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          **Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) Program**

The ATCMTD Program under the FAST Act is now the Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Development (ATTIMD)/Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN). For past ATCMTD milestones under the FAST Act, go to the webpage here: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/fastact/index.htm.

Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Development (ATTIMD)/Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN)

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) amended the ATCMTD grant program and renamed it the ATTIMTD Program. In implementing BIL, FHWA will refer to this program as the ATTAIN program. The program provides competitive grants to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment. Each Fiscal Year, 2022 through FY 2026, $60 million is authorized and the Federal share for each project may be up to 80 percent of the cost of the project.

**Eligible activities**
Grant recipients may use funds under this program to deploy advanced transportation and congestion management technologies, including the following:

Advanced transportation technologies to improve emergency evacuation and responses by Federal, State, and local authorities;
	Integrated corridor management systems;
	Advanced parking reservation or variable pricing systems;
	Electronic pricing, toll collection, and payment systems;
	Technology that enhances high occupancy vehicle toll lanes, cordon pricing, or congestion pricing;
	Integration of transportation service payment systems;
	Advanced mobility access and on-demand transportation service technologies, such as dynamic ridesharing and other shared-use mobility applications and information systems to support human services for elderly and disabled individuals;
	Retrofitting dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technology deployed as part of an existing pilot program to cellular vehicle-to-everything technology, subject to the condition that the retrofitted technology operates only within the existing spectrum allocations for connected vehicle systems; or
	Advanced transportation technologies, in accordance with research areas described in the DOT’s 5-year transportation research and development strategic plan (section 6503 of title 49, United States Code). [§ 13006(b)(6); 23.U.S.C. 503(c)(4)(E)]Not less than 20% of the amounts made available to carry out this program shall be reserved for projects serving rural areas. [§ 13006(b)(5); 23 U.S.C. 503(c)(4)(D)(ii)(II)]

**Eligible applicants**Grant recipients may use funds under this program to deploy advanced transportation and congestion management technologies, including the following:

Advanced transportation technologies to improve emergency evacuation and responses by Federal, State, and local authorities;
	Integrated corridor management systems;
	Advanced parking reservation or variable pricing systems;
	Electronic pricing, toll collection, and payment systems;
	Technology that enhances high occupancy vehicle toll lanes, cordon pricing, or congestion pricing;
	Integration of transportation service payment systems;
	Advanced mobility access and on-demand transportation service technologies, such as dynamic ridesharing and other shared-use mobility applications and information systems to support human services for elderly and disabled individuals;
	Retrofitting DSRC technology deployed as part of an existing pilot program to cellular vehicle-to-everything technology, subject to the condition that the retrofitted technology operates only within the existing spectrum allocations for connected vehicle systems; or
	Advanced transportation technologies, in accordance with research areas described in the DOT’s 5-year transportation research and development strategic plan (section 6503 of title 49, United States Code). [§ 13006(b)(6); 23.U.S.C. 503(c)(4)(E)] [23.U.S.C. 503(c)(4)(E)].Not less than 20% of the amounts made available to carry out this program shall be reserved for projects serving rural areas. [§ 13006(b)(5); 23 U.S.C. 503(c)(4)(D)(ii)(II)]

**Eligible applicants**Eligible applicants include the following:

State or local government or political subdivision thereof.
	Transit agency.
	Metropolitan planning organization (MPO).
	Multijurisdictional group made up of the above eligible applicants with a signed agreement to implement the initiative across jurisdictional boundaries.
	Consortium of research or academic institutions [23 U.S.C. 503(c)(4)(N)].**Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) Program**

The FAST Act established the STSFA program to provide grants to States or groups of States to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that use a user-fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. The objectives of the program are the following:

Test the design, acceptance, and implementation of two or more future user-based alternative mechanisms.
	Improve the functionality of the user-based alternative revenue mechanisms.
	Conduct outreach to increase public awareness regarding the need for alternative funding sources for surface transportation programs and to provide information on possible approaches.
	Provide recommendations regarding adoption and implementation of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms.
	Minimize the administrative cost of any potential user-based alternative revenue mechanisms.In FY 2016, $15 million was authorized and each year FY 2017 through FY 2020, $20 million is authorized and the Federal share for each project may be up to 50 percent of the cost of the project.

**Eligible activities**
Recipient will use program funds to test the design, acceptance, and implementation of a user-based alternative revenue mechanism, consistent with the program’s objectives.

**Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration Program**

The AID Demonstration program is one initiative under the multi-faceted Technology and Innovation Deployment Program (TIDP) approach providing funding and other resources to offset the risk of trying an innovation. The new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) was published on September 1, 2016, continuing the AID Demonstration program under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. No. 114-94). Applications for the AID Demonstration program are being accepted under Opportunity Number FHWA-2016-21063 through Grants.gov.

AID Demonstration Factsheet
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