The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced on Aug. 9 that it is awarding a $19.2 million grant to Texas under the Saving Lives with Connectivity: Accelerating V2X Deployment program to advance connected and interoperable vehicle technologies. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) will receive the grant for the Texas TRUST Project: Transforming Roads, Unleashing Smart Technologies that will serve as a national model to accelerate and spur new deployments of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies. The Texas grant was awarded as part of a $60 million grant package awarded to Arizona, Texas and Utah.