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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1809 

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish the Strengthening 

Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Challenge Grant 

Program to promote technological innovation in our Nation’s cities. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 

Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. BURR) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish the 

Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Challenge Grant Program to promote 

technological innovation in our Nation’s cities. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Moving and Fostering 

5 Innovation to Revolutionize Smarter Transportation Act’’ 

6 or the ‘‘Moving FIRST Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

8 Congress makes the following findings: 


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1 (1) Beyond Traffic 2045, a comprehensive as2 sessment of the national transportation system re3 cently published by the Department of Transpor4 tation, identified transportation trends that need to 

5 be proactively addressed, including— 

6 (A) the population of the United States 

7 will increase by 70,000,000 during the 30-year 

8 period ending in 2045; 

9 (B) emerging megaregions could absorb 75 

10 percent of the United States population by 

11 2050; 

12 (C) freight volume will increase by more 

13 than 40 percent by 2045; 

14 (D) Americans are currently stuck in traf15 fic for more than 42 hours each year, on aver16 age; 

17 (E) the current annual cost of congestion 

18 in delays and lost fuel amounts to 

19 $160,000,000,000; 

20 (F) 96 people die in motor vehicle crashes 

21 in the United States every day, on average, and 

22 nearly 6,700 are injured per day; and 

23 (G) connected vehicles and new crash 

24 avoidance technology could potentially address 


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1 81 percent of crashes involving unimpaired 

2 drivers. 

3 (2) According to the Department of Transpor4 tation, in 2015— 

5 (A) traffic crash-related deaths increased 

6 by more than 7 percent compared to 2014; 

7 (B) pedestrian fatalities increased by more 

8 than 9 percent compared to 2014; and 

9 (C) pedalcyclist fatalities increased by 

10 more than 12 percent compared to 2014. 

11 (3) In 2015, the Secretary of Transportation 

12 created the Smart City Challenge to assist cities in 

13 addressing the challenges facing our Nation’s trans14 portation system through innovative and creative 

15 means, utilizing both the public and the private sec16 tors. 

17 (4) By asking American cities to use emerging 

18 transportation technologies to address their most 

19 pressing problems, the Smart City Challenge aimed 

20 to spark and spread innovation through a mixture of 

21 collaboration, competition, and experimentation. 

22 (5) The following outcomes were expected from 

23 the original Smart City Challenge and are expected 

24 to result from the SMART grants awarded under 

25 this Act: 


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1 (A) Improved safety from the use of ad2 vanced technologies, including connected vehicle 

3 technologies, to reduce the number of collisions, 

4 fatalities, and injuries for vehicle occupants and 

5 nonvehicle occupants. 

6 (B) Enhanced mobility by providing 

7 realtime traveler information and emerging mo8 bility services to improve personal mobility for 

9 all citizens including people with lower incomes, 

10 people with disabilities, and older adults. 

11 (C) Enhanced ladders of opportunity by— 

12 (i) providing access to advanced tech13 nology and its benefits for underserved 

14 areas and residents; 

15 (ii) increasing connectivity to employ16 ment, education, and other services; and 

17 (iii) contributing to revitalization by 

18 incentivized reinvestment in underserved 

19 communities. 

20 (D) Reduction in pollution by imple21 menting advanced technologies and policies that 

22 support a more sustainable and cost-effective 

23 relationship between transportation and the en24 vironment through more efficient fuel use and 

25 emissions reductions. 


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1 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

2 In this Act: 

3 (1) ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.—The term ‘‘eligible 

4 applicant’’ means a large city, a mid-sized city, a 

5 rural community, or a regional partnership. 

6 (2) LARGE CITY.—The term ‘‘large city’’ means 

7 a beneficiary city with a population between 400,000 

8 and 1,000,000, according to the Census Bureau’s 

9 most recent annual estimates of resident population. 

10 (3) MID-SIZED CITY.—The term ‘‘mid-sized 

11 city’’ means a beneficiary city with a population be12 tween 75,000 and 400,000, according to the Census 

13 Bureau’s most recent annual estimates of resident 

14 population. 

