Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure

America needs transportation technologies that decrease long term costs, increase system safety, enhance infrastructure resilience, and make America more globally competitive. Delivering that vision will require bold new investments in advanced and emerging materials, structures, components, systems, and capabilities – both physical and digital – that have the potential to radically transform our transportation infrastructure. Adapting the successful innovation model pioneered by [DARPA](https://www.darpa.mil/) and [ARPA-E](https://arpa-e.energy.gov/), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is accelerating the future of America’s transportation systems by launching the **Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure (ARPA-I)**. As a newly designated agency, ARPA-I will fund high-risk, high-reward next-generation transportation technologies that will maintain America’s position as a global leader in the sector. For more information, please contact: [ARPA-I@dot.gov](mailto:ARPA-I@dot.gov) Authorized by the [Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act](https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf) (Public Law 117-58, Section 25012; November 15, 2021), the [Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure (ARPA-I)](https://www.transportation.gov/arpa-i) is a new Congressionally designated agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) tasked with funding high-risk, high-reward next-generation technologies that have the potential to revolutionize America’s transportation infrastructure systems. Congress specified that the goals of ARPA–I shall be — ‘‘(A) to advance the transportation infrastructure of the United States by developing innovative science and technology solutions that — (i) lower the long-term costs of infrastructure development, including costs of planning, construction, and maintenance; (ii) reduce the lifecycle impacts of transportation infrastructure on the environment, including through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; (iii) contribute significantly to improving the safe, secure, and efficient movement of goods and people; and (iv) promote the resilience of infrastructure from physical and cyber threats; and (B) to ensure that the United States is a global leader in developing and deploying advanced transportation infrastructure technologies and materials.” (49 USC § 119(c)(1)).