Enhancing Mobility Innovation - FY 2024
| Agency: | U.S. Department of Transportation |
|---|---|
| CFDA: | 20.530 |
| Federal FON: | FTA-2024-010-TRI-EMI |
| Office: | Federal Transit Administration (FTA) |
| Multipart Grant: | No |
| Next Due: | 08/30/2024 (Application) |
|---|---|
| Solicitation Date: | 07/01/2024 |
| Match Required: | Yes |
| Match Type: | Cash/In-Kind |
| Actual Funds: | $1,936,000 (Confirmed) |
| Award Range: | $400,000 (Min) |
Summary:
The purpose of this program is to enhance mobility innovations for transit by supporting projects that advance emerging technologies, strategies, and innovations in traveler-centered mobility. Projects in the following areas will be supported:
- Concepts development and/or demonstration projects: projects that improve mobility and enhance the rider experience, with a focus on innovative service delivery models, creative financing, novel partnerships, and integrated payment solutions; activities may include all activities that advance promising technologies, practices, and strategies and accelerate
innovations in mobility for transit, including:- Planning
- Acquiring essential equipment or services
- Project implementation
- Evaluating project results
- Software development projects: projects that facilitate the provision of demand-response public transportation services that dispatch public transportation fleet vehicles through riders' mobile devices or other advanced means; activities may include:
- Establishing user needs
- Defining system requirements
- Development, validation, and verification of the software, modeling, and simulation
- Pilot implementation with a software solution that can be demonstrated to the funding agency
The funding agency seeks projects that:
- Are focused on the next iteration of the most promising technologies, practices, and strategies to accelerate innovations in mobility for public transportation
- Produce novel, bold, and yet realistic concepts to accelerate the transformation of integrated mobility and public transportation, influence traveler behavior, and produce meaningful and lasting impacts on climate and equity
Support will be provided for projects that develop and deploy novel, innovative, or transformative mobility technologies and solutions and advance the state of the practice. Integrated mobility projects that embrace a holistic view of multimodal mobility that centers and supports public transportation are welcomed.
Software developed should be interoperable, adaptable, secure, and able to be seamlessly integrated into other transportation and transit management systems. In addition, the project team should consider how the development effort could support the development or use of open standards, specifications, or protocols. The funding agency will evaluate the potential for software developed to be shared for use by public transportation agencies.
Projects that enhance the current state of mobility innovation research or build upon existing successful projects and partnership efforts, including previously awarded projects through this program, will be supported. Examples of project research areas include:
- Novel data approaches for improved service delivery
- Data-driven tools to predict and influence traveler behavior
- Payment systems and solutions that enhance integrated mobility management and interoperability across a variety of modes
- Projects that encourage climate-smart choices and/or provide personalized mobility options to travelers
- Mobility payment integration with dynamic pricing strategies
- Novel approaches for providing more effective transportation and mobility options in underserved communities
Additionally, the funding agency intends to advance innovations that are of national significance and can provide benefit to transit agencies, cities, and communities across the country. As such, project teams should consider how to structure development efforts to ensure the resulting research outputs are broadly relevant and can lead to adoption or use by other transit agencies or transportation providers.
An optional webinar is scheduled for this program. Refer to the Application section for additional information.
Last Updated: August 15, 2024
Eligibility Notes:
Eligible applicants are:
- Providers of public transportation, including public transportation agencies, state or local government departments of transportation (DOTs), and federally recognized Indian tribes
- Private for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including shared-use mobility providers, private operators of transportation services, technology system suppliers and integrators, bus or vehicle manufacturers or suppliers, software and technology developers, financial institutions, consultants, research consortia, and industry organizations
- State, city, or local government entities, including multijurisdictional partnerships and organizations, such as metropolitan planning organizations
- Institutions of higher education, including large research universities, particularly those with minority-serving institution status
Applicants are encouraged to identify in the application one or more project partners with a substantial interest and involvement in the project to participate in the implementation of the project.
Applicants that are not providers of public transportation are encouraged to identify in the application at least one provider of public transportation as a project partner.
Demonstrated experience by the applicant or project partners in successfully implementing a mobility innovation development and demonstration project will be considered during the application evaluation process.
