Ep 8: 10 Steps to Completing a USDOT Grant Application

Episode Summary:  Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp, Kirsten Mote and Ryan Sager, all with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to compete for a USDOT Grant.  Listeners will learn the following in this episode:

• Lessons learned and 10 steps to completing a USDOT grant application
  • Review a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
  • Select a project
  • Register on grants.gov
  • Create a project schedule
  • Draft support letter templates
  • Properly identify and collect required data
  • Calculate the funding request amount
  • Complete a Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA)
  • Draft a project narrative
  • Compile and submit the grant

Links:

• US Department of Transportation Grants https://www.transportation.gov/grants
• Coalition for America’s Gateways & Trade Corridors

https://tradecorridors.org/

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has almost 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 13 years of experience in transportation planning and most recently got certified by MIT’s Media Lab in their Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten holds a M.S. in City Planning from Georgia Tech and is the Director of Smart Mobility Planning at Modern Mobility Partners.

Guest Speaker:

• Ryan Sager, AICP has over 8 years of experience in transportation planning and engineering and most recently got certified in Data Science by Emory University’s continuing education program. Ryan holds a M.S. in Civil Engineering and City Planning from Georgia Tech and is a Senior Transportation Engineer at Modern Mobility Partners.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm.  Service areas include transportation planning, travel demand modeling, traffic and revenue forecasting, traffic engineering, project prioritization and performance measures, funding strategies and grant applications, all looking through a lens of new and emerging technologies.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com.  If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast, please email [e-mail]