NITC Principal Investigators Handbook

Prinicipal Investigators (PIs) must comply with all grant requirements throughout the grant cycle. Successful adherence to grant obligations and past performance on budget, schedule, and fulfillment of project requirements will be used as a review criterion for future proposals that you submit. To that end, please read the NITC Principal Investigators' Handbook (PDF) prior to embarking on your project to better understand the requirements as well as the benefits you gain from NITC funding.

For questions about grant requirements, please contact the NITC Research Program staff at asktrec@pdx.edu.

Progress Reports are required of all PI's, and are are due on March 30th and September 30th every year, so long as the project is active. This information is critical for our performance measure reporting to our federal funder the U.S. Department of Transportation.

  • Show reportable progress throughout the life of a project by submitting that information through our PPMS research database for each of your projects.
  • A project is not complete until the final report has been approved and published by NITC, and a final progress report has been submitted via the PPMS. 
  • Completed progress reports and current project status are considered before awarding subsequent grants to PIs. If your project is significantly delayed, you may be barred from competing in NITC grant competitions until current grant requirements are met.

We strongly encourage sharing the results of research projects at national conferences and in refereed journals. Researchers should provide copies of all papers submitted to conferences or journals to NITC, and include appropriate attribution to NITC. Seminars, symposia, distance learning classes and any education or technology transfer activities undertaken with NITC support requires collection of metrics on numbers of transportation professionals attending. Video or streaming web archives that can be posted on the NITC website are welcome. Please add activities and metrics to your progress report even if they occur AFTER you project is complete.