15 (4) MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL GROUP.—The term 

16 ‘‘multi-jurisdictional group’’ means a beneficiary 

17 composed of two or more combination of States, 

18 tribal governments, local governments, public transit 

19 agencies, public toll authorities, or metropolitan 

20 planning agencies, each of which is eligible to apply 

21 for a SMART grant under section 4. 

22 (5) REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘re23 gional partnership’’ means a group of two or more 

24 jurisdictions with a combined population between 

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1 ulation, which have entered into a partnership to 

2 apply for a SMART grant under section 4. 

3 (6) RURAL COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘rural 

4 community’’ means a beneficiary jurisdiction with a 

5 population between 10,000 and 75,000 people, not 

6 located within an urbanized area or cluster, accord7 ing to the Census Bureau’s most recent annual esti8 mates of resident population. 

9 (7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

10 the Secretary of Transportation. 

11 (8) STRENGTHENING MOBILITY AND REVOLU12 TIONIZING TRANSPORTATION GRANT; SMART

13 GRANT.—The terms ‘‘Strengthening Mobility and 

14 Revolutionizing Transportation grant’’ and 

15 ‘‘SMART grant’’ means a grant awarded to an eligi16 ble applicant under section 4. 

17 SEC. 4. SMART GRANT PROGRAM. 

18 (a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—During each of the fiscal 

19 years 2019 through 2023, the Secretary is authorized to 

20 award— 

21 (1) one SMART grant of not less than 

22 $30,000,000 or more than $50,000,000 to an appli23 cant on behalf of a large city to carry out an eligible 

24 project; 


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1 (2) one SMART grant of not less than 

2 $30,000,000 or more than $50,000,000 to an appli3 cant on behalf of a mid-sized city to carry out an 

4 eligible project; and 

5 (3) two SMART grants, totaling not more than 

6 the greater of $20,000,000 or 20 percent of the 

7 amount appropriated pursuant to section 6(a) for 

8 the fiscal year, to applicants on behalf of rural com9 munities or regional partnerships to carry out eligi10 ble projects. 

11 (b) APPLICATION PROCESS.— 

12 (1) IN GENERAL.—An eligible applicant may 

13 apply for a grant under this section by submitting 

14 an application to the Secretary at such time, in such 

15 manner, and containing such information as the Sec16 retary may reasonably require to evaluate the merits 

17 of the proposed project in accordance with the selec18 tion criteria set forth in subsection (c). 

19 (2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 

20 (A) STATE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPOR21 TATION.—Eligible rural and regional partner22 ship applicants are strongly encouraged to seek 

23 technical assistance from the department of 

24 transportation in their respective States during 

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1 mentation of a project that is awarded a 

2 SMART grant, as applicable. 

3 (B) FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANS4 PORTATION.—The Secretary, after reviewing all 

5 of the applications for SMART grants sub6 mitted in a fiscal year under paragraphs (1), 

7 (2), and (3) of subsection (a), shall— 

8 (i) provide not fewer than 2 applicants 

9 from each of the 3 groups of applicants 

10 that submitted applications deemed supe11 rior by the Secretary with limited technical 

12 assistance to improve their respective ap13 plications; and 

14 (ii) allow such applicants to resubmit 

15 their improved applications before deter16 mining which applicants will receive a 

17 SMART grant in such fiscal year. 

18 (3) MULTIPLE GRANTS.—An eligible applicant 

19 may not be awarded more than one SMART grant 

20 during the duration of the SMART Grant Program. 

21 (c) SELECTION CRITERIA.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—A panel of experts from the 

23 Department of Transportation, including representa24 tives from the applicable subagencies within the De25 partment, shall evaluate applications for SMART 


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1 grants based on the applicable criteria described in 

2 paragraphs (2) through (4). 

