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SBIR Eligibility
Only United States small businesses are eligible to participate in the U.S. DOT SBIR program. At the time of Phase I and II awards, businesses must meet all of the criteria listed on this page.Resilience and Disaster Recovery Tool Suite
About this DocumentThe U.S. DOT Volpe Center is helping agencies make informed decisions about future infrastructure investments. Learn more about the Resilience and Disaster Recovery Tool Suite.
About U.S. DOT’s SBIR Program
Program OverviewThe U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program awards over $10 million annually in contracts to U.S. small businesses to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation...
Helping to Build a Better America
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center recently released a series of resources and stories of recent work in alignment with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes historic infrastructure investments: improving public safety and climate resilience, creating jobs across the country, and delivering a more...New Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Tools for Estimating Emissions Benefits of Highway and Intermodal Projects
The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program provides funding to state and local governments for transportation projects and programs in air quality nonattainment and maintenance areas to help meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. CMAQ funded projects must demonstrate...Developing a Tool Suite to Address Resilience Return on Investment in Transportation Infrastructure
State and federal agencies need to determine which assets will provide the best ROI when considering transportation infrastructure resilience. The RDR Tool Suite will provide transportation agencies with the tools necessary to evaluate the ROI provided by a set of resilience investments across a...Innovative Uses of Data Science to Solve Transportation Problems
State DOTs, metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), and regional transportation planning agencies rely on complex data to solve the nation’s congestion, infrastructure, and equity issues. U.S. DOT Volpe Center data experts are using tools from the data science and machine learning toolbox to...Increasing Access to Work Zone Information to Improve Highway Safety for All
The nation’s transportation system is becoming increasingly data driven. Safe and efficient mobility for all is dependent on reliable real-time information about work zones and other disruptions to usual traffic operations. Standardizing access to these data is critical to improving safety—not only...Advanced Air Mobility: Our Experience
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center team is working with sponsors, including FAA, NASA, DOD, and other government agencies and industry innovators, to explore ways to safely and efficiently incorporate transformative technologies and emerging concepts into the National Airspace System (NAS). ...