PEER has continuing funding from the State of California related to the seismic performance of transportation systems. This funding supports the Transportation Systems Research Program (TSRP), the purpose of which is to lessen the impacts of earthquakes on the transportation systems of California, including highways and bridges, port facilities, high-speed rail, airports, and other related structures. In September 2019, PEER issued a request for proposals, Solicitation PEER TSRP 19-01 , for one- and two-year projects aligned with the current TSRP research priorities and vision.
In response to Solicitation PEER TSRP 19-01, 44 proposals were received. Each proposal received at least two independent reviews from the pool of more than two dozen reviewers. Based on the priorities of the pre-set TSRP vision, pre-defined evaluation criteria specified in the RFP, and factors such as the level of engagement with the PEER core institutes, 14 new projects were approved, comprising a total funding of $1.2 million, with the first year funding of nearly $740,000.
The following is a list of the 14 funded projects, including six multi-institution collaborative projects.
PEER thanks all the PIs who submitted proposals, and also thanks the efforts and detailed feedback from the reviewers.
Title: A3: Fire Performance of Steel-Frame Buildings using OpenSees
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Title: M1: Probabilistic Simulation-Based Evaluation of the Effect of Near-Field Spatially Varying Ground Motions on Distributed Infrastructure Systems
Title: M2: A Pacific Rim Forum on Regional-Scale Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions and Infrastructure Response for PBEE of Transportation Systems, 
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Title: S2: Ground Improvement-Based Protection of Transportation Infrastructure: Validation of PBE via Centrifuge and Numerical Modeling
Title: S3: Performance Based Economic Loss Assessment Due to a Hypothetical Large Southern Earthquake based on the Disruption and Recovery of Port of Los Angeles Freight Traffic
Title: T1, T2: Workshop of Pre- and Post-processing Tools for OpenSees
Title: T1: A Comprehensive Database of RC Column Tests
Title: T1: Text Analytics on Social Media for Resilience-Enabled Extreme Events Reconnaissance
Title: T2: Reduced-Order Models for Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Analyses of Buried Structures
Title: T2: Meshfree Large-Strain Framework for Seismic Response of Ground-Structural Systems: Development and Open Source Tool
Title: T4: Identification of Transportation Network Corridors, for Enhancing Network Resilience
Title: T2: OpenSees Implementation of 3D Embedded Pile Element for Enhance Soil-Pile Interaction Analysis of Bridge Systems Subject to Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading