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MDOT receives $358.5K for roadway safety improvements
Listen to this articleThe Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration will receive $358,500 from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to develop and implement a data analytics and visualization dashboard using mobile device location data and electric scooter trip data available from the city of Baltimore to better understand pedestrian, bicycle and electric scooter travel volumes and their exposure to risk.
The money is part USDOT’s delivery of $3.3 million in cooperative funding agreements through the Safety Data Initiative to state, local, and tribal governments announced Wednesday to develop and deploy innovative data tools and information to improve roadway safety.
The Department’s Safety Data Initiative helps communities devise policies to reduce roadway fatalities. This funding advances the Department’s efforts to develop, refine, and deploy safety tools that address specific roadway safety problems.
The funding complements existing safety data improvement programs at the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration by focusing on improving data tools practitioners use to inform their policy and decision-making.
DOT issued the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Safety Data Initiative in November 2019. In response to the NOFO, the Department received 40 eligible project proposals totaling nearly $15 million.
