Project Grant 2609977
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the Regents of the University of Minnesota $334,264 on September 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop mathematical and computational tools for infrastructure planning under uncertain and changing user demand. The research creates an integrated hierarchical optimization framework for user-centric infrastructure planning that models and investigates interdependence between...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $325,000 to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 1, 2026, for collaborative research on activity-based modeling and optimization of urban curb management under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research develops an integrated framework combining activity-based behavioral models, traffic flow models, economic analysis, simulation, and optimization to evaluate alternative curb...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded The Regents Of The University Of Colorado, doing business as University Of Colorado-Denver, $349,614 on January 1, 2027, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop mathematical methods that enable public transit agencies to design service plans and allocate resources while incorporating stakeholder preferences and securing community approval. The research creates a new analytical...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Carnegie Mellon University received a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. The award supports research to develop a theoretical and computational framework for modeling spatiotemporal vehicular and passenger flow during cascading infrastructure disruptions. The project leverages...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $367,616 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) will fund research to establish a theoretical framework for evaluating and optimizing data acquisition in transportation networks. The research project aims to quantify the value of data from various sources to help transportation network operators, such as the California Department of Transportation, make more informed decisions about which data to...
- This $400,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) supports research to accelerate the design of controllers for large-scale engineering systems, with a focus on improving transportation systems. The research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will utilize extensive offline datasets, including vehicle mile data from the I-24 Motion Open Road Testbed in Nashville, Tennessee, to develop efficient and adaptive control...
- This $113,834 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research at North Carolina State University to develop efficient algorithms for optimal transport in geometric settings. The project aims to advance the theoretical underpinnings of optimal transport, a powerful tool for comparing probability distributions, and bridge the gap between theory and practice of algorithms. By...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Award Details: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $350,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. This Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) Track B project develops and deploys data-driven analytics to improve the efficiency, availability, and affordability of community...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded North Carolina State University $549,353 on July 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a dynamical-systems framework for analyzing global optimization algorithms used in engineering design. The recipient will model widely used optimization algorithms—including stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics, branch-and-bound, outer approximation, and black-box...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $350,000 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota on March 1, 2027, to develop faster computational methods for transportation network design optimization. The project, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), addresses the challenge that transportation agencies lack efficient tools to evaluate infrastructure investments while accounting for how travelers respond to changes in the transportation system. The research develops a new computational framework combining high-point relaxations, value-function cuts, and strong duality cuts to solve bilevel optimization problems that model infrastructure decisions and traveler route choices under user equilibrium conditions. The project investigates convex relaxation techniques, decomposition strategies, and branching methods to deliver provably optimal or near-optimal solutions more efficiently than existing approaches. Deliverables include open-source software, graduate student education, integration of research findings into transportation engineering curricula, and technology transfer through collaborations with transportation agencies. Work is performed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with performance through February 28, 2030.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $350.0k | 7/20/26 |