SUMMARY: Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) provides supplemental funding grants to rural, midsized, and large communities to conduct demonstration projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems in a variety of communities to improve transportation efficiency and safety. A SMART grant may be used to conduct a project that demonstrates at least 1 of the following:
- Coordinated Automation
- Connected Vehicles
- Intelligent, Sensor-Based Infrastructure
- Systems Integration
- Commerce Delivery and Logistics
- Leveraging Use of Innovative Aviation Technology
- Smart Grid
- Smart Technology Traffic Signals
DEADLINE: Applications were to be submitted by November 18, 2022. A similar deadline is anticipated, annually.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants are: (A) A State; (B) a political subdivision of a State; (C) a Tribal government; (D) a public transit agency or authority; (E) a public toll authority; (F) a metropolitan planning organization; and (G) a group of 2 or more eligible entities described.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.transportation.gov/grants/SMART