UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS PROGRAM
2017 GRANT SOLICITATION
For Regional Centers in Federal Regions 1, 2, 3
Eligibility to apply under this solicitation is limited only to a consortium of two or more eligible non-profit institutions of higher education located in one...
DOT 01-19Tuesday, February 5, 2019Contact: Nancy WilochkaTel.: (202) 366-5128
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces More than $60 Million in Funding for Leading Transportation Research
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of...
Dozens of cyclists have crashed on a slice of railroad tracks in Knoxville, Tennessee. Researchers at the Southeastern Transportation Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), developed a cost-effective solution.
According to a recent study published in the Journal of...
New data collection methods and computing techniques are powerful tools for improving the safety of the nation’s roads. Researchers and road agencies use those tools to predict accidents so they can focus efforts on designing highways and making improvements that minimize crashes.
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With research funding from the Traffic21 Institute’s Mobility21 University Transportation Center Program, Dr. Stephen Smith, Director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the Scalable Urban Traffic Control (Surtrac), the world’s first...
Documentation of Federal Funds under 23 U.S.C. § 504(b) and 505 as Matching Funds (11/28/2018)Question: Per the guidelines, Federal funds under 23 USC § 504(b) or 505 may be used as match. I reviewed all of our awards that flow down from the Federal Highway Administration...
In support of the United States Department of Transportation’s mission to recruit, educate, and train workers from underrepresented groups, the Mid-America Transportation Center (MATC), located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been working to close the gap for underrepresented groups...
Transportation technology has progressed by leaps and bounds in the past few years and more and more of the physical elements of surface transportation systems are now controlled via Internet connections. But with legitimate remote access comes malicious attempts to gain illegitimate...
The University of New Orleans (UNOTI) is conducting severalphases of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) research concerningthe US shale revolution and its effect on the energy sectorand various transportation systems. UNOTI initially assistedthe Port of New Orleans with LNG bunkering research. PhaseII...