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SMART FY23 Stage 1 Webinar Slides
This document contains a slide deck on how to apply for an FY23 Stage 1 Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grant that was originally presented during a webinar in August of 2023.
U.S. DOT releases “Complementary Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and GPS Backup Technologies Demonstration” Report to Congress
The report details the results of field demonstrations of mature PNT technologies that could offer complementary service in the event of GPS disruptions
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) released the Complementary Positioning, Navigation,...
U.S. Department of Transportation Releases Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (the Department) today released the Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan (AVCP). The AVCP lays out the Department’s robust multimodal strategy to promote collaboration and transparency, modernize the regulatory environment, and prepare the...
Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence
Highly automated transportation systems hold extraordinary promise—and new kinds of risk. Assessing safety implications is complex, especially when systems intersect across air, land, and water. Rapidly evolving technology requires nimble evaluation and validation.
Established by Congress, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT’s) Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence (HASS COE) provides deep expertise and far-reaching insight as a central resource on automation for USDOT and its partners in academia and industry.
Starting a Project in the SDC - for Project Owners
Managing and sharing transportation research data, securely, is now easier than ever. The USDOT Secure Data Commons (SDC) is an access-controlled, cloud-based data environment that enables users to conduct analyses and develop new tools around emerging sources of transportation data. The SDC stores...U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Nearly $5 Million to 4 New University Transportation Centers
Centers will focus on 4 key research priorities with a total of nearly $5 million in grants
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced $4.925 million in grants to fund four new Tier 1 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) to advance...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Chao Releases Pathways to the Future of Transportation
WASHINGTON – One year after announcing the launch of the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today released Pathways to the Future of Transportation – a policy document that is intended to serve as a roadmap for...
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A Collaborative Transportation Research and Analytics Platform
The USDOT Secure Data Commons (SDC) can help speed up transportation data collection and analysis. See what the SDC can do for your project.
How Can the SDC Fulfill Your Needs?
Does the SDC meet your project needs?
Understand how the SDC can be used to accelerate your transportation research and analysis activities. Find out what the platform can do and how it can be utilized for your needs. Bring together transportation experts and data scientists from academia, industry, and different federal agencies to share common data sources and leverage common tools.
How can you get your data into the SDC?
Find out how to get your data and analysis into the SDC with minimal effort. Support your program’s mission by combining data from a diverse set of sources. Check out the list of current projects and datasets that are using the SDC.
What are the SDC capabilities?
Understand the capabilities offered by the SDC for your analysis. Use the data and tools available in the SDC to create meaningful insights that can be used to inform data-driven research and policy. Learn more and find out how your project team can access the SDC.
Support when you need it
Projects considering using the SDC have the ability to request and pay for customized support for their research programs above and beyond baseline technical support services. The customized support services provides customers with the necessary skills and tools to rapidly deliver analytical results in the SDC, implement best practices on their use of the SDC, and consistently achieve their analytical and mission goals using the SDC. The SDC offers services tailored to data providers' and researchers' goals and collaboration needs with the proper security controls.
Last updated September 2022
U.S. Department of Transportation Seeks Innovators for Inclusive Design Challenge
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today opened Stage I of the Inclusive Design Challenge, a national prize competition seeking design solutions to make future Automated Vehicles (AVs) more accessible to people with disabilities. Stage I of the Challenge will be open for...