Solicitation Of Project Proposals For The Safety Research And Demonstration (SRD) Program
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Solicitation Of Project Proposals For The Safety Research And Demonstration (SRD) Program: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of $7,000,000 in Fiscal year (FY) 2016 research funds, authorized by the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), Public Law 114-94, to demonstrate and evaluate innovative technologies and safer designs to improve public transportation safety. FTA is seeking to fund cooperative agreements to engage in demonstration projects focused in the following two thematic areas: (a) collision avoidance and mitigation and (b) transit worker safety protection. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of $7 Million to demonstrate and evaluate innovative technologies and safer designs to improve public transportation safety. FTA will fund projects to engage in demonstration in two thematic areas: a) collision avoidance and mitigation and b) transit worker safety protection. The SRD projects are funded under FTA's Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment program authority. FTA intends to award multiple SRD demonstration projects under this announcement. Synopses and full announcement are posted on Grants.gov site as opportunity FTA-2016-007-TRI-SRD. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the Grants.gov website by midnight Eastern Time on October, 13, 2016.
| Federal Grant Title: | Solicitation Of Project Proposals For The Safety Research And Demonstration (SRD) Program |
| Federal Agency Name: | DOT Federal Transit Administration (DOT-FTA) |
| Grant Categories: | Transportation |
| Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | FTA-2016-007-TRI-SRD |
| Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
| CFDA Numbers: | 20.514 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
| Current Application Deadline: | October 14th, 2016 |
| Original Application Deadline: | October 14th, 2016 |
| Posted Date: | August 15th, 2016 |
| Creation Date: | August 15th, 2016 |
| Archive Date: | November 13th, 2016 |
| Total Program Funding: | $7,000,000 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $2,000,000 |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $750,000 |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 6 |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | Yes |
| Last Updated: | August 15th, 2016 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- An eligible lead applicant under this notice must be an existing FTA grant recipient and eligible project partners and sub-recipients under this program may include, but are not limited to, providers of public transportation; State and local governmental entities; departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government, including Federal laboratories; private or non-profit organizations; institutions of higher education; and technical and community colleges.
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
- FTA NOFO
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Roy Chen
Safety Research Program Manager
Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation (TRI)
Federal Transit Administration
(202) 366–0462
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