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Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
January 5–9, 2025
Join the Federal Highway Administration Center for Local Aid Support at booth #836 during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting – where the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) will showcase the 2024 Build a Better Mousetrap winners, feature live demos of the Geosynthetics Mobile App, and provide the latest updates on training and technical assistance available to local governments, tribes, and Federal land management agencies. Discover how USDOT enhances roadway networks and creates economic opportunities for communities across the nation. Full details and registration on the TRB Annual Meeting webpage.
New Funding Opportunity to Accelerate Adoption of Emerging Technologies
The Federal Highway Administration’s Accelerating Market Readiness (AMR) Program builds a bridge between research and practice and provides resources to assess whether innovations emerging from research will perform as intended in their operational environment. FHWA issued a multi-year Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the AMR program on October 29, 2024.
White papers under the first solicitation period are due January 15, 2025. The purpose of this BAA is to solicit a variety of solutions that will support the strategic objectives of the AMR program. The AMR program will provide resources for the assessment of emerging innovations and for the objective-written documentation of these assessments. These activities are intended to help advance the innovations to a more complete market-ready status, which in turn should accelerate the adoption of the innovations by transportation agencies. Full details may be found on the SAM.gov website.
Contact AMR Program Coordinator Amit Armstrong for additional information and assistance.
Every Day Counts Round 8 – Call for Ideas
Submission Deadline: February 4, 2025
Every Day Counts, a State-based initiative of the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Innovation and Workforce Solutions, works with State, local, and private sector partners to encourage the adoption of proven and underutilized technologies to deliver transportation projects more efficiently, enhance safety for all users, support a sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and incorporate equity in project planning and delivery.
FHWA is seeking suggestions for market-ready innovations to deploy in 2026 as part of the eighth round of Every Day Counts (EDC-8). The agency is encouraging State, local, Tribal, and industry partners, as well as the public, to submit innovative technologies or practices that can enhance safety for all road users and expedite the project delivery process.
View the EDC-8 Call for Ideas video below, and visit the EDC webpage for information on how to submit suggestions.