81_FR_79308 81 FR 79090 - 2016 Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Program

81 FR 79090 - 2016 Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Program

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 218 (November 10, 2016)

Page Range79090-79091
FR Document2016-27158

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced the selection of 11 projects on October 13, 2016, (see Table 1) to receive $7,931,080 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 and 2016 funding in support of FTA's Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Program. On May 3, 2016, FTA published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR 26621) announcing the availability of $8 Million for the 2016 MOD Sandbox Program. The MOD Sandbox Program is a new FTA research program to demonstrate and evaluate innovative approaches to integrating emerging mobility solutions within a public transportation framework. The program seeks to support transit agencies and communities as they navigate the dynamic, evolving landscape of personal mobility and integrated multimodal transportation networks. FTA is interested in conducting research on new service options in combination with available technologies that enable a traveler-centric approach to transportation, and provide better mobility options for everyone. FTA's MOD Sandbox Program provides a platform where integrated MOD concepts and solutions--supported through local partnerships--can be demonstrated in real-world settings.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 218 (Thursday, November 10, 2016) 
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration


2016 Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Program

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of selections of Fiscal Year 2016 MOD Sandbox Program.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit 
Administration (FTA) announced the selection of 11 projects on October 
13, 2016, (see Table 1) to receive $7,931,080 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 
and 2016 funding in support of FTA's Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox 
Program.
    On May 3, 2016, FTA published a Notice of Funding Opportunity 
(NOFO) (81 FR 26621) announcing the availability of $8 Million for the 
2016 MOD Sandbox Program. The MOD Sandbox Program is a new FTA research 
program to demonstrate and evaluate innovative approaches to 
integrating emerging mobility solutions within a public transportation 
framework. The program seeks to support transit agencies and 
communities as they navigate the dynamic, evolving landscape of 
personal mobility and integrated multimodal transportation networks. 
FTA is interested in conducting research on new service options in 
combination with available technologies that enable a traveler-centric 
approach to transportation, and provide better mobility options for 
everyone. FTA's MOD Sandbox Program provides a platform where 
integrated MOD concepts and solutions--supported through local 
partnerships--can be demonstrated in real-world settings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The FTA Office of Research, 
Demonstration and Innovation will contact successful applicants 
regarding the next steps in applying for funds (see Table 1). 
Unsuccessful applicants may contact Christina Gikakis, Office of 
Research, Demonstration and Innovation at email address 
[email protected] to arrange a proposal debriefing within 30 days of 
this announcement.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the MOD Sandbox NOFO, FTA 
received 78 eligible proposals requesting $57,146,181 in Federal funds. 
Project proposals were evaluated based on each applicant's 
responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria published in the 
NOFO. FTA is funding 11 MOD Sandbox projects, as shown in Table 1, for 
a total of $7,931,080.
    Grantees selected for the MOD Sandbox Program should work with the 
FTA Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation (TRI) to complete 
the cooperative agreement applications in FTA's electronic grants 
management system, Transit Award Management System (TrAMS).
    Cooperative agreements must only include eligible activities 
applied for in the original project application. Project partner 
organizations identified as team members or sub-recipients in the 
original project application must be identified and included in the 
grant application in the capacity as originally proposed. Funds must be 
used consistent with the competitive proposal and for the eligible 
purposes established in the NOFO and described in the FTA Circular 
6100.1E. Grantees are reminded that program requirements such as cost 
sharing or local match can be found in the NOFO and that applicants 
must provide the cost-share and source consistent with the selected 
proposal. A discretionary research project identification number has 
been assigned to each project, as shown in Table 1, for tracking 
purposes and must be used in the TrAMS application.
    Projects are eligible for pre-award authority with an effective 
date no earlier than October 13, 2016. Grantees seeking pre-award 
authority must request and receive approval from the TRI Associate 
Administrator through a Letter of No Prejudice. FTA may grant pre-award 
authority to any project under this program so long as all required 
conditions for pre-award authority have been met and the activities 
undertaken in advance of federal funding are contained in the approved 
project plan or statement of work. Post-award reporting requirements 
include submission of the Federal Financial Report and Milestone 
reports in TrAMS as appropriate (FTA Circular 6100.1E and Circular 
5010.1D). The grantees must comply with all applicable Federal 
statutes, regulations, executive orders, FTA circulars, and other 
Federal requirements detailed in the current Master Agreement in 
carrying out the project supported by the FTA research grant. The 
current Master Agreement can be found in the following FTA Grant 
Agreements Web page: https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grantee-resources/sample-fta-agreements/fta-grant-agreements. In addition, FTA 
will issue special conditions for certain MOD Sandbox projects to 
include specific data collection and reporting requirements related to 
compliance areas such as provision of equivalent service under the 
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
    For non-selected applicants, FTA may contact certain MOD Sandbox 
applicant(s) whose proposals were not selected for Sandbox funding, but 
considered meritorious to advance the transit industry's knowledge on 
MOD. FTA encourages all non-selected Sandbox applicants to notify FTA's 
MOD Program Manager, Christina Gikakis, at email address modsandbox@

