FY 2022 Discretionary Funding Opportunity: Mobility, Access & Transportation Insecurity: Creating Links to Opportunity

Background
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity for a single Program Lead to apply for approximately $6.0 million under the Mobility, Access & Transportation Insecurity: Creating Links to Opportunity Program. The Transportation Insecurity Research Program will establish a research demonstration program to amplify public transportation with an emphasis to explore interventions to address transportation insecurity and evaluate outcomes and impacts upon individuals and communities.

Grant Details
The Program is comprised of several discrete components: (1) overall program management and coordination, (2) demonstration recruitment and selection through a two-stage competitive process, (3) human-centered demonstration design, (4) implementation of demonstrations, (5) demonstration cohort management and collaboration, and (6) structured quantitative and qualitative evaluation at the individual and aggregated levels culminating with a peer-reviewed report of findings. The Program Lead is responsible for the planning, deployment and evaluation of research demonstrations that provide the transportation resources necessary to implement targeted strategies that mitigate transportation insecurity for a defined population and determine the value of that mitigation to individuals and communities.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include departments, agencies, instrumentalities of the Government, institutions of higher education including research universities, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, technical and community colleges. Applicants must demonstrate experience conducting comprehensive research demonstrations focused on civic research, data- and technology-oriented research and innovation in areas of social services, mobility options, urban spaces, public health, public safety, and related areas.

Grant Value
$6 million is available to award one competitively selected Program Lead. FTA may provide additional funding at its discretion from FTA’s Public Transportation Innovation Program.