-250-4108.
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