3 (2) APPLICANT READINESS.—The panel re4 ferred to in paragraph (1) shall determine the extent 

5 to which the applicant or beneficiary city— 

6 (A) has a dense urban population typical 

7 for a large or mid-sized American city; 

8 (B) represents more than 15 percent of the 

9 population of the census-designated place in 

10 which it is located, according to the Census Bu11 reau’s most recent annual estimates of resident 

12 population; 

13 (C) has a public transportation system or 

14 other transit options committed to integrating 

15 with the sharing economy, and is considering 

16 options to reduce the frequency of single occu17 pancy vehicles; 

18 (D) has an environment that is conducive 

19 to demonstrating proposed strategies; 

20 (E) has continuity of committed leadership 

21 and capacity to carry out the proposed project; 

22 (F) is committed to making open, ma23 chine-readable data accessible, discoverable, and 

24 usable by the public, in a secure fashion, to fuel 

25 entrepreneurship and innovation; and 


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1 (G) is likely to successfully implement the 

2 project, including technical and financial com3 mitments from public and private sectors, and 

4 its functional capability to perform. 

5 (3) EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND

6 PROJECT BENEFITS.—The panel shall determine the 

7 extent to which the proposed project will use ad8 vanced data and intelligent transportation systems 

9 technologies and applications to provide significant 

10 benefits to a local area, a State, a region, or the 

11 United States, including the extent to which the 

12 project will— 

13 (A) reduce congestion and delays for com14 merce and the traveling public; 

15 (B) improve the safety of transportation 

16 facilities and systems for pedestrians and the 

17 traveling public; 

18 (C) provide access to jobs, education, and 

19 essential services, including health care; 

20 (D) connect underserved populations and 

21 reduce their transportation costs; 

22 (E) contribute to medium- and long-term 

23 economic competitiveness; 

24 (F) improve the condition of existing 

25 transportation facilities and systems; 


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1 (G) promote connectivity between the pub2 lic and transportation systems; 

3 (H) use innovative strategies or tech4 nologies to pursue any of the primary selection 

5 criteria; 

6 (I) demonstrate strong collaboration 

7 among a broad range of participants, including 

8 the private sector, or the integration of trans9 portation with other public service efforts; 

10 (J) improve the environment, improve en11 ergy efficiency, reduce dependence on oil, or re12 duce pollution; and 

13 (K) address issues identified by the De14 partment of Transportation in the Beyond 

15 Traffic 2045 report. 

16 (d) USE OF GRANT FUNDS.— 

17 (1) VISION ELEMENTS.—A SMART grant may 

18 be used for a project that demonstrates a sound, in19 novative, integrated, and holistic approach and in20 corporates many aspects of the applicable vision ele21 ments set forth in this paragraph. 

22 (A) COORDINATED AUTOMATION.—The use 

23 of automated transportation and autonomous 

24 vehicles, which offer tremendous possibilities for 


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1 enhancing safety, mobility, accessibility, equity, 

2 and the environment. 

3 (B) CONNECTED VEHICLES.—Connected 

4 vehicles, which send and receive information 

5 about their movements in the network, use vehi6 cle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure com7 munications to provide connectivity that will en8 able countless safety, mobility, and environ9 mental applications. 

10 (C) INTELLIGENT, SENSOR BASED INFRA11 STRUCTURE.—The use of a collective intelligent 

12 infrastructure allows sensors to collect and re13 port real-time data to inform every day trans14 portation-related operations and performance 

15 and trends of a city, ensuring that data collec16 tion and dissemination is conducted in a safe, 

17 secure manner. 

18 (D) ARCHITECTURE AND STANDARDS.— 

19 The explicit use of architectures, which— 

20 (i) are governed by rules, documenta21 tion, and standards; 

22 (ii) may be extended to a nationwide 

23 or broader deployment; 

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1 tems with other systems which comprise a 

2 smart city; and 

3 (iv) include a description of the re4 quired interfaces to other systems that uti5 lize existing networking or other standards, 

6 if available, and any new standards that 

7 may be needed. 

8 (E) LOW COST, EFFICIENT, SECURE, AND

9 RESILIENT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICA10 TIONS TECHNOLOGY.—Strategies and practices 

11 that advance information and communications 

12 technology that is affordable, adaptable, effi13 cient, secure and resilient, including integrated 

14 telecommunications platforms, enterprise soft15 ware, storage, and visualization systems. 

16 (F) SMART LAND USE.—Strategies and 

17 practices that ensure land use is efficiently opti18 mized through a combination of planning and 

19 innovation deployments, altogether designed to 

20 lead to a better connected community that ex21 pands the range of transportation choices and 

22 access to employment, housing, education and 

23 health services. 

