The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development have announced that $2.9 million will be awarded to seven collaborative teams through the Transportation Network Growth Opportunity initiative.
An additional $2.5 million in funding was also approved and is part of the state’s efforts to make Tennessee the No. 1 destination in the Southeast for automotive and mobility investment.
The grant recipients include students and faculty from Tennessee’s leading research institutions.
University of Memphis is receiving $500,000 for designing a multimodal transit system for Blue Oval City and Volkswagen
The Middle West TN Clean Fuels Coalition is receiving $500,000 for demonstrating real world artificial intelligence through traffic signal control.
