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TBBJ: USF transportation center receives $3.5 million grant

Tampa Bay Business Journal
January 17, 2012

The University of South Florida’s transportation center was awarded a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The center is one of 22 awarded a total of $77 million in grants to advance research and education that address transportation challenges, the DOT said in a statement.

Grant recipients must match the grants with funds from non-federal sources.

University transportation centers’ research will involve shared rail corridors, bridge inspection methods and reducing traffic accidents.

USF’s center is a consortium that includes Florida International University , North Dakota State University at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Original article in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

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