24 (G) COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICS.—The 

25 development of platforms for understanding and 


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1 analyzing data to address complex challenges, 

2 including personal safety and mobility, network 

3 efficiency, and environmental sustainability, and 

4 measuring the performance of a transportation 

5 network. 

6 (H) USER-FOCUSED MOBILITY SERVICES

7 AND CHOICES.—Strategies, initiatives, and serv8 ices that increase transportation choices and 

9 options by supporting and improving mobility 

10 for all travelers, including aging Americans and 

11 persons with disabilities and advanced traveler 

12 information systems that provide real-time traf13 fic, transit, parking, and other transportation14 related information to travelers. 

15 (I) COMMERCE DELIVERY AND LOGIS16 TICS.—Innovative solutions supporting efficient 

17 goods movement in ways that use data or de18 ploy technology to create opportunities for a 

19 more efficient supply chain approach that deliv20 ers safer logistics management, improved on21 time pickups and delivery, improved travel time 

22 reliability, reduced fuel consumption, and re23 duced labor and vehicle maintenance costs. 

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1 tegic partnerships that draw in stakeholders, in2 cluding private sector, nonprofit, foundation, 

3 philanthropic, academia, and other public agen4 cies, to advance SMART grant solutions. 

5 (K) SMART GRID, ROADWAY ELEC6 TRIFICATION, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES.— 

7 Strategies and initiatives that leverage the 

8 smart grid (a programmable and efficient en9 ergy transmission and distribution system) in 

10 an effort to support the adoption or expansion 

11 of roadway electrification, and electric vehicle 

12 deployment. Interactions between electric vehi13 cles and intelligent transportation systems with 

14 the smart grid should be explored and utilized. 

15 (L) SYNCHRONIZATION OF TECH16 NOLOGY.—Strategies and initiatives that utilize 

17 technology to enhance public interaction with 

18 transportation systems and increase intermodal 

19 efficiency, such as broadband or Wi-Fi access. 

20 (M) CONNECTED, INVOLVED CITIZENS.— 

21 Strategies, local campaigns, and processes to 

22 proactively engage and inform citizens at the 

23 individual level by deploying hardware, soft24 ware, and open data platforms in an effort to 

25 increase personal mobility. 


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1 (2) ELIGIBLE PROJECT COSTS.—A SMART 

2 grant may be used for— 

3 (A) development phase activities, including 

4 a reasonable amount of funding, as determined 

5 by the Secretary, for— 

6 (i) planning; 

7 (ii) feasibility analysis; 

8 (iii) revenue forecasting; 

9 (iv) environmental review; 

10 (v) permitting; 

11 (vi) preliminary engineering and de12 sign work; 

13 (vii) systems development or informa14 tion technology work; and 

15 (viii) other preconstruction activities; 

16 and 

17 (B) construction phase activities, includ18 ing— 

19 (i) construction; 

20 (ii) reconstruction; 

21 (iii) rehabilitation; 

22 (iv) replacement; 

23 (v) acquisition of real property (in24 cluding land related to the eligible project 

25 and improvements to land); 


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1 (vi) environmental mitigation; 

2 (vii) construction contingencies; and 

3 (viii) acquisition of equipment, includ4 ing vehicles. 

5 (3) PROHIBITED USE OF GRANT FUNDS.— 

6 SMART grants may not be used— 

7 (A) to reimburse any pre-award costs or 

8 application preparation costs under the pro9 posed project application; or 

10 (B) for traffic or parking enforcement ac11 tivities. 

12 (e) TRANSPARENCY.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall include, 

14 in any notice of funding availability, a full descrip15 tion of how applications will be evaluated against the 

16 criteria set forth in subsection (c). 

