The Federal Highway Administration has announced a funding opportunity and requests grant applications for FHWA’s Competitive Highway Bridge Program. Congress appropriated $225 million for FY 2018 to be awarded by DOT for a competitive highway bridge program. Eligible applicants are States that have a population density of less than 100 individuals per square mile. The funds…
Today the Highway & Transit Subcommittee of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee held a hearing on ‘Innovation in Surface Transportation’. The Coalition for Smarter Transportation (CoaST) attended as well as provided the following statement ahead of the hearing: The Coalition for Smarter Transportation (CoaST) is grateful the Highways & Transit Subcommittee of the House…
The Department of Energy announced $80 million for advanced vehicle technologies research. Categories funded include: Batteries & Electrification Materials Technology Integration Engines & Fuels Off-Road and Fluid Power Systems. Funded projects include the use of big-data for transit systems, research on micro transit, amongst others. Funding Announcement Projects Selected Information about program
Join our friends at the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation as they host a webinar on Tallahassee’s StarMetro’s pilot of a mobile fare payment app. Connection information From CUTR: StarMetro’s Pilot of a Mobile Fare Payment App StarMetro, the public transit agency in Tallahassee, Florida, piloted the use of a mobile fare…
This week, the Internal Revenue Service released a notice requesting comments on draft guidance on tax-exempt organizations that have more than one unrelated business. The core of the guidance goes into how Unrelated Business Taxable Income (UBTI) would be applied to those organizations with multiple unrelated business lines and basically says that the losses of…
Today the Federal Transit Administration announced $84.45 million in grant selections through the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant program. This program, authorized by the FAST Act, funds the deployment of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced propulsion technologies. Eligible projects include the purchase or lease of buses that are powered by modern systems such as hybrid…
The Federal Highway Administration released stats on the number of miles Americans drove in the first half of 2018 and the numbers are concerning. Based upon these stats, Americans drove 1.58 trillion miles in the first half of 2018, that’s 5.2 billion miles more than the same time period last year. The increase in the…
Published on August 23, 2018 Andy Taylor –Co-authored with Stephen Coulter, Founder of Localift. — To say technology is forever changing mobility sounds like a terrible cliché. But the truth is, technological advancements and new economic models are changing transportation faster than many of us can comprehend, leaving us all in a constant race of ‘catching up’ and…
On August 20th, 2018, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a workshop on reducing GHG in the transportation sector through the petroleum industry. CoaST took the opportunity to offer suggestions on what CARB and other California municipalities can due to reduce GHG emissions from the transportation sector. It should be noted that California has been…
Our friends at Best Workplaces for Commuters are hosting a webinar on “Moving Beyond Trip Planning”. Moving Beyond Trip Planning: Technology Innovations for Your Campus or Workplace Thursday, August 23, 2018 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT Advances in technology are changing how universities, employers and managed properties shape commuter programs today. Learn how transportation leaders…