Opportunity Information: Apply for MOBIL EQU RES
The Mobility Equity Research Initiative is a U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) funding opportunity focused on tackling the reality that many people in the United States have few practical transportation options beyond owning and driving a personal vehicle. The program starts from the premise that transportation access is not evenly distributed and that the way communities have been planned and funded over many decades has often limited mobility choices, especially for people living in low-income neighborhoods, minority communities, rural areas, and other underserved places. In many regions, those past decisions also created disproportionate environmental and public health burdens, while leaving communities without reliable, affordable, accessible, and low-carbon ways to reach jobs, education, healthcare, and everyday services.
This opportunity seeks research and technology development that can directly address these longstanding inequities by expanding real-world access to safe, affordable mobility. The emphasis is on combining modern enabling technologies such as telecommunications, data analytics, and clean energy with newer approaches in connectivity, service design, and business models. The underlying idea is that innovation is not just about new hardware or software; it is also about how services are structured, how information is shared, and how systems are designed so that people can get where they need to go when they need to go, including individuals who are often overlooked in mainstream transportation planning.
U.S. DOT is specifically looking for proposals that advance the Department's goal of improving accessibility and mobility for underserved communities, including people with disabilities, older adults, rural residents, and disadvantaged populations. A notable feature of the NOFO is its interest in projects that do not reinvent the wheel on data, but instead build on or complement existing datasets and tools, including resources available through the DOT equity data platform at https://equity-data.dot.gov/. In practice, that signals a preference for work that can plug into, strengthen, or extend current federal data systems and help produce actionable tools and results that agencies and practitioners can use.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the federal agency expects to be more involved than it would be under a standard grant, potentially through collaboration, guidance, or iterative project engagement. Eligible applicants are limited to institutions of higher education, both public/state-controlled universities and private universities. The opportunity is listed under CFDA number 20.948 and is administered by U.S. DOT's Research and Technology office (Agency code 69A355). The original application closing date is March 22, 2024. Funding is structured around a small number of relatively large awards: the program anticipates making about two awards, with an award ceiling of $2,970,000 per award.
Overall, the Mobility Equity Research Initiative is aimed at producing practical, research-backed advancements that help correct unequal mobility outcomes that have been built into the transportation system over time. The best-fit projects are likely to be those that pair strong technical research with an equity-driven understanding of who is being left out of current transportation options, why those gaps exist, and how new technologies, data-driven tools, and service innovations can measurably improve access to transportation in ways that are safe, affordable, and environmentally responsible.Apply for MOBIL EQU RES
- The 69A355 Research and Technology in the transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "MOBILITY EQUITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.948.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-01-05.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-03-22. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,970,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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