Data Science for Highway Transportation Tender in USA - 132260437

SOURCES SOUGHT
SOLICITATION NUMBER:
693JJ3-26-SS-0002
NOTICE TYPE:
Sources Sought
TITLE:
Data Science for Highway Transportation
PROGRAM BACKGROUND:
With the increased availability and use of digital assets across highway transportation research, the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) program identified a need to support new methods for creating and scaling capabilities around data science for highway transportation. Emerging approaches for working with data scientists and for supporting cross-disciplinary research (including data science, engineering, and social sciences) could accelerate solutions for safety and reliability of the highway transportation system and exploit dramatic increases in data and computational resources. There is a geometric increase in available data from sensors and simulation that can provide new avenues for research questions on topics from traffic safety to structural conditions. There also is increasing computational power and novel tools for querying large amounts of disparate data including unstructured data and synthetic data. Making practical use of these new resources will require cross-disciplinary research, development, and technology teaming involving data scientists and transportation domain experts.
REQUIRED CAPABILITIES:
The FHWA EAR program is seeking information about
Emerging approaches for curating and sustaining analysis-ready highway transportation datasets through engagement with multi-disciplinary research communities.
Methods for enabling and sustaining researcher and practitioner communities of practice around emerging data science techniques for highway transportation.
Methods for advancing expertise across data science and highway transportation applications both with current professionals to provide an immediate impact of agency and program performance and with students to create a pipeline of future researchers and practitioners that can exploit emerging capabilities i...
Notice ID: 693jj3-26-ss-0002

Department/Ind. Agency: transportation, department of

Sub-tier: federal highway administration

Office: 693jj3 acquisition and grants mgt

NAICS Code: 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

Inactive Dates: jan 24, 2026

Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date