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qualify or actually pursue the 

authorization to conduct a SIC 

professional development program. 

The FAA estimates that 

approximately 20 operators would be 

required to submit a newly developed 

SIC Professional Development Training 

Program for approval in the first year 

that the program is available. The FAA 

estimates that 50 operators will request 

an amendment to their existing PIC/SIC 

training program. This time burden is 

reflected in § 135.325, Training program 

and revision. 

Frequency: As needed. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Section 135.99(c) permits a 

certificate holder to seek approval of an 

SIC professional development program 

via issuance of operations specifications 

(Ops Specs) to allow the certificate 

holder’s pilots to log SIC time. Under an 

approved SIC professional development 

program, pilots may log SIC time in part 

135 operations conducted in 

multiengine airplanes and single engine 

turbine-powered airplanes that do not 

otherwise require an SIC, if those pilots: 

(1) Meet certification, training, and 

qualification requirements for pilots in 

part 135 operations, and (2) serve under 

the supervision of a part 135 PIC who 

meets certain experience requirements. 

The FAA estimates that 20 operators 

will take approximately 40 hours each 

to develop and submit an acceptable 

new SIC training program. This program 

change will result in a burden increase 

of 800 hours in the first year of 

information collection only. 

The FAA estimates that 50 operators 

will take approximately 20 hours each 

to revise and submit an acceptable SIC 

training program. This program change 

will result in a burden increase of 1000 

hours. 

The new or revised SIC training 

program will result in a burden of 1800 

total hours in the first year of 

information collection. 

In addition, the FAA has revised the 

burden in section 135.325 to remove the 

calculation of the burden for new 

applicants (for initial approval of 

training programs); this burden should 

not be reflected in this collection as it 

is already addressed in a previously 

approved collection (2120–0593 

Certification: Air Carriers and 

Commercial Operators—FAR Part 119). 

This change is necessary to avoid 

double-counting the burden. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

overall burden for part 135 was 

previously estimated at 1,154,674 hours. 

With the removal of the initial 

certification burden already accounted 

for in the part 119 statement, addition 

of the SIC training program 

development and approval burden, the 

total new annual reduced burden 

estimate is 1,146,938.6 hours. This is a 

reduction of 7,735.4 hours from the 

previous estimate. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 

2018. 

Barbara L. Hall, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Performance, Policy, and Records 

Management Branch, ASP–110. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12798 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation 

[DOT–OST–2018–0081] 

Solving for Safety Visualization 

Challenge Solver Solicitation 

AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics, Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (USDOT) is launching 

the Solving for Safety Visualization 

Challenge to incentivize the use of 

safety data in the development of 

innovative analytical visualization tools 

that will reveal insights into serious 

crashes and improve understanding of 

transportation safety. The Challenge 

serves as a platform to capture the 

imaginations of technology and data 

firms, transportation stakeholders, and 

state and local agencies to unlock their 

creativity, and empower them to 

develop innovative new data 

visualization tools that can help 

improve road and rail user safety, to 

benefit all transportation users. 

The Challenge is open to individuals 

and teams (Solvers) from the business 

and research communities, including 

technology companies, analytics firms, 

transportation carriers, industry 

associations, research institutions, 

universities, mapping and visualization 

providers. Solvers will compete for cash 

prizes that will be awarded throughout 

the multi-stage Challenge. The 

Challenge prize purse is $350,000, with 

four semi-finalists competing for a 

portion of the $100,000 interim prize 

and two final-stage Solvers competing 

for a portion of the $250,000 final prize. 

DATES: The Challenge will begin on June 

14, 2018. After the launch, USDOT will 

accept Stage I submissions up to 11:59 

p.m. EDT on July 31, 2018. A panel of 

judges will review team submissions 

and announce Stage I finalists in August 

2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information, and to register your 

intent to compete individually or as part 

of a team, visit www.transportation.gov/ 

Solve4Safety, email Solve4Safety@

dot.gov or contact Ed Strocko at 202– 

366–8189. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Problem 

In 2017, motor vehicle traffic crashes 

resulted in an estimated 37,150 

fatalities.1 Comprehensively, crashes are 

a societal harm that cost the Nation over 

$800 billion annually in lives lost or 

injured, as well as lost work 

productivity and property damage.2

When the cost of serious crashes is put 

into context, the weight of this issue 

becomes much more grave and the need 

for an innovative, non-traditional 

approach becomes apparent. Safety is 

USDOT’s number one priority, and we 

are committed to reducing the incidence 

of serious and fatal injuries on our 

roadways. 

