FHWA has announced recipients of $8.8M in AID Demonstration grants, funding 10 projects in eight states plus the District of Columbia to deploy transportation innovations that enhance safety and save time, money, and resources.

These grants, which can also be used for other innovative transportation technologies such as ultra-high-performance concrete to digital mapping programs, are provided by FHWA’s Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration program.

The AID Demonstration Program provides incentive grants and other resources to offset the risk of implementing a transportation innovation. The incentive funding, distributed through a competitive discretionary grant process, allows tribal governments, state DOTs, federal land management agencies, and local governments to accelerate the implementation and adoption of innovation in highway transportation and demonstrate state-of-the-art technologies.

Winner's Spotlight: Arizona

AZDOT received $970K for their “Next Generation Freeway & Arterial Work Zones” project that will deploy smart work zone technologies that share real-time data from active construction areas to improve agency monitoring, enhance worker safety, and improve traveler information tools.

AID Grant awards are one of many topics covered in the January/February 2024 issue of FHWA's Innovator Magazine, now in its 100th issue. Other articles include:

• Innovator Reaches 100th Issue Milestone
• The Power of Demonstration: Celebrating 10 Years of Deploying Innovative Technologies and Practices
• STIC: A Decade of Helping Move Innovative Solutions into Everyday Practice

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