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693JJ923R000085: Developing Best Practices and Training for Driver Education

Closed Closed April 5, 2023 Opportunity 693JJ923R000085 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: State Process for Informing Consumers of Recalls Program (NHTSA-693JJ927R000007-FY27). Status: Closes February 4, 2027 (89 days left). It is in our archive of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1.8 million
• Total funding$1.8 million
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

• Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTSThis cooperative agreement is available for full and open competition, all potential applicants are eligible to apply.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Discretionary Safety Grants and Cooperative Agreements awards averaged $1.8 million; this notice allows up to $1.8 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (59% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE The purpose and objective of this Umbrella Cooperative Agreement (CA or Agreement) is to conduct research on, evaluations of, and identification of best practices related to driver education for novice drivers and to train state driver licensing authorities how to adopt such practices. Drivers between the ages of 15 to 20 years have the highest involvement in fatal crashes of any age group. In addition, there is an increasing proportion of young people over the age of 18 years delaying licensure. If an individual delays obtaining a drivers license, the individual may no longer be subject to a State’s graduated licensing procedures resulting in no classroom or behind-the-wheel training/instruction before a license is issued (Tefft et al, 2014). New traffic safety countermeasures are required to address these trends. NHTSA seeks innovative and creative projects that will focus on: · Identifying and developing innovative driver education, licensing, or training demonstration practices and countermeasures. · Developing education and training to driver licensing authorities on best practices or countermeasures. · Conduct research of issues or practices related to driver education, licensing, training, and countermeasures. The Department is committed to advancing safe, efficient transportation, including in the Developing Best Practices and Training for Driver Education project. The National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS), issued January 27, 2022, commits the Department to respond to the current crisis in roadway fatalities by ‘taking substantial, comprehensive action to significantly reduce serious and fatal injuries on the Nation’s roadways,’ in pursuit of the goal of achieving zero roadway deaths through a Safe System Approach. (See https://www.transportation.gov/NRSS) The outcomes that are anticipated from the projects funded by Developing Best Practices and Training for Driver Education should align with the NRSS. NHTSA seeks to issue an award that will create proportional impacts to all populations in a project area, remove transportation related disparities to all populations in a project area, and increase equitable access to project benefits, consistent with Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government (86 FR 7009).

Category: Education.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, NHTSA-693JJ927R000007-FY27, which is open now.

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