The USDOT’s transportation safety 

programs have decades of research and 

design behind them and have proven 

effective in reducing injuries and 

fatalities by 40% between 1990 and 

2011. In recent years, these advances 

have leveled off, and new insights and 

strategies are required to make further 

advances. 

Traditional factors do not fully 

explain the causes of the recent 

significant increase in traffic fatalities. 

Increases in driving are one factor; 

however, the rate of fatalities per 100 

million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) 

also increased from 1.08 fatalities per 

100 million VMT in 2014 to an 

estimated 1.17 in 2017.1 Economic 

conditions, gasoline prices, weather and 

other factors are also correlated with 

increased traffic fatalities. 

USDOT seeks to reverse the current 

trend, rapidly detect changes that 

indicate unsafe conditions, and reduce 

transportation-related fatalities and 

serious injuries across the transportation 

system. The Department is pursuing 

data-informed decision-making to help 

strategically prioritize and address 

transportation safety risks. One pillar of 

this approach is data visualization. 

USDOT seeks clear, compelling data 

visualization tools that make data 

analysis and insights accessible to 

policy-makers, transportation providers 

and the public who make safety choices 

every day. 


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Challenge 

Currently transportation decision 

makers have a limited number of 

analytical visualization tools available 

that reveal insights, and even fewer 

focused on safety and prevention of 

serious crashes. A new opportunity lies 

in the rapid growth and advancement in 

technology and analytics markets 

combined with the volume and variety 

of transportation and other data now 

collected by the public and private 

sectors. 

For this reason, Solving for Safety 

Visualization Challenge is looking for 

the best innovators from the business 

and research communities, including 

technology companies, analytics firms, 

transportation carriers, industry 

associations, research institutions, 

universities, mapping and visualization 

providers, to tackle this challenge. 

Analytical visualization tools can cast 

new light on the data to reveal insights 

not seen though tabular analysis. The 

Challenge has been created to advance 

the use of safety data visualizations for 

answering analytical questions related 

to surface transportation system safety. 

In this challenge, Solvers will 

compete for cash prizes by developing 

innovative analytical visualization tools 

to gain insights into fatalities and 

serious injuries on the U.S. road and rail 

systems that policymakers, providers, 

and operators can use to inform the 

development of safety solutions. 

Challenge Solvers will choose to 

develop one of two types of analytical 

visualization tools: 

Discover Insights Tools which analyze data 

to reveal patterns and trends, and use 

compelling visualizations to explain what is 

happening, understand the meaning behind 

the data, and draw conclusions. These tools 

often combine disparate data sets and allow 

a user to ask a question and search for 

answers visually. 

Simulation Tools which assist in decisionmaking by visualizing data, mathematical, 

and statistical models to identify issues, 

determine correlations, and assign 

probabilities with a degree of accuracy. 

Developed using existing models and data, 

including those provided by USDOT and 

Innovation Agents, this type of tool will 

allow users to visualize the outputs of model 

simulations and scenarios, highlighting the 

different conditions and the results of 

sensitivity and parametric analysis to 

visually assist in decision-making. 

USDOT is looking for Solvers to bring 

novel concepts and perspectives to 

existing models and data to develop 

analytical visualization tools that 

provide life-saving insights and 

solutions for transportation safety. 

Solvers should use innovation and 

creativity to further define the tools. 

Tools can range from dashboards using 

disparate data sets, to spatial analysis 

via maps, virtual or augmented reality 

scenarios, image and image analysis, 

social media mining and beyond. The 

tools can be powered by models and 

data provided by USDOT, Challenge 

Innovation Agents and/or resources to 

which Solvers have access to through 

their organizations, partners, and other 

sources. See www.transportation.gov/ 

solve4safety for a sample list of datasets 

and tools. 

Challenge Solvers will develop 

analytical visualization tools to 

complement existing USDOT projects 

while addressing one or more of the 

following safety focus areas: 

1. Vulnerable System Users—these include 

non-motorized road users, such as 

pedestrians and cyclists, as well as 

motorcyclists and persons with disabilities or 

reduced mobility and orientation, such as 

those with declining vision and hearing. 

Ongoing work at USDOT has identified those 

who are more at risk on the road system, but 

beyond the police reports and behavior 

research, pieces of the story that can improve 

how we protect these users are still missing. 

Example questions Solvers might address: 

• Between 2013 and 2016 there was a 25- 

percent increase in pedestrians killed in 

traffic crashes.3 A disproportionate share of 

these pedestrian fatalities involved males, 

occurred in urban locations, and took place 

after dark. How can data visualization tools 

support decision-makers in learning from the 

relationships among various contributory 

crash risk factors that are specific to their 

communities? 

