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Washington, D.C. --- The Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded Rutgers University $816,600 in federal funding for fiscal year 2007, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today.
Rutgers is one of twenty universities across the nation to receive funds through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), allowing them to work with the Department to solve national and regional transportation challenges through research, education and technology transfer.
The fiscal year 2007 funding is part of Rutgers' four-year designation as a DOT-sponsored University Transportation Center (UTC). DOT says that the UTC Program was established in 1987 with the mission “to advance U.S. technology and expertise in the many disciplines comprising transportation through the mechanisms of education, research and technology transfer at university-based centers of excellence.”
"I am extremely proud that Rutgers has distinguished itself nationally by achieving this designation from the Department of Transportation," Pallone said. "These funds will benefit not just the University, but our entire community, by allowing Rutgers to work on critical transportation issues that affect us all."
Rutgers is one of ten schools selected last fall as a Tier one UTC. According to the DOT, Tier one UTC's are expected to work collaboratively with the DOT and state and local transportation stakeholders, and provide leadership in making national and regional contributions to solving immediate and long-range transportation challenges.
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