Applicants that choose to apply for both topical areas described in the Summary section must submit separate applications for individual consideration.
Previous award recipients include:
- City of Richmond (CA)
- University of Maryland - College Park (MD)
- Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (NY)
- NEORide (OH)
- MobilityData (OR)
Refer to the Award file for additional information regarding previous award recipients.
Eligible Applicants:
Local GovernmentAcademic Institutions
Consortia
Native American Tribe
Non Profits
Private Sector
State Government
Application Notes:
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 30, 2024.
Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov. Mailed, faxed, or emailed applications will not be accepted.
Applications must include:
- SF 424
- Supplemental form:
- Applicant information
- Project information
- Evaluation criteria
- Additional considerations
- Project overview (1 page)
- Attachments (as applicable):
- Letters of support
- Project budget
- Visual aids
- Planning document excerpts
- Project narratives
The project overview must be submitted in .pdf, Microsoft Word, or a compatible file format.
An optional webinar is scheduled for this program as follows:
August 1, 2024
3:00 p.m. ET
Registration: usdot.zoomgov.com
The following are required in order to submit an application:
- Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
- SAM (System for Award Management) registration
Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam.
Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Demonstration of innovation
- Demonstration of benefits
- Project team and partnerships
- Local financial commitment
- Project implementation strategy
- Technical, legal, and financial capacity
Refer to the NOFA, ProjectOverviewTemplate, and SupplementalForm files for additional application information.
| Match Required: | Yes |
|---|---|
| Match Type: | Cash/In-Kind |
| Actual Funds: | $1,936,000 (Confirmed) |
| Award Range: | $400,000 (Min) |
|---|
Match Notes:
Applicants must provide at least 20 percent of the project costs via nonfederal cash and/or in-kind contributions.
Applicants are encouraged to identify scaled funding options in case insufficient funding is available to fund a project at the full requested amount, as detailed on page 5 of the NOFA file.
Funding Notes:
A total of $1,936,000 is available to support an anticipated two to four cooperative agreements of at least $400,000 through this program. The total amount of program funding will be divided as follows:
- $968,000 is available for concepts development and/or demonstration projects
- $968,000 is available for software development projects
Pre-award authority is subject to funding agency approval and is only available for costs incurred after the announcement of awarded projects.
For FY 2021, a total of $4,050,251 was distributed via nine awards ranging from $250,000 to $800,000 through this program. Refer to the Award file for details.
Contacts:
Natalie Covill-Fontaine
(202) 366-7564
n.covillfontaine@dot.gov
Agency Address
Federal Transit Administration
East Building
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20590
Contact Notes:
Questions should be directed to Natalie Covill-Fontaine.
Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.
The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.
Files:
Other Pre-Award File: US17684_ProjectOverviewTemplate_FY2024.docx (20.9 Kb)Other Pre-Award File: US17684_SupplementalForm_FY2024.pdf (202.1 Kb)
NOFA File: US17684_NOFA_FY2024.pdf (3.3 Mb)
Award File: US17684_Award_FY2024.pdf (163.0 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US17684_Webinar_FY2024.pdf (34.7 Kb)
Other Pre-Award File: US17684_WebinarPresentation&Transcript_FY2024.zip (3.1 Mb)
Other Pre-Award File: US17684_FAQ_FY2024.pdf (153.1 Kb)
File Notes:
The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The SupplementalForm file contains a required form for submission. The ProjectOverviewTemplate file contains a template for the required project overview. The Webinar file contains information regarding a webinar scheduled for this program. The WebinarPresentation&Transcript folder contains the presentation slides and a transcript of the webinar held for this program. The FAQ file contains a list of answers to frequently asked questions regarding this program. The Award file contains information on previous award recipients.
August 16, 2024
Presentation slides and a transcript of the webinar held for this program have been released and attached as the WebinarPresentation&Transcript folder. In addition, a list of answers to frequently asked questions regarding this program has been released and attached as the FAQ file.
July 16, 2024
Information regarding a webinar scheduled for this program has been released and attached as the Webinar file. The Application section has been updated accordingly.
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