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                R&T Portfolio: Accelerating Market Readiness
    

    
    
    
      The Accelerating Market Readiness (AMR) program provides funding to spur the advancement of emerging transformative innovations that have the potential to enhance roadway safety, shorten the project delivery process, and improve the performance of the transportation infrastructure. Funding is available for testing and field evaluations, pilot demonstration projects, and documentation and dissemination of performance results to widen the knowledge base on the innovations.

For more information about the AMR Program, go to https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/amr/.

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        **Disaster Response Tool: Mobile Solution for Assessment and Reporting (MSAR)**
        Spotlight Project: Disaster Response Tool: Mobile Solution for Assessment and Reporting (MSAR)

"A worker in a high visibility vest standing on a road, next to three safety cones which block off a collapse of earth into a large ditch with a drainage outlet."

**Need:**For disaster events that impact the transportation infrastructure, time is of the essence. In many States the current process used by emergency relief personnel to inspect damaged roads, bridges and trails includes the dispatch of site inspectors to survey and manually document damage information. The manual reporting process is time consuming and significantly delays disaster management response time.

**Technology:**MSAR is a mobile app and web portal that enables collecting and sharing damage assessments and survey reports (e.g., data, voice, photos, videos, geospatial location) in real-time at the scene of a disaster event. Field data is collected using smartphones or tablets; and can be immediately transmitted to management and roadway designers to enable prompt decision-making.

**Activities funded:**Creation of web portal, app, and assessment forms; pilot demonstrations and evaluation in 27 States.

**Further Information:** https://collaboration.fhwa.dot.gov/dot/fhwa/msar/default.aspx

**Contact:**

Sergio Mayorga
FHWA, Federal Lands Highway Program OfficeSergio.Mayorga@dot.gov
703-404-6247



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