Innovation
Legacy ID
2346
Innovation Agenda
Innovation Agenda
From the Wright Brothers to the moon landing, America has always pushed the boundaries of what’s possible with new technology. The golden age of transportation is paved over generations of American ingenuity pioneering our global future. The Department of Transportation will be chronicling our latest progress under President Donald Trump’s historic innovation agenda.
Autonomous Vehicles
U.S. DOT Awards $2.4 Million to 12 Small Businesses for the Complete Streets Artificial Intelligence Initiative
Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it intends to award a total of $2.4 million in contracts to twelve (12) American small businesses from across the country to leverage advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve transportation. With funding...Nontraditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council Annual Report: December 2023
This annual report for calendar year 2022 provides an overview of the activities of the Nontraditional and Emerging Transportation Technologies (NETT) Council during its first calendar year of reestablishment, fulfilling the requirement outlined in 49 U.S.C. § 313(h).Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure (ARPA-I)
America needs transportation technologies that decrease long term costs, increase system safety, enhance infrastructure resilience, and make America more globally competitive. Delivering that vision will require bold new investments in advanced and emerging materials, structures, components, systems, and capabilities – both physical and digital – that have the potential to radically transform our transportation infrastructure.
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Automate Legacy System so that Research Program Initiatives Continue
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Integration with SDC Enable Development of Robust Data Products and Datasets
Learn, Pilot & Assess New Technologies
Learn and Prototype New Advanced Technologies in a Sandboxed Area
Data Sharing Between Cloud Programs
Connect SDC Cloud and DOT Research Cloud Platforms to Make Data Available to External Research Teams
Cross Project Analysis
Identify Technologies and Systems to Enable Intra-Project Analysis and Scale to National Level
Last updated September 2022
USDOT's Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan
USDOT's Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan.
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...Secure Data Commons - Home
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The USDOT Secure Data Commons (SDC) can help speed up transportation data collection and analysis. See what the SDC can do for your project.
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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.
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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