The FAST (Fixing America’s Surface Transportation) Act established the Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Program to make competitive grants for the development of model deployment sites for large scale installation and operation of advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and infrastructure return on investment.

This program provides awards to eligible entities to develop model deployment sites for large scale installation and operation of advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and infrastructure return on investment. These model deployments are expected to provide benefits in the form of:

– reduced traffic-related fatalities and injuries;
– reduced traffic congestion and improved travel time reliability;
– reduced transportation-related emissions;
– optimized multimodal system performance;
– improved access to transportation alternatives, including for underserved
populations;
– public access to real time integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation
information to make informed travel decisions;
– cost savings to transportation agencies, businesses, and the traveling public; or
– other benefits to transportation users and the general public.

Eligible applicants include: state and local governments, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, political subdivisions of a state or local government, multi-jurisdictional groups, or consortia of research or academic institutions. A consortium should represent a long-term relationship that will last the full life of the award. A sole research or academic organization that is not part of a consortium is not eligible