• A Crash Modification Factor (CMF) is a 

multiplicative factor that indicates the 

proportion of crashes that would be expected 

after implementing a countermeasure. 

Examples of countermeasures include 

installing a traffic signal, increasing the 

width of road edge lines, and installing a 

median barrier. We have proven that 

different countermeasures work, and we 

know the CMFs for each countermeasure, but 

how could we help decision makers choose 

among appropriate countermeasures? 

2. Conflict Points Impacts—these are 

locations where user paths intersect, 

including road intersections and rail grade 

crossings. Conflict points are categorized as 

crossing, merging (or joining) and diverging 

(or separating). We’re investigating which 

conflict points correlate most with motor 

vehicle crashes, but we don’t fully 

understand the difference between nearmisses and impacts at these points. Example 

questions Solvers might address: 

• Much of the nation is built around the 

railroad system. By developing around this 

infrastructure, we have unintentionally 

created conflict points that users are drawn 

to, often putting communities at greatest risk. 

How can data visualization tools better 

support urban planners identifying which 

grade crossings are more prone to accidents 

and the best risk reduction strategies to 

employ? 

• In the United States, over the last several 

years an average of one-quarter of traffic 

fatalities and roughly half of all traffic 

injuries are attributed to intersections.4

Strategies to address roadway intersection 

safety are diverse: They are often 

engineering-based, including geometric 

design and application of traffic control 

devices (such as signs, markings and signals) 

and with a foundation in human factors. 

Quite often, it is a combination of these 

strategies that is needed to truly solve a 

problem. How can we visually compare the 

safety impacts of traditional signals, 

roundabouts, and protected left turns? 

3. High Risk Factors—these include young 

drivers, impaired drivers, drowsy drivers, 

older drivers, and speeding drivers. We’ve 

identified high risk factors, but we don’t have 

complete insights on the role of spatial and 

temporal exposures. Example questions 

Solvers might address: 

• There is a misalignment between human 

behavior and judgment, and roadway and 

vehicle design. New, young drivers have a 

higher crash risk than any other age group. 

How can data visualization tools support and 

educate people to improve their driving 

behaviors? 

• In 2015, alcohol-impaired driving 

fatalities accounted for 29 percent of the total 

motor vehicle traffic fatalities. How can data 

visualization tools support first responders’ 

on-site interventions? 

Challenge Solvers will also focus their 

analytical visualization tools by designing 

them for use by one of the following 

audiences: 

Policy makers and influencers—these are 

people in Federal, State, and local 

government agencies, associations, and 

industry bodies. They attempt to reduce 

transportation-related fatalities and serious 

injuries by analyzing safety data to identify 

safety risks and recommending a series of 

strategies, incentives or disincentives using 

personnel, funding, or laws and regulations 

to address them. 

Providers/Operators—these are people in 

business and government who build and 

operate the transportation system. These 

include vehicle and equipment 

manufacturers, trucking and rail companies, 

state and local departments of transportation, 

law enforcement, and emergency services. 

They attempt to influence the reduction of 

transportation-related fatalities and serious 

injuries by analyzing safety data and 

designing equipment and facilities, 

performing system diagnostics, evaluating 

safety effectiveness, and developing 

operations, countermeasures and techniques 

to reduce fatalities and serious injuries for 

users of the transportation system. 

Public—these are people who use the 

transportation system or live in the United 

States. These include motor vehicle drivers, 

motor vehicle passengers, bicyclists and 

pedestrians. They have an interest in 

protecting themselves and others in the 

community who use the transportation 

system. 

All ideas will compete against the full 

pool of entries regardless of the type of 


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tool, safety focus area or audience being 

proposed. 

The Challenge invites creative minds 

from across the Nation to reveal these 

missing links. The business and 

research communities have the unique 

set of skills and creativity to step up and 

revolutionize transportation safety. The 

transportation safety community has 

welcomed innovation, but will benefit 

further from the perspective and skills 

of other subject areas. To foster new, 

novel, and innovative analytical 

visualization tools, USDOT is looking 

for Solvers and data from a variety of 

sectors. The USDOT encourages the 

participation of Solvers from outside the 

traditional transportation safety arena 

who will bring innovative methods, 

procedures, techniques, and strategies 

when developing solutions. The USDOT 

also has an interest in stimulating the 

integration of new or private sector data 

sources into the Solvers’ analytical 

visualization tools. 

The USDOT Solving for Safety 

Visualization Challenge can act as an 

engine in driving serious crash 

reduction. By incentivizing innovation, 

USDOT will attract the best Solvers 

from around the nation to come up with 

new tools for visualizing the risks of 

serious crashes. As with other 

government competitions, the USDOT 

Solving for Safety Visualization 

Challenge aims to create a vibrant 

community of thinkers and doers who 

drive revolutionary innovation. 

