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
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)
