Carnegie Mellon University received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on October 1, 2021 to support work concluding on September 30, 2022. The grant falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA #47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through investigator-initiated research and cyberinfrastructure development....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant awarded to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) provides $500,000 in funding from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 to support research on modeling traffic patterns and travel behavior in response to cascading disruptions to transportation infrastructure and services. The project aims to develop a theoretical and computational framework that leverages high-granularity data to model vehicular and passenger flow under...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $799,986 will support research into developing an online learning framework for emerging mobility systems through June 2025. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the Trustees of Boston University will consolidate real-world transportation data to establish approaches for optimally controlling cyber-physical systems. Researchers will merge learning and control methods to enhance accessibility, safety, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) aims to revolutionize the understanding and prediction of human mobility patterns. The $300,000 award to Lehigh University, to be executed from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will support the development of privacy-preserving, federated neural networks to analyze large-scale, cross-domain human mobility data from sources like smartphones, payment...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $432,572 in funding to Drexel University to support research that investigates the impacts of deep learning on decision-making for transit systems. The project aims to develop a new deep learning paradigm that directly integrates decision models into the model design, with a focus on improving transit system applications such as timetable design and bus motion control. The research seeks...
This Project Grant award for $1,773,351.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), is designed to reduce the vulnerability of underserved communities in Philadelphia, PA to the social and environmental impacts of urban nuisance flooding. The key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying the spatiotemporal extent of nuisance flood risk for a range of storm events in the target communities. Developing novel strategies to reduce the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $149,999 Project Grant to the University of Houston System to support the "PILOT FOR EQUITABLE ELECTRIC MOBILITY: SMART CHARGING, SMART PARKING, AND METRO PASS SYSTEM" project. Funded under the NSF Engineering (47.041) program, which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education, this project will develop and pilot test technologies...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $1,199,999 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to pilot an on-demand multimodal transit system in Atlanta, Georgia from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing and information science and engineering fields. Under the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Project Grant award of $150,000, granted on May 1, 2025, will fund research at the University of California, Berkeley to develop novel system designs, models, and algorithms for state-aware demand control to enhance shared use of emerging autonomous mobility systems. The research project aims to leverage the real-time state of transportation networks to dynamically shape demand, incorporating evolving...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $210,000 to Morgan State University to establish a novel learning platform called the Engaged Learning Environment for Emerging Transportation Technologies (ELET2). The ELET2 platform will employ advanced simulation, visualization, and modeling techniques to deliver fundamental and up-to-date knowledge on emerging transportation technologies, such as connected and autonomous vehicles and...