Technology has already changed how 

most of us get around. Let’s leverage it 

to change how we view transportation 

safety. 

Stages and Prizes 

The Challenge consists of three stages. 

Individuals/teams (Solvers) will 

compete for an overall prize purse of 

$350,000. Four semi-finalists will 

compete for a portion of the $100,000 

interim prize and two final stage Solvers 

will compete for a portion of the 

$250,000 final prize. 

Stage I, Ideations: In Stage I, all Solvers 

participating in the Challenge will develop 

ideas for an analytical visualization tool. 

Four Stage I semi-finalists will be invited to 

Stage II as semi-finalists to develop their 

ideations into proofs of concept and compete 

for a cash prize. If a selectee declines to 

participate in the next stage, an alternate may 

be selected. 

Stage II, Concepts: In Stage II, the four 

semi-finalists from Stage I will develop their 

ideations into proofs of concept (i.e., detailed 

system designs and prototypes) for an 

analytical visualization tool. The four semifinalists will compete for part of a $100,000 

prize purse for their proofs of concept. Based 

on review of the Stage II submissions by the 

judges, two of the four semi-finalists will also 

advance to Stage III as finalists. An 

additional semi-finalist may also receive an 

honorable mention, but not advance to Stage 

III. If a selectee declines to participate in the 

next stage, an alternate may be selected. 

•Stage III, Tools: In Stage III, the two 

finalists from Stage II will further develop 

their proofs of concept into full working 

analytical visualization tools. The two 

finalists will compete for a $250,000 prize 

purse, with each receiving a minimum of 

$50,000. The Stage III prize purse will be 

awarded to the winners based on the judges’ 

review of the Stage III submissions. 

Eligible Challenge Participants 

Eligible Solvers are individuals or 

teams from the business and research 

communities in the United States or US 

territory. This includes but is not 

limited to organizations such as: 

technology companies, analytics firms, 

transportation carriers, industry 

associations, research institutions, 

universities, mapping and visualization 

providers. Teams are encouraged to 

organize themselves in a manner that 

best fits meeting the Challenge. 

Challenge Authority 

USDOT will be carrying out this 

challenge prize competition under the 

authority of 15 U.S.C. 3719. 

Challenge Innovation Agents 

Challenge Innovation Agents are 

companies and organizations interested 

in providing real-world knowledge, 

guidance, insight, issues, and data to 

Solvers, especially those new to the 

transportation safety space. USDOT will 

provide a public listing of all 

organizations and companies who 

identify as Challenge Innovation Agents. 

This listing will provide a brief 

description and contact information for 

each Innovation Agent to assist Solvers 

that are interested in talking to or 

partnering with Innovation Agents for 

the Challenge. USDOT will list two 

types of Challenge Innovation Agents: 

Technical Assistance and Data. 

Technical Assistance (T.A.) 

Innovation Agents can provide 

interested Solvers with knowledge, 

guidance, insight and issues related to 

transportation safety. T.A. Innovation 

Agents may be able to provide technical 

assistance related to key safety issues 

impacting their members or employees, 

transportation safety techniques, 

transportation system characteristics, 

users and operations, approaches from 

other industries and sectors. 

Data Innovation Agents can provide 

interested Solvers with access to data or 

analytic techniques that can be used in 

the analytical visualization tools. Use of 

a wide variety of disparate data is 

encouraged to gain insights into 

reducing fatalities and serious injuries 

on the U.S. road and rail systems. 

Challenge Innovation Agents will 

have the opportunity to explain their 

expertise and capacity to interested 

Solvers who will be designing tools that 

can prove useful in furthering the 

Innovation Agents or other user’s efforts 

to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. 

Innovation Agents providing data access 

will benefit from national recognition 

and highlight of their data asset, and the 

exploration and testing of their data by 

Solvers for use by the transportation 

safety community. 

Solvers are encouraged to seek 

support from Innovation Agents to 

strengthen their individual/team 

expertise. Innovation Agents may 

register their support throughout the 

Challenge by signing up at 

www.transportation.gov/Solve4Safety. A 

list of current Innovation Agents will be 

updated on the official Challenge 

website. The Challenge will host a 

webinar to facilitate Solver-Innovation 

Agent relationship building. 

