CART Receives $48,000 Contract from Rahall Transportation Institute

(Bluefield)—The Center for Applied Research and Technology (BSC-CART) at Bluefield State College will receive more than $48,000 through an agreement with the Marshall University Research Corporation on behalf of the Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute (RTI).

This supports BSC-CART’s costs effort to provide campus coordination services for the Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute. The Institute was established at Marshall University through a $12 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Special Program Administration as a University Transportation Center (UTC). RTI is one of 33 UTC’s funded by the Department of Transportation and includes BSC among three collaborative institutions of higher education.

Among CART’s duties as a campus coordinator is the coordination of all activities related to the program at BSC, acting as a liaison between the Rahall Transportation Institute and its staff at Marshall and other collaborative institutions, and representing RTI at various public and private meetings.