17 (2) CONSULTATIONS ON DECISIONS.—After all 

18 SMART grants have been awarded for a fiscal year, 

19 the Secretary (or the Secretary’s designee) shall be 

20 available to meet with any unsuccessful applicant, at 

21 a time and place that is mutually acceptable to the 

22 Secretary and the applicant, to review the applica23 tion of the applicant. 

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1 OUT PROPOSED SMART GRANT PROJECTS.—Notwith2 standing any other provision of law, an eligible applicant 

3 for a SMART grant under this section may submit an ap4 plication for projects outlined in the applicant’s SMART 

5 grant application to seek Federal financial assistance for 

6 the proposed transportation project through— 

7 (1) the Transportation Investment Generating 

8 Economic Recovery grant program (commonly 

9 known as ‘‘TIGER’’); 

10 (2) the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America 

11 grant program (commonly known as ‘‘INFRA’’); 

12 (3) the Transportation Infrastructure Finance 

13 and Innovation program established under chapter 6 

14 of title 23, United States Code (commonly known as 

15 ‘‘TIFIA’’); or 

16 (4) the Advanced Transportation and Conges17 tion Management Technologies Deployment Program 

18 established under section 503(c)(4) of title 23, 

19 United States Code (commonly known as 

20 ‘‘ATCMTD’’). 

21 SEC. 5. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 

22 (a) REPORT TO SECRETARY.—Not later than 2 years 

23 after the date on which a SMART grant recipient receives 

24 a grant under section 4, and annually thereafter until such 


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1 grant is expended, the recipient shall submit an implemen2 tation report to the Secretary that describes— 

3 (1) the deployment and operational costs com4 pared to the benefits and savings from the project; 

5 and 

6 (2) how the project has met the original expec7 tation as projected in the deployment plan submitted 

8 with the application, including— 

9 (A) data on how the program— 

10 (i) has helped reduce traffic crashes, 

11 congestion, and costs; 

12 (ii) has improved access to jobs, edu13 cation, or essential services; and 

14 (iii) has provided other benefits 

15 through deployed systems; 

16 (B) data on the effect of measuring and 

17 improving transportation system performance 

18 through the deployment of advanced tech19 nologies; 

20 (C) the effectiveness of providing real-time 

21 integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal 

22 transportation information to the public to 

23 make informed travel decisions; and 

24 (D) lessons learned and recommendations 

25 for future deployment strategies to optimize 


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1 transportation efficiency and multimodal system 

2 performance. 

3 (b) GAO BIENNIAL REVIEWS.—Not later than 2 

4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and bien5 nially thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United 

6 States shall conduct a review of the SMART grant selec7 tion process and submit a report containing the results 

8 of such review to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

9 and Transportation of the Senate, the Committee on En10 ergy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and 

11 the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of 

12 the House of Representatives. 

13 (c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year 

14 after the annual awarding of grants under section 4, the 

15 Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Com16 merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the 

17 Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 

18 Representatives, and the Committee on Transportation 

19 and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that 

20 describes the effectiveness of SMART grant recipients in 

21 meeting their projected deployment plan, including data 

22 on how the projects funded by such grants or by other 

23 Department of Transportation financial assistance de24 scribed in section 4(f) have— 


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1 (1) reduced traffic-related fatalities and inju2 ries; 

3 (2) reduced traffic congestion and improved 

4 travel time reliability; 

5 (3) reduced transportation-related emissions; 

6 (4) optimized multimodal system performance; 

7 (5) improved access to transportation alter8 natives; 

9 (6) implemented technological innovation to in10 crease efficiency with regards to intermodal commu11 nication, energy consumption, information and com12 munications technology, and personal mobility; 

13 (7) provided the public with access to real-time 

14 integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transpor15 tation information to make informed travel deci16 sions; 

17 (8) provided cost savings to transportation 

18 agencies, businesses, and the traveling public; 

19 (9) provided other benefits to transportation 

20 users and the general public; 

21 (10) reduced barriers to various essential serv22 ices; and 

23 (11) utilized partnerships with the private sec24 tor. 


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1 SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro3 priated to the Department of Transportation 

4 $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2019 through 

5 2023 to carry out this Act, of which— 

6 (1) 80 percent shall be used for SMART grants 

7 to large cities and mid-sized cities under paragraphs 

8 (1) and (2) of section 4(a); and 

9 (2) 20 percent shall be used for SMART grants 

10 to rural communities or regional partnerships under 

11 section 4(a)(3). 

12 (b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated for a fis13 cal year pursuant to this section shall be available for obli14 gation during the 2-year period beginning on the first day 

15 of the fiscal year for which they were appropriated. 

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