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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
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.
Automate Legacy System so that Research Program Initiatives Continue
Integration with SDC Enable Development of Robust Data Products and Datasets
Learn and Prototype New Advanced Technologies in a Sandboxed Area
Connect SDC Cloud and DOT Research Cloud Platforms to Make Data Available to External Research Teams
Identify Technologies and Systems to Enable Intra-Project Analysis and Scale to National Level
USDOT's Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan.
The USDOT Secure Data Commons (SDC) can help speed up transportation data collection and analysis. See what the SDC can do for your project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has published a Request for Information (RFI) for the Inclusive Design Challenge, announced by Secretary Elaine L. Chao at the Access and Mobility for All Summit on October 29, 2019.
“The Department will award $5 million to aid the...