WASHINGTON — The Federal Transit Administration is offering $1.94 million in grants to fund research projects to improve customer convenience, such as finding easier ways to pay for rides or to enhance schedules based on rider demand.
The Enhancing Mobility Innovation program is open to transit agencies; state and local transportation departments; state and local governments, including metropolitan planning organizations; private and nonprofit organizations; Indian tribes; and colleges and universities.
The FTA says funding will be awarded in two categories:=
— Innovations focusing on new service delivery models, creative financing, novel partnerships, and integrated payment solutions.
— Solfeware solutions that improve ways to provide demand-response public transportation service.
“The Enhancing Mobility Innovation program supports transit agencies as they work to strengthen mobility, with a focus on how innovation can improve service delivery and make trains, buses, and ferries easier to use and more attractive to riders,” FTA Acting Administrator Veronica Vanterpool said in a press release. “This funding will help spur innovation so that people can get to their destinations more reliably, comfortably and conveniently.”
Eligibility and application information is available on the FTA website or at Grants.Gov.
This is the second round of funding for the program. Nine projects in six states were selected in 2022.
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