{"id":2755,"date":"2022-09-22T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2022-09-22T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:35:37","slug":"new-500-m-in-grants-for-transportation-tech-for-local-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-500-m-in-grants-for-transportation-tech-for-local-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"New $500 M in grants for transportation tech for local governments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? The federal Infrastructure law of 2021 included $500 million in grants under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/grants\/SMART\">SMART Program<\/a>, Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation. Entities that can apply include: States, local governments, tribes, toll authorities, \u00a0transit agencies, and metropolitan planning organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The program will include $100 million in grants annually for 5 years &amp; is tech forward. The goal is to fund projects &#8220;that show how technology like autonomous vehicles, roadside sensors and aerial drones.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? The tech projects are designed to reduce traffic congestion, crashes and commute times to jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/infrastructure\/2022\/09\/feds-prepare-open-new-500m-program-transportation-tech-projects\/377245\/\">Route Fifty | Feds Prepare to Open New $500M Program for Transportation Tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? The federal Infrastructure law of 2021 included $500 million in grants under the SMART Program, Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation. Entities that can apply include: States, local governments, tribes, toll authorities, \u00a0transit agencies, and metropolitan planning organizations.\u00a0 Why is this important? The program will include $100 million in grants annually for 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}