Get Funding for Railroad Safety Innovations
Posted: December 19, 2014
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Summary
This grant supports businesses and researchers developing groundbreaking concepts to enhance railroad safety and performance. Fund innovative ideas that could revolutionize the rail industry and receive valuable financial backing.
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Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs explore promising but unproven concepts with the potential to advance specific surface transportation systems. The Safety IDEA program investigates innovative concepts and methods to improve safety and performance of railroads, intercity buses and trucks. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) endeavors to provide funding for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to continue to carry out the Safety IDEA program. FRA funding for the Safety IDEA program has been provided since October 2002.
FRA joined the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), as a joint sponsor of the Safety IDEA program. FMCSA has been funding the Safety IDEA program since the program started in October 2001. The IDEA programs explore innovative concepts that are initiated and proposed by researchers, inventors, universities, or companies, both within and outside the usual transportation research community.