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FTA today announced $1.94 million in competitive grant funding is available to support research to advance emerging technologies, strategies, and innovations that make transit easier and more accessible for transit riders across the country.
FTA’s Enhancing Mobility Innovation program supports research projects that will improve customer convenience, such as creating easier ways to pay for transit and enhancing transit schedules based on rider demand. Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), FTA will allocate funding to support rider-centered research projects in two categories:
- Innovations that focus on new service delivery models, creative financing, novel partnerships, and integrated payment solutions; and
- Software solutions that improve ways to provide demand-response public transportation service.
Eligible applicants include transit agencies; state or local departments of transportation; Indian tribes; private and nonprofit organizations; colleges and universities; and state and local governments, including metropolitan planning organizations. This is the second round of funding for enhancing mobility innovation. In August 2022, FTA selected nine projects in six states to support mobility and innovation. View the list of past projects.
Instructions for applying and eligibility information can be found on FTA’s website and on GRANTS.GOV (solicitation number FTA-2024-010-TRI-EMI). Complete proposals must be submitted electronically through the GRANTS.GOV “APPLY” function by August 30, 2024.
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