[H+T--Friends] FHWA Research Opportunities

The Federal Highway Administration, through the Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty is soliciting proposals for research and development projects that could lead to innovative changes and revolutionary advances for transportation planning in the United States. The objective of this Broad Area (research) Announcement (BAA) is to advance the practice and application of transportation planning among State, metropolitan, regional, local, and Tribal transportation planning governments in response to significant changes in the planning process and to identify new tools, techniques, and approaches that respond to national transportation planning priorities. If you read through the announcement you will see that HEALTH is mentioned in it in several places. The program scope is designed to address a wide spectrum of topics and objectives that FHWA supports. It is intended to spur innovation and focus on high level initiatives with a high pay-off in research and developmental projects. The FHWA has budgeted approximately $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2014 to fund this research announcement. Proposals will be evaluated using a two-part process consisting of pre-proposals and full-proposals. Offerors whose pre-proposals are of interest to the FHWA will be invited to submit full proposals. The FHWA may select to award all, none, or a subset of the acceptable proposals meeting its needs. The FHWA anticipates making multiple awards, typically of 12-24 months duration with the size of individual awards varying based on the type of research area and study requirements. For more information consult the announcement at https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=7cc6912a1a2df53610eccbefe9e38d12 Or visit the solicitation web page https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=46b5c187590e07… Ed Christopher FHWA Resource Center Planning Team 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443 708-283-3534 (V) 708-283-3501 (F) 708-574-8131 (C) [logo]