Project Grant 2613086
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the University of Massachusetts $325,001 on October 1, 2026, for collaborative research on activity-based modeling and optimization for 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 curb management...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,750 Project Grant to the University of Michigan-Dearborn through the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant funds research to develop decision models for designing and managing curb space resources in urban mobility systems. The University of Michigan-Dearborn will conduct the research from January 2022 to December 2023. As the prime awardee, the University will leverage its expertise in transportation engineering and systems analysis...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $800,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of an online learning framework to optimize transportation systems as emerging mobility options like connected and automated vehicles alter travel demand and efficiency. Specifically, MIT...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $202,000 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The funding will support collaborative research to develop scalable, data-driven predictive control frameworks for managing mixed traffic systems with connected and automated vehicles alongside human-driven vehicles. The project aims to enable advancements in transportation efficiency and...
- 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...
- This $249,358 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Amherst College on non-local microscopic and macroscopic traffic flow models. The investigator will construct and analyze multi-scale non-local mathematical models to more accurately capture driver behavior by integrating downstream information, compared to traditional local traffic flow models. The project aims to perform mathematical...
- 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...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $409,405 collaborative research project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research to advance experimental techniques and theoretical frameworks for understanding stress-tensor tomography in three-dimensional...
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 management strategies. The work characterizes curb-user behavior, quantifies social costs of inefficient curb utilization, and evaluates how pricing, allocation, and operational policies influence transportation system performance. The research integrates user-specific behavioral models with link- and network-level traffic flow models to capture interactions between curb demand, congestion, and system-wide externalities. Project activities include collaboration with local governments, freight and delivery providers, and mobility stakeholders to ensure practical relevance of the research. Performance occurs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $325.0k | 8/4/26 |