The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a Broad Agency announcement (BAA) soliciting proposals that address Exploratory Advanced Research topics.  The Broad Agency Announcement (number DTFH61-13-R-00011) is open through March 15, 2013.  The announcement includes the following topics

• Topic 1A, High Performance Vehicle Streams;
• Topic 1B, New Approaches for Testing Connected Highway and Vehicle Systems;
• Topic 1C, Innovative Applications for Emerging Real‐Time Data;
• Topic 1D, Partial Automation for Truck Platooning;
• Topic 2A, Automated Feature Extraction; and
• Topic 2B, Automated Identity Masking.
  
  

For a full description of the topics and proposal requirements, please see the announcement posted at https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=792b797bee5d98c165b9271b9855b152&tab=core&_cview=0.

Researchers from EAR Program supported projects participated in a National Science Foundation invitation-only workshop on “Developing Dependable and Secure Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems from Components.” The workshop held in Troy, Michigan on March 17-18 will provide information on how research of cyber-physical systems can improve safety, mobility, and fuel efficiency. Cyber-physical systems integrate in-vehicle, infrastructure-based, and combined vehicle-infrastructure hardware and software component systems. For more information about the workshop, please see http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/exit.cfm?link=http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/Auto-CPS-2011/Index.html

In 2009, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) hosted a workshop to identify interests and capabilities for nanoscale research that can be applied to highway industry subject matters. The workshop brought together FHWA technical experts with those from University Transportation Centers, Federal laboratories, and other organizations, which are conducting relevant nanoscale research. The information and thoughts shared at the workshop will shape the scope of FHWA's further investment in nanoscale research through an open solicitation, interagency agreement, or other appropriate mechanisms. The workshop supports the development of strategic roadmaps and outlines funding needs for nanoscale work that could lead to enhanced capabilities and longer term partnerships along specific lines of nanoscale investigations relevant to highway research. The FHWA Exploratory Advanced Research Program coordinated the workshop. [more]

Highway transportation research is collecting and analyzing an increasing amount of video data. While the research community is fortunate to be able to collect more and better data, the amount of data has the potential to overwhelm the capacity to assess the data using current methods. [More]