Eligibility Rules for Participating in the 

Competition 

To be eligible to win a prize under 

this Challenge, an individual or entity— 

(1) Shall register to participate in the 

Competition under the rules 

promulgated by the USDOT Bureau of 

Transportation Statistics; 

(2) Shall comply with all the 

requirements under this announcement 

and any subsequently announced rules 

for the competition; 

(3) In the case of a private entity, shall 

be incorporated in and maintain a 

primary place of business in the United 

States or US territory, and in the case of 

an individual, whether participating 

singly or in a group, shall be a citizen 

or permanent resident of the United 

States or US territory; 

(4) Shall not be a USDOT employee; 

and 

(5) Shall not be another federal entity 

or federal employee acting within the 

scope of their employment (all nonUSDOT federal employees must consult 

with their agency Ethics Official to 

determine whether the federal ethics 

rules will limit or prohibit the 

acceptance of a cash prize stemming 

from a federally sponsored prize 

competition); 

In addition, these two restrictions apply 

to recipients of other federal funds: 

(1) Federal grantees may not use 

federal funds to develop submissions 

unless consistent with the purpose of 

their grant award; and 

(2) Federal contractors may not use 

federal funds from a contract to develop 

prize competition applications or to 


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fund efforts in support of a prize 

competition submission; 

An individual or entity shall not be 

deemed ineligible because the 

individual or entity used federal 

facilities or consulted with federal 

employees or USDOT Challenge 

Innovation Agents during a competition 

if the facilities and employees are made 

available to all individuals and entities 

participating in the competition on an 

equitable basis. 

Participants must also agree to assume 

all risks and waive claims against the 

federal government and its related 

entities, except in the case of willful 

misconduct, for any injury, death, 

damage, or loss of property, revenue, or 

profits, whether direct, indirect, or 

consequential, arising from my 

participation in this prize competition, 

whether the injury, death, damage, or 

loss arises through negligence or 

otherwise. 

Participants must also agree to 

indemnify the Federal Government 

against third party claims for damages 

arising from or related to Challenge 

activities. 

If any potential finalist is found to be 

ineligible, has not complied with the 

Official Rules, Terms and Conditions, or 

declines the cash prize for any reason 

prior to award, an alternate finalist may 

be selected. If any potential winner is 

found to be ineligible, has not complied 

with the Official Rules, Terms & 

Conditions, or declines the cash prize 

for any reason prior to award, an 

alternate winner may be selected. Please 

refer to the Official Rules, Terms & 

Conditions for further details. 

Cash prizes awarded under this 

challenge will be paid to the individual 

or Team Lead directly by USDOT 

through electronic funds transfer. 

Finalists and winner(s) will be 

responsible for any applicable local, 

state, and federal taxes and reporting 

that may be required under applicable 

tax laws. 

Solution Submission Materials 

Stage I, Ideation 

To be eligible to win a prize under 

this stage, an individual or entity must 

submit: 

1. A cover page with the following 

information: 

• Team name, participant names, 

organization (s), and primary point of contact 

• Challenge tracks they are solving for: 

• Tools: 

Æ Discover Insights Tool 

Æ Simulation Tool 

• Safety Focus Areas: 

Æ Vulnerable System Users 

Æ Conflict Points 

Æ High Risk Factors 

• Tool End-User: 

Æ Policymakers 

Æ Providers/Operators 

Æ Public 

• Submission title. Proposed name for 

your concept. 

• Submission description. What is the 

headline for your idea? Briefly describe your 

idea, concept and approach. (15 words) 

2. Written Summary of the Solution Idea 

This includes a detailed description of the 

proposed solution idea. Summary should 

discuss in detail the functionality and 

capabilities of the analytical visualization 

tool. The Solver must describe, in a high 

level of technical detail, how the proposed 

solution will meet each of the Solution 

Requirements and the Judging Criteria for 

this stage. The Summary must not exceed the 

character length of the online submission 

form. The Solver should understand that 

their submittal will be reviewed by technical 

experts in transportation safety analysis, 

data, IT and visualization. If the level of 

detail is deemed insufficient by the experts, 

the proposed solution will not be regarded as 

feasible. 

All written work shall be phrased in 

layperson English language. Geospatial, 

visualization, statistical and technical 

terminology, including program coding 

language, shall not be used without 

providing an explanation of terms. 

Solvers should respond to the judging 

criteria specified in the Judging Criteria 

Section. 

3. Information on Qualifications of Your 

Team 

Please include a re ́sume ́ or bio of key 

individual(s) who would be responsible for 

developing the idea into a proof of concept 

with a detailed system design and prototype. 

If you plan to work with a Technical 

Assistance or Data Innovation Agent, please 

indicate which Innovation Agent(s) you are 

or will be working with and their role in tool 

development. 

4. Appendices 

(a) Video of Submission Idea 

Æ Provide a link to a 30 second video of 

solution idea. 

