PLEASE NOTE: This program is not currently accepting applications for funding.
This grant program makes federal funds available to help improve state safety data systems through projects that:
- Make measurable improvements to performance attributes (accessibility, accuracy, completeness, integration, timeliness, or uniformity) of state safety data systems (citation/adjudication, crash, driver, EMS/injury surveillance, roadway, or vehicle) that will assist with identifying priorities for federal, state, and local traffic safety programs;
- Evaluate the effectiveness of such efforts;
- Link state data systems, including traffic records and relevant data systems;
- Improve the compatibility and interoperability of state data systems with national data systems and the data systems of other states; and
- Enhance the state’s ability to observe and analyze national trends in crash occurrences, rates, outcomes, and circumstances.
OGR is issuing a competitive Availability of Grant Funds (AGF) for this grant program to make multiple grant awards totaling up to $1,300,000 in FFY 2023.
Program Eligibility:
Only units of state and local government, state higher educational institutions, or not-for-profit organizations with a public purpose in Massachusetts are eligible to apply for this funding. Private sector organizations are not eligible to receive this funding.
Key Dates:
AGF Posted: January 11, 2023
Webinar for Potential Applicants: January 25, 2023
Letters of Intent: By 4 PM, February 28, 2023
Questions Regarding AGF: By 4 PM, March 7, 2023
Electronic AGF Responses: By 4 PM, March 10, 2023
Project Presentations: On or about March 22, 2023
ETRCC Review of Projects: Anticipated on April 12, 2023
Award Announcements: On or about May 12, 2023
Project Start Dates: On or after June 1, 2023
Project End Dates: Not to exceed June 30, 2024
Please direct questions regarding this AGF to Mr. Brook Chipman, Senior Program Manager, at OGR at brook.chipman@mass.gov.
Application Materials and Information:
Second Round of FFY 2023 STSISI Grant-405(c) Funding AGF
Second Round of FFY 2023 STSISI Grant-405(c) Funding AGF Attachment A - Application
Second Round of FFY 2023 STSISI Grant-405(c) Funding Attachment B - Budget Worksheets
OGR will conduct an AGF Technical Assistance Webinar on January 25, 2023, 1:00 to 2:00pm. During the webinar, questions may be asked. Outside the webinar only written questions will be accepted as described below. To register for the webinar please click below:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8405791011961284695
Powerpoint Slides for Technical Assistance Webinar -- January 25, 2023. After this webinar and through 4 pm on March 7, 2023 written questions will be accepted as described in the AGF.
No further Q&A occurred for this AGF.
Virtual Project Presentation Information as of 3/21/23
MSP - CARS presentation: Improving Data Accuracy from the Scene of Motor Vehicle Crashes
DCJIS presentation: Motor Vehicle Automated Citation and Crash System (MACCS)
MassDOT – RMV Division: Inclusion of Vulnerable Road Users in Crash Reporting to RMV
Documents Potentially Required at Award Stage: