Beyond Traffic: The Smart City Challenge

The Smart City Challenge NOFO Phase 2 is available online at https://www.transportation.gov/smartcity/nofo-phase-2.Eligibility for this Smart City Challenge Phase 2 funding opportunity is limited to the following USDOT-selected Smart City Challenge Finalists only. Applications will not be accepted for consideration for organizations other than the following seven Smart City Challenge Finalists: • City of Austin, TX• City of Columbus, OH• City and County of Denver, CO• City of Kansas City, MO• City of Pittsburgh, PA• City of Portland, OR• San Francisco Municipal Transportation AgencyThe United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) is encouraging cities to put forward their best and most creative ideas for innovatively addressing the challenges they are facing. The vision of the Smart City Challenge is to demonstrate and evaluate a holistic, integrated approach to improving surface transportation performance within a city and integrating this approach with other smart city domains such as public safety, public services, and energy. The USDOT intends for this challenge to address how emerging transportation data, technologies, and applications can not only be integrated with existing systems in a city to address transportation challenges, but used to spur reinvestment in underserved communities. The USDOT seeks bold and innovative ideas for proposed demonstrations to effectively test, evaluate, and demonstrate the significant benefits of smart city concepts.The USDOT will make an award of up to $40 Million for one city that can demonstrate how advanced data and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies and applications can be used to reduce congestion, keep travelers safe, use energy more efficiently, respond to climate change, both connect and create opportunities for underserved communities, and support economic vitality. The USDOT issued two separate solicitations to carry out this challenge. The first solicitation resulted in selection of seven Smart City Challenge Finalists who received funding to support concept development and planning activities. This follow-on second solicitation invites the Smart City Challenge Finalists to apply for funding to support implementation of their proposed demonstration.