The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) is the Regional University Transportation Center (UTC) for Federal Region 10, housed at University of Washington (UW). In June of 2023, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), or Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), awarded PacTrans its fourth competitive grant of $15 million over 5 years. With that award, PSU joined PacTrans. The center is a mobility focused University Transportation Center with a theme of, “developing human-centered and transformative multimodal mobility solutions for an equitable Pacific Northwest.” PSU’s participation in PacTrans is managed by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC).

Each year, PacTrans provides PSU with $150,000 to fund “small research projects.” Those projects must be selected using a competitive, peer-review process. The Year 2 RFP describes the process for PSU researchers to submit proposals for these funds. PSU plans to award no more than three projects. Therefore, individual project requests should range from $30,000 to $70,000. 

KEY DATES

• Abstracts due: August 8, 2024, 11:59 pm.
• Proposals due: August 29, 2024, 11:59 pm.

DOCUMENTS

• PSU Pactrans Year 2 Small Project RFP
• PSU Pactrans Year 2 Small Project Proposal Form
• PSU Pactrans Year 2 Small Project Budget Form

To submit an abstract and proposal, log into PPMS.