The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) received a $900,000 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration on April 14, 2021 under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205). The funding will support MnDOT's project titled "National Partnership to Determine the Life Extending Benefit Curves of Pavement Preservation Techniques (MnROAD/NCAT Joint Study - Phase II)". As the name implies, the project aims to further analyze pavement preservation...
The Alabama Department of Transportation received a $595,075 project grant award from the Federal Highway Administration on February 12, 2021 under the Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200). The grant funds will support accelerated performance testing on the 2021 National Center for Asphalt Technology pavement test track in partnership with the Minnesota Road Research Project. Specifically, the grant will allow for testing of pavement materials and designs to maintain and...
The Federal Highway Administration awarded a $250,000 Project Grant on July 2, 2024 to the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) through the Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200). The funding supports accelerated performance testing on the 2021 National Center for Asphalt Technology Pavement Test Track, in partnership with the MnROAD research facility. This project aims to advance pavement technologies and practices through extensive field testing and analysis of pavement...
This $140,000 Formula Grant awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) to the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) Transit and Rail Division will fund the evaluation and testing of various pavement design techniques, including cold in-place recycling, cold central plant recycling, and full depth reclamation. The project, titled "Pavement Design Testing On-Call," aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of these...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MN DOT) received a $187,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200). The grant funds a statewide assessment of continuous bituminous pavement stripping through non-destructive testing methods. The goal is to enhance transportation infrastructure safety, accessibility, and sustainability across Minnesota. MN DOT, as the state's...
This federal Project Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200) provides $156,250.00 to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MN DOT) to support the development of non-proprietary ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) prestressed bridge girders on a statewide basis. The project aims to advance transportation infrastructure through the research and deployment of innovative concrete technologies. As a key state...
This $434,600 Formula Grant award was provided by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). The award will fund the "Phase II: Continuous Asphalt Mixture Compaction Assessment Using Density Profiling System (DPS)" project, which aims to develop and evaluate a continuous asphalt mixture compaction assessment system. The project commenced on June 20, 2025 and...
This Project Grant award, valued at $676,934.41, was provided by the Federal Highway Administration under the Highway Planning and Construction (CFDA 20.205) federal grant program. The award is funding a project titled "CSAH 21: (PERM REPAIRS) CSAH 14 TO 2285' E OF CSAH 14 IN NICOLLET CO- CONST PERMANENT SLOPE STABILIZATION & INFRASTRUCTURE IMP TO REPAIR SLOPE FAILURE" in Minnesota. The primary awardee is the Minnesota Department of Transportation, which will use the funds to...
This is a $500,000 Formula Grant awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) to the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) Transit and Rail Division. The grant will be used to perform a local calibration of the Pavement Mechanistic-Empirical Design (PMED) using distress data collected after 2016, and to develop materials inputs and parameters that represent New Mexico's local materials and climates. This effort...
The Federal Highway Administration, under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205), awarded a $151,272 Formula Grant to the Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT). The grant funds a project titled "Electric Arc Furnace Slag as a Paving Material - Phase I: Physical, Chemical, Morphological and Mineralogical Characterization and Environmental Analysis." This Phase I study will characterize the physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of electric arc...