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-: We are here today to announce
that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded
the Region Seven University Transportation Center Grant
to our UNL Mid-America Transportation Center.
This obviously is a big win for our university
and we're very excited about.
It also is a big win for our college of engineering.
-: Transportation is an important
economic driver in our state.
It's also very important for research in our university.
Research funded by the grant will extend
from the real-time forecast mapping system
to preparing disaster logistics and relief protocols
for at-risk tribal, urban minority, and rural communities.
-: Our focus is on promoting safety in the region,
and our goal is to have a measurable impact
on workers' safety, on traveling public safety,
and the safety of the folks
who live near transportation systems.
We wanna see all those awful numbers that we have,
how many deaths do we have, how many injuries.
We want them all to go down.
-: It's about people and about talent,
so the talent of this team here,
who has brought this work to Nebraska
and to serve in this area in an applied way
we're very proud of.