State and Local Government Data Analysis Tools for Roadway Safety

The Department of Transportation's Office of the Secretary is funding data analysis tools and platforms for roadway safety under CFDA 20.935, with the most recent grant awards disbursed in September 2020.

This program has not been active since 2020. Nine cooperative agreements totaling $2.9 million federal dollars were awarded in that single funding year, representing a one-time initiative rather than an ongoing solicitation cycle. No grant opportunities have been posted since the most recent NOFO closed on January 17, 2020, and no awards have been made in the six years since the final 2020 disbursements.

The program funded State and local governments to develop, refine, and implement web-based data analysis and visualization tools addressing specific roadway safety problems. Recent awards support concrete deliverables: Massachusetts received $422,932 to enhance a web-based data portal with a safety analysis module identifying risk factors for highway safety plans and mapping high-risk locations. New Orleans received $402,768 to validate and expand pedestrian fatality risk prediction tools and develop high injury network identification capabilities. Connecticut received $418,979 to develop a behavioral safety analysis tool complementing its roadway safety management system and incorporating law enforcement perspectives. Additional awards funded real-time crash risk visualization for traffic management, automated road feature extraction from LIDAR data, and pedestrian and bicyclist exposure analysis dashboards using mobile device location data.

The program operated as a cooperative agreement vehicle exclusively, structured around the Safety Data Initiative. The Department of Transportation provided all funding. Eligible applicants included State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, regional governments, other political subdivisions, and federally recognized and non-federally recognized Tribal governments and organizations.

The program is not currently soliciting applications and has not posted new opportunities since late 2019. Pursuit of funding under this Assistance Listing is not viable at this time absent a new NOFO.