Mid-America Regional Council Pilot of the Data Business Plan for State and Local Departments of Transportation: Data Business Plan

Appendix D. Example Data Sharing Agreement

Voluntary Data Contribution Agreement Between the U.S. Department of Transportation and {Contributing Entity}

In an effort to support the needs of Intelligent Transportation System researchers and developers while reducing costs and encouraging innovation, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) have developed the Research Data Exchange (RDE), a web-based transportation data sharing system to promote the sharing of multi-source and multi-modal data. In furtherance of this effort, this Agreement acknowledges the voluntary contribution of such data to the RDE.

WHEREAS, I, ______________________________________________, am authorized to execute this agreement for and on behalf of ____________________________________ (hereinafter "Contributor");

WHEREAS, Contributor desires to voluntarily add its Data, as defined and described below, to the US DOT RDE;

WHEREAS, Contributor desires to grant to US DOT the rights to use and disseminate the Data as needed in support of the goals and objectives of its research projects; and

WHEREAS, US DOT desires Contributor voluntarily add its Data, as defined and described in detail below;

Contributor definition and description of submitted data: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Now Therefore:

I, the undersigned, hereby grant irrevocable, non-exclusive rights to the US DOT to copy, use, disseminate, publicly display, store, and to grant others these rights in advancing their own research goals and objectives.