Research Partnership on Climate Change and Transportation (20.946)
Research Partnership on Climate Change and Transportation (Assistance Listing 20.946) is run by the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation, part of the Department of Transportation. It awarded $3.7 million in 1 grant from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $3.7 million per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.
There was 1 award in five years, of $3.7 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$3.7 million
- Grant awards1
- Typical award$3.7 million
- Awarded in FY 2025$3.7 million
- Size rank1,679 of 1,823
- Type of assistanceCooperative agreement
Key findings
- It is the 1679th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- Awards went to recipients in 1 states and territories.
What the program funds
The Center for Efficiency, Resiliency, and Community Engagement in Transportation research and technology goals: (1) support the transportation sector with innovative approaches and solutions; (2) build and invest in resilient transportation infrastructure, networks, and operations; (3) identify innovative approaches transportation solutions; and (4) otherwise advance understanding transportation needs and solutions to support community engagement and public safety. Priority research and technology development topics with high potential to serve these goals include, but are not limited to, the following: • Data and tools to reduce trips and shift trips to climate-friendly vehicles and modes, including shift to electric vehicles, transit, micromobility services, and active transport, combined with integrated transportation and land-use planning, including transit-oriented development, such that people are less dependent on personal vehicles and more likely to walk, bike, or use transit. • Transformative approaches to understanding, predicting, and addressing via technology, design, behavior, and policy interventions. Methods for better incorporating induced demand into travel demand models. Evidence-based approaches and tools for decision makers for assessing transportation investments, policies, and practices. • Cutting-edge technologies that have the potential to leverage transportation technology to transform the United States to be a world class leader in transportation innovations in data-driven insights, automation, and integrated system-of-systems. • Innovative applications of social and behavioral sciences for transportation demand management and other policy interventions that support consumer transportation choices, mode shift, seamless modal connectivity. Research supporting state and local governments considering policy options to realign consumer incentives and disincentives to encourage lower-carbon consumer choices. • Innovative use of new and emerging sensor technology to support the assessment and early detection of pollutants, helping public agencies reduce climate and environmental impacts and transportation and respond to environmental emergencies, and integration of such analyses into climate and environmental justice policy decisions. • The development and deployment of methods to assess and reduce the risks to transportation system performance. • Innovative adaptation strategies and standards for the new resilient transportation networks system in rural and tribal areas elevated transportation corridors, alternate road surfaces improve connectivity and multimodal use. • Innovative research on policy solutions to tackle challenges around deployment of transportation technologies at the local level, such as research on balancing priorities the need for rapid deployment and adoption to prioritizing community engagement. • Other innovative approaches and solutions to propel the United States into the next generation of the transportation sector.
Open opportunities
No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.
Rules from the program listing
Who can apply
This competition is open to all eligible parties and their partnering organizations. Eligible parties include, but are not limited to, institutions of higher education, public research entities (e.g., University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), national laboratories, etc.), and private and 501(c)3 nonprofit research entities
What the money can and cannot pay for
U.S. DOT seeks to fund a climate and transportation research center that advances research to support Administration efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, incorporate evidence-based climate resilience and adaptation measures and features, reduce the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from the project materials, and avoid adverse environmental impacts to air or water quality, wetlands, and endangered species, and address the disproportionate negative environmental impacts of transportation on disadvantaged communities, consistent with Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (86 FR 7619).” Further, U.S. DOT seeks to fund a climate and transportation research center that will advance research to support Administration efforts to 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 The agreement funds intended for award under this Notice of Funding Opportunity do not apply to, and may not be used for, construction activities or projects.
Matching requirements
This program has no statutory formula. Cost sharing or matching is required. The Federal Share of the cost of activities carried out by the climate and transportation research center is based on a 2 to 1 cost share ratio (2 Federal to 1 Non-federal match). Applicants must include evidence of their ability to match the Federal Share at this level. Program income must be handled in accordance with Section F.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.
Deadlines
Deadlines do not apply
Award range and average, in the agency's words
The total amount of funding available in this Notice of Funding Opportunity for FY 2023 is $2 million up to $4 million over a two-year period, pending availability of funds. The US DOT grant funds may be expended up to December 31, 2025, and Eligible Entities will have until that date to meet the full match requirement by obtaining and expending those funds.
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Research Partnership on Climate Change and Transportation (20.946) awarded $3.7 million across 1 grant award, an average of $3.7 million per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Davis | California | 1 | $3.7 million |
Who usually wins
Almost all of the money went to colleges and universities.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colleges and universities | 1 | $3.7 million | 100% |
By state
Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| California | 1 | $3.7 million |