About UTC
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act, enacted on August 10, 2005, authorized up to $76.7 million per year from Federal FY2005-2009 funds for grants to establish and operate up to 60 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) throughout the United States. Twenty of these centers were competitively selected during 2006, and forty centers are located at institutions named in the legislation.
The following documents offer detailed information on the requirements of the UTC program.
The UTC program is managed by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
UTC History
The University Transportation Centers (UTC) program, initiated in 1987 under the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, authorized the establishment and operation of transportation centers in each of the 10 standard federal regions. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) reauthorized the UTCs for an additional six years and added four national centers and six University Research institutes (URI). The mission of the 14 UTCs was to advance U.S. expertise and technology transfer. The six URIs each had a specific transportation research and development mandate.
In 1998 the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) reauthorized the UTC Program for an additional six years and increased the total number of Centers to 33. In addition to the ten regional Centers, which were to be selected competitively, TEA-21 created 23 other Centers at institutions named in the Act. TEA-21 established education as one of the primary objectives of a University Transportation Center and institutionalized the use of strategic planning in university grant management.
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