The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $6,000,000 of fiscal year (FY) 2021 funds under the Public Transportation Innovation Program to serve as the Program Lead for the Mobility, Access, & Transportation Insecurity: Creating Links to Opportunity Demonstration Research Program (‘‘Program’’).
Donor Name: Department of Transportation (DOT)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/11/2022
Size of the Grant: $6 million
Details:
The Transportation Insecurity Research Program will establish a research demonstration program to amplify public transportation with an emphasis to explore interventions to address transportation insecurity and evaluate outcomes and impacts upon individuals and communities. Transportation insecurity is the condition in which people are unable to regularly and reliably satisfy the travel necessary to meet the needs of daily life. This Program will develop and implement demonstrations that augment public transportation to mitigate transportation insecurity, and subsequently evaluate outcomes and effectiveness. This Program will also document the impacts and potential strategies to address transportation insecurity.
Funding Information
This Notice makes available $6 million to award one competitively selected Program Lead.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants under this Notice include the following:
- Departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government, including Federal laboratories
- Institutions of higher education including research universities, particularly those with Minority
- Serving Institution status
- Non-profit organizations
- For-profit organizations
- Technical and community colleges
- Applicants must demonstrate experience conducting comprehensive research demonstrations, including those focused on civic research, and data- and technology-oriented research and innovation in the areas of social services, mobility options, urban spaces, public health, public safety, and related areas.
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