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dot.gov regarding their intent to proceed without FTA MOD Sandbox 
program funding. FTA may enter into agreements or other arrangements or 
relationships with these non-selected Sandbox applicants to collaborate 
in the format of technical assistance, such as data collection and 
analysis. Such agreements will assist FTA's effort in building a MOD 
Community of Practice (CoP) to maximize learning and opportunities for 
collaboration for all.
    In addition, FTA intends to continue the dialogue with industry 
stakeholders on how FTA can continue to support innovative practices 
and shared-ride, on-demand mobility services. This may be done through 
an upcoming online dialogue to seek public comment on the overall MOD 
Program as it relates to advancing public transportation through the 
provision of flexible mobility choices and innovative business models. 
FTA also intends to issue Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), to further 
explain the eligibility of such services under current transit law and 
FTA's core programs, such as the Urbanized Area and Rural formula 
programs. FTA encourages your comments and questions, which can be 
submitted to [email protected].

Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.

                              Table 1--2016 MOD Sandbox Program Project Selections
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             State                  Recipient           Discretionary ID         Project title    FTA Allocation
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AZ............................  Regional           D2017-MODD-001              Adaptive Mobility        $669,158
                                 Transportation                                 with Reliability
                                 Authority of                                   and Efficiency
                                 Pima County.                                   (AMORE)--Rita
                                                                                Ranch Area Pilot
                                                                                in Tucson.
AZ............................  Valley Metro       D2017-MODD-002              Mobility Platform       1,001,000
                                 Rail, Inc..
CA............................  City of Palo Alto  D2017-MODD-003; D2017-MODD- Bay Area Fair           1,085,000
                                                    004                         Value Commuting
                                                                                Demonstration.
CA............................  Los Angeles        D2017-MODD-005              Los Angeles             1,350,000
                                 County                                         County and Puget
                                 Metropolitan                                   Sound MOD
                                 Transportation                                 Partnership.
                                 Authority
                                 (Metro).
CA............................  San Francisco Bay  D2017-MODD-006              Integrated                358,000
                                 Area Rapid                                     Carpool to
                                 Transit District                               Transit Access
                                 (BART).                                        Program.
FL............................  Pinellas Suncoast  D2017-MODD-007              Public-Private-           500,000
                                 Transit                                        Partnership for
                                 Authority.                                     Paratransit
                                                                                Mobility on
                                                                                Demand
                                                                                Demonstration
                                                                                (P4-MOD).
IL............................  Chicago Transit    D2017-MODD-008              Integrated Fare           400,000
                                 Authority (CTA).                               Systems--From
                                                                                Transit Fare to
                                                                                Bike Share.
OR............................  Tri-County         D2017-MODD-009              Open Trip Planner         678,000
                                 Metropolitan                                   Share Use
                                 Transportation                                 Mobility (OTP
                                 District of                                    SUM): Open Trip
                                 Oregon.                                        Planner
                                                                                Integration of
                                                                                Transit with
                                                                                Shared-Use
                                                                                Mobility Real-
                                                                                Time and Data
                                                                                Enhancements.
TX............................  Dallas Area Rapid  D2017-MODD-010              MOD Sandbox--The        1,204,000
                                 Transit.                                       First and Last
