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Los siguientes recursos proporcionan información general sobre cómo solicitar subvenciones federales y comprender algunos de los requisitos clave.
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Thirty-two years ago, on March 12th, 1990, a thousand activists from across the country descended on Washington, D.C. to protest their government’s failure, as of then, to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.
When they arrived at the National Mall, dozens of them cast aside...
The Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act (Pub. L. No. 115-99) required the establishment of a Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking (ACHT) to make recommendations on actions the Department can take to help combat human trafficking, and to develop...
A research program has identified internal DOT Researchers and external Partners (academia and other federal agencies) to share and analyze data from various grantees. SDC services helped support Researchers to conduct multiple data set analysis and develop general purpose code for data access across multiple projects. Research Programs are enabled to focus on gaining strategic value and policy insights, as well increase ROI future large DOT grant deployments.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) program has a need to identify congestion hotpots, flood impacts, and severe storm impacts to support the Emergency Planning Transportation Data Initiative and national highway traffic cluster analysis (Waze “Hot Spot” Analysis). BTS utilized the Secure Data Commons (SDC) to build proofs-of-concept of analytical weather-transportation impacts.
The Emergency Planning Transportation Data Initiative is supported by a partnership between BTS and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). SDC provided support to Researchers conducting data integration on severe weather with the national transportation system, historical analysis and forecasting components, and post-op evaluation of dataset limitations/opportunities. This initiative was able to make discoveries useful for public safety and emergency evacuation preparedness at the multi-state scale.
The Waze “Hot Spot” Analysis builds upon research Volpe has already conducted for the Safety Data Initiative. It includes the research evaluation of SDC Waze data, developing a proof of concept on a subset of the nation’s highway system data, and an experiment on predictive analysis on traffic forecasts. BTS Researchers were able work on machine learning and cluster analysis to evaluate options for creating a daily dashboard of “hot spots” of operational characteristics on the nation’s highway system: Congestion/traffic jam locations, Bottleneck sites, and Weather-related Road closures.
This document provides instructions on how to use the Underserved Communities Tool for a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant application.