(b) Additional Assets 

Æ If available, upload or link to additional 

research abstracts, presentations, data 

visualizations, or other supporting visual 

information that may help us better 

understand your concept. Accepted upload 

file formats include: .ppt, .pptx, .doc, .docx, 

.pdf, .jpg, .png (50 MB max). 

Note: Stage II and Stage III descriptions are 

preliminary and will be developed further. 

Additional details and submission 

requirements for Stage II and Stage III will be 

provided to Solvers advancing to these stages 

and posted on the Challenge website. 

Stage II, Concepts 

To be eligible to win a prize under 

this stage, an individual or entity must 

be invited to submit a proof of concept 

with a detailed system design and 

prototype. Applicants must provide the 

following as part of the application 

process. 

(1) Written summary of the proof of 

concept with a detailed system design 

and prototype 

Solvers should respond to the judging 

criteria specified in the Judging Criteria 

Section. 

(2) A prototype with a working 

interactive model of the analytical 

visualization tool 

The prototype must provide an idea of 

the proposed design, navigation and 

layout of the tool. It must demonstrate 

the functionality and verify that the 

analytical visualization tool idea and 

concept can be achieved in full 

development. 

(3) A ten-minute live, In-person or 

virtual demo of the prototype 

Stage III, Tools 

To be eligible to win a prize under 

this stage, an individual or entity must 

be invited to submit a full working tool. 

Applicants must provide the following 

as part of the application process. 

(1) Perform a thirty-minute live inperson or virtual demo of the working 

tool 

(2) Provide a written summary of the 

analytical visualization tool 

Solvers should respond to the judging 

criteria specified in the Judging Criteria 

Section. 

(3) Submit complete documentation 

of the tool 

(4) Submit all code and fully 

functioning software and analytical 

visualization tool to USDOT 

Judging Criteria 

Stage I—Ideation Judging Criteria 

These criteria area weighted equally. 

The evaluation panels will consider 

each proposal’s alignment with each of 

these criteria and make 

recommendations to the Under 

Secretary of Transportation for Policy. 

The Under Secretary selects as semifinalists those proposals that best 

advance the purposes of this 

competition, as described in this notice. 

Criteria Applying To All Tools 

• Benefits. Defines a target user or 

demonstrates the potential for users, 

should the tool be developed. Takes into 

consideration inputs from potential 

users. Details appeal and relevance to 

target user and describes method to 

measure benefits. Describes extent to 

which the tool expands upon existing 

safety understanding, generates 

actionable insights for its proposed 

target audience, and has the potential 

for dramatic impacts on transportation 

safety. Addresses the challenges facing 


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broad adoption, and how could they be 

overcome. 

• Data. Identifies data requirements 

and appropriately handles uncertainty. 

Describes a new, original idea that 

integrates data in an unprecedented and 

novel way or enhances understanding of 

the data. Explains what risks or 

challenges exist for accessing and/or 

using the data, and how could they be 

overcome. Proposes using cost-effective 

data. Details an appropriate use of the 

data for the analytical visualization tool 

in supporting insight discovery and for 

the message of the visualization. 

• Technology. Discusses existing 

technologies and describes how the 

proposed tool differs from current 

technologies. Details the features of the 

tool and how they can be accessed and 

understood by the maximum possible 

number of users. Describes a wide range 

of accessibility and uptake for target 

users by using technology that can 

easily be deployed and maintained. 

Proposes using cost-effective 

technologies. 

• Cost to Implement. Provides a clear 

schedule for project implementation, 

monitoring, and evaluation. Includes 

initial estimates of data input and 

operating costs and includes five-year 

maintenance estimates for 

implementing and potentially scaling 

the tool. Describes how the benefits of 

the proposed tool outweigh the costs of 

end-users obtaining the data, 

technology, skills and resources 

necessary to implement and sustain the 

tool. 

Criteria Applying to Only Discover 

Insights Tool 

• Insights. Provides an innovative 

plan and project narrative that describes 

how the proposed tool will reveal 

insights to a solution. Details the tool’s 

unique differentiating factor for 

reducing serious crashes. Identifies and 

addresses one or more of the priority 

safety focus areas. Exemplifies potential 

for raising awareness about 

transportation safety and for possible 

solutions to transportation safety 

challenges. 

Criteria Applying to Only Simulation 

Tool 

• Simulation. Provides an innovative 

plan and project narrative that describes 

how the proposed tool will allow users 

to simulate different conditions from 

models. Describes the capacity to 

customize the tool based on different 

scenarios from models. Details the 

accuracy and precision the tool will 

perform at in visualizing a variety of 

scenarios from models. Identifies and 

addresses one or more of the priority 

safety focus areas. Exemplifies potential 

for raising awareness about 

transportation safety and for possible 

solutions to transportation safety 

challenges. 