                                                                                Mile Solution.
VT............................  Vermont Agency of  D2017-MODD-011              Vermont Statewide         480,000
                                 Transportation.                                Transit Trip
                                                                                Planner--Fixed
                                                                                and Flex.
WA............................  Pierce County      D2017-MODD-012              Limited Access            205,922
                                 Public                                         Connections.
                                 Transportation
                                 Benefit Area
                                 Corporation.
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79090 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 218 / Thursday, November 10, 2016 / Notices TABLE 1—FY 16 GRANTS FOR RIDES TO WELLNESS COMPETITION PROJECT SELECTIONS—Continued State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation NC ........... Research Triangle D2016–RTWR–001–015 The Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Author- 65,600 Regional Public ity of Durham, N.C., will receive $65,600 to expand the Go Transportation Au- Triangle Regional Call Center to improve coordinated transit thority. planning and application assistance for paratransit riders who are low-income, uninsured or have mental health special needs. By co-locating paratransit mobility management serv- ices with fixed route mobility management services, the project will increase access to care. The project builds on a 2015 FTA-funded Healthcare Access Challenge Grant that tested solutions for transportation for low income, uninsured, or Medicaid consumers of behavior healthcare and devel- oped a plan to implement solutions. Total: $7,211,518. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Table 1, for tracking purposes and must [FR Doc. 2016–27157 Filed 11–9–16; 8:45 am] FTA Office of Research, Demonstration be used in the TrAMS application. BILLING CODE 4910–57–P and Innovation will contact successful Projects are eligible for pre-award applicants regarding the next steps in authority with an effective date no applying for funds (see Table 1). earlier than October 13, 2016. Grantees DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Unsuccessful applicants may contact seeking pre-award authority must Christina Gikakis, Office of Research, request and receive approval from the Federal Transit Administration Demonstration and Innovation at email TRI Associate Administrator through a address modsandbox@dot.gov to arrange Letter of No Prejudice. FTA may grant 2016 Mobility on Demand (MOD) a proposal debriefing within 30 days of pre-award authority to any project Sandbox Program this announcement. under this program so long as all AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In required conditions for pre-award (FTA), DOT. response to the MOD Sandbox NOFO, authority have been met and the ACTION: Notice of selections of Fiscal FTA received 78 eligible proposals activities undertaken in advance of Year 2016 MOD Sandbox Program. requesting $57,146,181 in Federal federal funding are contained in the funds. Project proposals were evaluated approved project plan or statement of SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of based on each applicant’s work. Post-award reporting Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit responsiveness to the program requirements include submission of the Administration (FTA) announced the evaluation criteria published in the Federal Financial Report and Milestone selection of 11 projects on October 13, NOFO. FTA is funding 11 MOD reports in TrAMS as appropriate (FTA 2016, (see Table 1) to receive $7,931,080 Sandbox projects, as shown in Table 1, Circular 6100.1E and Circular 5010.1D). in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 and 2016 for a total of $7,931,080. The grantees must comply with all funding in support of FTA’s Mobility on Grantees selected for the MOD applicable Federal statutes, regulations, Demand (MOD) Sandbox Program. Sandbox Program should work with the executive orders, FTA circulars, and On May 3, 2016, FTA published a FTA Office of Research, Demonstration other Federal requirements detailed in Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and Innovation (TRI) to complete the the current Master Agreement in (81 FR 26621) announcing the cooperative agreement applications in carrying out the project supported by availability of $8 Million for the 2016 FTA’s electronic grants management the FTA research grant. The current MOD Sandbox Program. The MOD system, Transit Award Management Master Agreement can be found in the Sandbox Program is a new FTA research System (TrAMS). following FTA Grant Agreements Web program to demonstrate and evaluate Cooperative agreements must only page: https://www.transit.dot.gov/ innovative approaches to integrating include eligible activities applied for in funding/grantee-resources/sample-fta- emerging mobility solutions within a the original project application. Project agreements/fta-grant-agreements. In public transportation framework. The partner organizations identified as team addition, FTA will issue special program seeks to support transit members or sub-recipients in the conditions for certain MOD Sandbox agencies and communities as they original project application must be projects to include specific data navigate the dynamic, evolving identified and included in the grant collection and reporting requirements landscape of personal mobility and application in the capacity as originally related to compliance areas such as integrated