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ARPA-I Ideas Challenge Stage 1 Winners

See the table below for a complete list of ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge Stage 1 winners. Concept summaries, including narratives and slides, are now available in the table below for all 15 winners.

See the Stage 1 U.S. DOT Press Release

 

Concept Title

Concept Summaries

Team Members

Team Type

State

Agentic AI for Adaptive and Resilient Middle-Mile Freight Operations

Narrative

Slide

Lacy Greening

Individual

Arizona

CivicTwin: Physics-Grounded City-Scale Digital Twins from Real-World Data for Next-Generation Mobility System Simulation

Narrative

Slide

UCLA Mobility Lab

Academia

California

Energy in Motion: Atoms on Wheels - Safe, Monitored Transportation of Microreactors

Narrative

Slide

University of Utah

Academia

Utah

Generative AI Driven City-Scale Digital Twin for Virtual Testing and Benchmarking of Autonomous Vehicles

Narrative

Slide

University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), SaferDrive AI

Academia

Michigan

NavSentinel: A Resilient and Unspoofable GNSS Receiver

Narrative

Slide

TruNav, Llc

Private Entity

Illinois

Next-gen Smart Sensors Turn Every Train into an Inspector

Narrative

Slide

MetaRE Inc, Arup

Private Entity

New York

Pavement & Airfield Tactical Robotic On-site Locator (PATROL)

Narrative

Slide

Colorado State University

Academia

Colorado

PRISM: AI-Powered Dynamic Real-Time Mapping System for Safer AV Operation

Narrative

Slide

University of Tennessee Chattanooga, University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Innovation Institute

Academia

Tennessee

Providing a Signal Source of Truth for Safe and Aware Navigation

Narrative

Slide

Tip & Cue, Inc

Private Entity

New York

Quantum Cooperative Air Traffic Simulation (Q-CATS)

Narrative

Slide

CNA Corporation

Private Entity

Virginia

Rapid Flood Damage Mitigation and Resilience Through Modular Biocement Infrastructure

Narrative

Slide

ARCTOS Technology Solutions, Llc

Private Entity

Ohio

SemanticVector: AI-Powered Semantic Compression for 1000x More Data-Efficient Transportation Intelligence

Narrative

Slide

Sikai Chen, Xiaopeng Li

Individual

Wisconsin

The Gravity of Infrastructure

Narrative

Slide

Leidos

Private Entity

Virginia

TransportationBench: Accelerating Responsible AI Adoption and Transformation through Benchmarking

Narrative

Slide

Numobility, Texas Transportation Institute

Private Entity

Georgia

Twin-Guided Robotic Pavement Overlays (T-GRO): Safer, Faster, Cleaner Resurfacing

Narrative

Slide

Yang Lu

Individual

Idaho