Note: Stage II and Stage III judging criteria 

are preliminary. Final judging criteria for 

Stages II and III will be provided to Solvers 

advancing to these stages and posted on the 

Challenge website. 

Stage II—Concepts Judging Criteria 

• Technical Approach. Demonstrates 

a high-level of technical merit for the 

proposed approach to accessing and 

analyzing the data and designing the 

tool. 

• Design and Desirability. 

Demonstrates how the interface and 

visualization meet the needs of users. 

Shows how it could simplify their work 

or inform their decisions and, how will 

it appeal to them based on intuitive 

design and ease of use. 

• Analytical Depth. Considers a 

variety of data sources and application 

of an appropriate analysis technique. 

• Technology Transfer Readiness 

Level and Feasibility. Demonstrates a 

reasonable path for implementation and 

production, and a clear method for 

validating data with a high degree of 

confidence backed by credible 

supporting evidence. Uses technology 

that USDOT or the public sector can 

easily deploy. Provides clear breakdown 

of data input costs and operating and 

maintenance costs. 

• Scalability. Offers a plan as to how 

the system could be expanded to other 

geographic areas, to different safety 

data, or to other scenarios of concern for 

transportation safety. Demonstrates 

scalability of tool and data. 

• Team. Demonstrates significant 

evolution and improvement of the 

initial Ideation through additional 

specifics and refinement of concept. 

Exemplifies the commitment and ability 

to bring the full working analytical 

visualization tool design to fruition. 

Stage III—Tools Judging Criteria 

• Quality of Methods. The degree to 

which the team has shown the research 

that they have undertaken to lead them 

to their technology idea, understood the 

category they have chosen and is a 

revolutionary way to analyze and 

visualize that data type. 

• Sustainability. The extent to which 

the submission illustrates a plan to 

maintain consistent long-term access to 

the Analytical Visualization Tool for 

local-level or national-level decisionmakers, and adequately addresses 

potential constraints and possible 

unintended consequences of the tool’s 

use. 

• Functionality and Technical 

Effectiveness. The ability of the final 

product to provide significant insights 

or visualize scenario analyses. The level 

of speed, sensitivity and precision 

(completeness and usefulness) of the 

results based on the safety problems 

posed in the Challenge. 

• Expected Return on Investment. 

The benefits of the tool as compared to 

the data input and operating and 

maintenance costs for implementing 

and potentially scaling the tool. 

Deadlines for Submitting Proposals 

USDOT will accept Stage I Ideation 

submissions that are received no later 

than 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 31, 2018. 

Confidential and Business Information 

Responses to the Challenge 

solicitation and communication with 

USDOT are subject to the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA). If the 

application includes information that 

the applicant considers to be a trade 

secret or confidential commercial or 

financial information, the proposer 

should do the following: (1) Note on the 

front cover that the submission 

‘‘Contains Confidential Business 

Information (CBI)’’; (2) mark each 

affected page ‘‘CBI’’; and (3) highlight or 

otherwise denote the CBI portions. 

USDOT protects such information from 

disclosure to the extent allowed under 

applicable law. In the event USDOT 

receives a FOIA request for the 

information, USDOT will follow the 

procedures described in its FOIA 

regulations at 49 CFR 7.17. Only 

information that is ultimately 

determined to be confidential under that 

procedure will be exempt from 

disclosure under FOIA. USDOT may 

proactively publish any application 

information that is not marked as CBI. 

Representation, Warranties, and 

Indemnification 

By entering the Challenge, each 

applicant represents, warrants and 

covenants as follows: 

• Participant is the sole author, 

creator, and owner of the Submission; 

• The Submission is not the subject of 

any actual or threatened litigation or 

claim; 

• The Submission does not and will 

not violate or infringe upon the 

intellectual property rights, privacy 

rights, publicity rights, or other legal 

rights of any third party; 

• The Submission does not and will 

not contain any harmful computer code 

(sometimes referred to as ‘‘malware,’’ 

‘‘viruses,’’ or ‘‘worms’’); and 

• The Submission, and contestants’ 

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not violate any applicable laws or 

regulations, including, without 

limitation, HIPAA, or applicable export 

control laws and regulations of the U.S. 

and other jurisdictions. 

Contestants must indemnify, defend, 

and hold harmless the Federal 

Government from and against all thirdparty claims, actions, or proceedings of 

any kind and from any and all damages, 

liabilities, costs, and expenses relating 

to or arising from participant’s 

submission or any breach or alleged 

breach of any of the representations, 

warranties, and covenants of participant 

hereunder. Contestants are financially 

responsible for claims made by a third 

party. 