multimodal transportation proposed. Funds must be used provision of equivalent service under networks. FTA is interested in consistent with the competitive the Americans with Disabilities Act conducting research on new service proposal and for the eligible purposes (ADA). options in combination with available established in the NOFO and described For non-selected applicants, FTA may technologies that enable a traveler- in the FTA Circular 6100.1E. Grantees contact certain MOD Sandbox asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES centric approach to transportation, and are reminded that program requirements applicant(s) whose proposals were not provide better mobility options for such as cost sharing or local match can selected for Sandbox funding, but everyone. FTA’s MOD Sandbox Program be found in the NOFO and that considered meritorious to advance the provides a platform where integrated applicants must provide the cost-share transit industry’s knowledge on MOD. MOD concepts and solutions— and source consistent with the selected FTA encourages all non-selected supported through local partnerships— proposal. A discretionary research Sandbox applicants to notify FTA’s can be demonstrated in real-world project identification number has been MOD Program Manager, Christina settings. assigned to each project, as shown in Gikakis, at email address modsandbox@ VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:46 Nov 09, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00124 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10NON1.SGM 10NON1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 218 / Thursday, November 10, 2016 / Notices 79091 dot.gov regarding their intent to proceed In addition, FTA intends to continue Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), to without FTA MOD Sandbox program the dialogue with industry stakeholders further explain the eligibility of such funding. FTA may enter into agreements on how FTA can continue to support services under current transit law and or other arrangements or relationships innovative practices and shared-ride, FTA’s core programs, such as the with these non-selected Sandbox on-demand mobility services. This may Urbanized Area and Rural formula applicants to collaborate in the format of be done through an upcoming online programs. FTA encourages your technical assistance, such as data dialogue to seek public comment on the comments and questions, which can be collection and analysis. Such overall MOD Program as it relates to submitted to TransitInnovations@ agreements will assist FTA’s effort in advancing public transportation through dot.gov. building a MOD Community of Practice the provision of flexible mobility (CoP) to maximize learning and choices and innovative business Carolyn Flowers, opportunities for collaboration for all. models. FTA also intends to issue Acting Administrator. TABLE 1—2016 MOD SANDBOX PROGRAM PROJECT SELECTIONS State Recipient Discretionary ID Project title FTA Allocation AZ ........................... Regional Transportation Authority of D2017–MODD–001 Adaptive Mobility with Reliability and Ef- $669,158 Pima County. ficiency (AMORE)—Rita Ranch Area Pilot in Tucson. AZ ........................... Valley Metro Rail, Inc. ............................ D2017–MODD–002 Mobility Platform .................................... 1,001,000 CA .......................... City of Palo Alto ..................................... D2017–MODD–003; Bay Area Fair Value Commuting Dem- 1,085,000 D2017–MODD– onstration. 004 CA .......................... Los Angeles County Metropolitan D2017–MODD–005 Los Angeles County and Puget Sound 1,350,000 Transportation Authority (Metro). MOD Partnership. CA .......................... San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit D2017–MODD–006 Integrated Carpool to Transit Access 358,000 District (BART). Program. FL ........................... Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority ....... D2017–MODD–007 Public-Private-Partnership for Para- 500,000 transit Mobility on Demand Dem- onstration (P4–MOD). IL ............................ Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) ............ D2017–MODD–008 Integrated Fare Systems—From Transit 400,000 Fare to Bike Share. OR .......................... Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation D2017–MODD–009 Open Trip Planner Share Use Mobility 678,000 District of Oregon. (OTP SUM): Open Trip Planner Inte- gration of Transit with Shared-Use Mobility Real-Time and Data En- hancements. TX ........................... Dallas Area Rapid Transit ...................... D2017–MODD–010 MOD Sandbox—The First and Last Mile 1,204,000 Solution. VT ........................... Vermont Agency of Transportation ........ D2017–MODD–011 Vermont Statewide Transit Trip Plan- 480,000 ner—Fixed and Flex. WA ......................... Pierce County Public Transportation D2017–MODD–012 Limited Access Connections .................. 205,922 Benefit Area Corporation. [FR Doc. 2016–27158 Filed 11–9–16; 8:45 am] MARAD. The vessel, and a brief the World Wide Web at http:// BILLING CODE 4910–57–P description of the proposed service, is www.regulations.gov. listed below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Submit comments on or before DATES: Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Transportation, Maritime December 12, 2016. 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ActionNotice of selections of Fiscal Year 2016 MOD Sandbox Program.
ContactThe FTA Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation will contact successful applicants regarding the next steps in applying for funds (see Table 1). Unsuccessful applicants may contact Christina Gikakis, Office of
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