This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award for $599,784 supports research to investigate challenges and solutions related to the "final 50 feet" of urban package delivery. The award, made to George Washington University, will fund a 5-year research project to characterize the problems in the last segment of urban delivery, identify key drivers, and evaluate new policies, designs, and operations to address these challenges. The...
This Project Grant award of $937,867 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund a series of meetings where National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) researchers will present the results of white papers on various aspects of transportation economics. The topics to be covered include procurement, infrastructure and supply chains; the effects of policies aimed at...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $806,380 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to support research titled "CAREER: Marketplace Design for Freight Transportation and Logistics Platforms" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education that enables innovation.
Under this award, the Georgia Tech...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a $341,000 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: URBAN GOODS MOVEMENTS, PRICING, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2024. The grant will support research examining pricing strategies and their social impacts related to urban goods movement and delivery. The...
Cornell University received a $946,238 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026 titled "CAREER: ALGORITHMIC FOUNDATIONS FOR DEMAND-RESPONSIVE TRANSIT SYSTEMS - CREATING MORE EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES THROUGH BETTER TRANSIT." The research aims to develop algorithmic solutions to...
This $237,197 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to understand the time use, role behaviors, and well-being of employees working remotely or in hybrid work arrangements.
The project involves two studies: 1) a time use study analyzing activity and location data from the American Time Use Survey, and 2) a 10-day experience sampling study collecting psychological assessments and...
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $372,708 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on urban goods movements, pricing, and social justice. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education, this project will examine how goods delivery pricing structures impact urban communities. Working with researchers at Penn State, the grant will fund analysis of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $149,786 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Trustees of Tufts College to conduct research on the broader social and economic impacts of electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) placement. The project aims to understand how EVCS deployment affects community mobility, social dynamics, and the resilience of small and medium-sized businesses, particularly in vulnerable areas. The research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $374,395 Project Grant to the University of Chicago to support understanding logistics through multimodal experiments in ethnography from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024.
The grant supports research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in social,...
This $305,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports collaborative research to study how decisions made by multinational food companies influence the movement of people, animals, and resources into rural areas of the United States. The research will examine how these companies shape land use, the stated and unstated reasons for locating facilities in rural...