USDOT reserves the right to 

disqualify any submission that it deems, 

in its discretion, to violate these Official 

Rules, Terms & Conditions. 

Intellectual Property (IP) of 

Submissions 

As part of their acceptance of the 

Stage I prize, each semi-finalist grants to 

USDOT and its designees a worldwide, 

non-exclusive, sub-licensable, 

transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, 

perpetual, irrevocable right to use, 

reproduce, distribute, modify, create 

derivative works, publicly perform, 

publicly display, digitally perform, 

make, have made, distribute and import 

their Stage I submission and other data 

submitted, in any media now known or 

hereafter developed, for any purpose 

whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, 

without further approval by or payment 

to the semi-finalist, and represents that 

he/she/it has the unrestricted right to 

grant that license. Furthermore, the 

semi-finalist grants the government and 

its designees a worldwide, nonexclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, 

fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, 

irrevocable, unlimited rights to the 

government or its designees to apply or 

utilize the submission, modified 

submission, or derivative work with 

other data not owned by the semifinalist and that all resulting data output 

is available to the government for 

unlimited use. 

Note: Stage II and Stage III intellectual 

property terms are preliminary. Final 

intellectual property terms for Stages II and 

III will be provided to Solvers advancing to 

these stages and posted on the Challenge 

website. 

As part of their acceptance of the 

Stage II cash prize, each Finalist grants 

to USDOT and its designees a 

worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable, fully paid-up, 

royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right 

to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, 

create derivative works, publicly 

perform, publicly display, digitally 

perform, make, have made, distribute 

and import their Stage II submission 

and other data submitted, in any media 

now known or hereafter developed, for 

any purpose whatsoever, commercial or 

otherwise, without further approval by 

or payment to the Finalist, and 

represents that he/she/it has the 

unrestricted right to grant that license. 

Furthermore, the Finalist grants the 

government and its designees a 

worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable, fully paid-up, 

royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, 

unlimited rights to the government or its 

designees to apply or utilize the 

submission, modified submission, or 

derivative work with other data not 

owned by the Finalist and that all 

resulting data output is available to the 

government for unlimited use. 

As part of their acceptance of the 

Stage III cash prize, each Winner grants 

to USDOT and its designees a 

worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable, fully paid-up, 

royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right 

to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, 

create derivative works, publicly 

perform, publicly display, digitally 

perform, make, have made, distribute 

and import their Stage III submission 

and other data submitted, in any media 

now known or hereafter developed, for 

any purpose whatsoever, commercial or 

otherwise, without further approval by 

or payment to the Winner, and 

represents that he/she/it has the 

unrestricted right to grant that license. 

Furthermore, the Winner grants the 

government and its designees a 

worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable, fully paid-up, 

royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, 

unlimited rights to the government or its 

designees to apply or utilize the 

submission, modified submission, or 

derivative work with other data not 

owned by the Finalist and that all 

resulting data output is available to the 

government for unlimited use. 

For more information, and to register 

your intent to compete as a Solver or to 

commit your support of the Challenge as 

an Innovation Agent, visit 

www.transportation.gov/Solve4Safety. 

Issued on: June 11, 2018. 

Derek Kan, 

USDOT Under Secretary for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12795 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) is publishing the names 

of one or more persons that have been 

placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated 

Nationals and Blocked Persons List 

based on OFAC’s determination that one 

or more applicable legal criteria were 

satisfied. All property and interests in 

property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of 

these persons are blocked, and U.S. 

persons are generally prohibited from 

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Notice of OFAC Actions 

On May 24, 2018, OFAC determined 

that the property and interests in 

property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of 

the following persons are blocked under 

the relevant sanctions authorities listed 

below. 

Individuals 

1. YEGANE, Gulnihal (a.k.a. YEGANE 

AKSIT, Gulnihal; a.k.a. YEGANE, 

Gulnihal Kulak), Merkez Mah. Hasat 

Sok. No. 52/6 Sisli, Istanbul 21344, 

Turkey; Egs Bloklari B–1 Blok K.1 No: 

114, Yesilkoy-Bakirkoy, Istanbul, 

Turkey; DOB 15 Sep 1975; POB 

Karabuk, Kula, Turkey; alt. POB Manisa, 

Kula, Turkey; nationality Turkey; 

Additional Sanctions Information— 

Subject to Secondary Sanctions; Gender 

Female; Passport 791029 (Turkey); 

National ID No. 27224237098 (Turkey) 

(individual) [SDGT] [IFSR] (Linked To: 

MAHAN AIR). 


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