IIJA Programs

PROGRAMS FILTERED BY: Transportation

Showing 50 of 109 Results UPDATED April 15

Program	Description	Category	Agency / Bureau	Funding	Eligible Recipients	Apply
Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program	The Wildlife Crossings Pilot program will support projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, and in carrying out that purpose, improve habitat connectivity.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$350,000,000	States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Special Districts, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Pending (2024/Q2)
Vehicle Safety and Behavioral Research	To provide supplemental funding to accelerate vehicle and behavioral safety research.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	$1,590,839,751	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Special Districts, Transit Agencies, Non-Profit Agencies, Higher Education Insitutions, Private Sector Businesses	Pending (TBD)
University Transportation Centers Program	No detailed description available.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$500,000,000	Higher Education Insitutions	Pending (TBD)
Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence	No detailed description available.	Transportation Resilience	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$500,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act	The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program provides Federal credit assistance to eligible surface transportation projects.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$1,250,000,000	Cities, Counties, Private Sector Businesses, States/Territories, Transit Agencies	Apply Now
Training & Education	The Training and Education Program provides resources for the development and delivery of technical assistance, training, professional development, and education programs to improve the professional capacity of the workforce that manages, develops and maintains the Nations highway system.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$127,500,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Surface Transportation Block Grant Program	The Surface Transportation Block Grant Program promotes flexibility in state and local transportation decisions and provides flexible funding to best address state and local transportation needs.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$72,000,000,000	States/Territories	Not applicable
Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants	The purpose of the SMART Grants Program is to conduct demonstration projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems in a variety of communities to improve transportation efficiency and safety. The program funds projects that are focused on using technology interventions to solve real-world challenges and build data and technology capacity and expertise in the public sector.	Transportation Public Transportation	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$1,000,000,000	States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Pending (2024/Q3)
Stopping Threats on Pedestrians	No detailed description available.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$25,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Safety-Related Activities (Set-aside)	This set-aside is for transportation safety outreach, training, and education.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$17,500,000	States/Territories	Pending (TBD)
Safe Streets and Roads for All	The Office of the Secretary's Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant program provides supplemental funding to support local initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets, commonly referred to as Vision Zero or Toward Zero Deaths initiatives.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$6,000,000,000	Cities, Counties, MPOs, Special Districts, Transit Agencies, Tribes	Apply Now
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program	Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program will support projects to improve and expand the surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas to increase connectivity, improve the safety and reliability of the movement of people and freight, and generate regional economic growth and improve quality of life.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$2,000,000,000	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Other Entities	Apply Now
Restoration & Enhancement Grant Program	To provide operating assistance to initiate, restore, or enhance intercity passenger rail service. Key Changes: New priority to applications for routes selected under the Corridor Identification and Development Program and operated by Amtrak. Grants may provide operating assistance for up to six years, and may not exceed: 90 percent of the projected net operating costs for the first year of service; 80 percent of the projected net operating costs for the second year of service; 70 percent of the projected net operating costs for the third year of service; 60 percent of the projected net operating costs for the fourth year of service; 50 percent of the projected net operating costs for the fifth year of service; and 30 percent of the projected net operating costs for the sixth year of service.	Transportation Passenger and Freight Rail	Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration	$500,000,000	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Amtrak, Transit Agencies, Private Sector Businesses	Pending (TBD)
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program	Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program will restore community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$1,000,000,000	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Transit Agencies	Pending (2024/Q3)
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity / Local and Regional Project Assistance Grants (RAISE)	The RAISE Discretionary Grant program provides an opportunity for the DOT to invest in road, rail, transit and port projects that promise to achieve national objectives. The program has previously been known as the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) and Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Discretionary Grants programs.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$15,000,000,000		Pending (2024/Q4)
Railway-Highway Crossings Program	The Railway-Highway Crossings program supports projects with the goal of reducing the number of fatalities, injuries, and crashes at public railway-highway grade crossings.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$1,225,000,000	States/Territories	Not applicable
Railroad Crossing Elimination Program	The purpose of the RCE Program is to fund highway-rail or pathway-rail grade crossing improvement projects that focus on improving the safety and mobility of people and goods. It provides a funding opportunity to improve American rail infrastructure to enhance rail safety, improve the health and safety of communities, eliminate highway-rail and pathway-rail grade crossings that are frequently blocked by trains, and reduce the impacts that freight movement and railroad operations may have on underserved communities.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration	$5,500,000,000	States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Other Entities	Pending (2024/Q2)
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) – Formula	The PROTECT Formula Program will support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.	Transportation Resilience	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$7,299,999,998	States/Territories	Not applicable
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) – Discretionary	PROTECT Grants will support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.	Transportation Resilience	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$1,400,000,000	Federal Agencies, States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Pending (2024/Q2)
Prioritization Process Pilot Program	The vision of the PPPP is to fund the development and implementation of pilot prioritization processes that address and integrate the components of existing transportation programs and support projects that improve safety, climate change and sustainability, equity, and economic strength and global competitiveness consistent with DOT's strategic goals. The program will support data-driven approaches to planning that, upon completion, can be evaluated for public benefit. The program provides funding to develop and implement a publicly accessible, transparent prioritization process for the ranking and selection of projects for inclusion in short-range and long-range transportation plans for state or metropolitan areas.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$50,000,000	States/Territories, MPOs	Apply Now
Open Challenge and Research Pilot Program	No detailed description available.	Transportation Resilience	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$75,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
On-the-Job Training Program	The On-the-Job Training program helps develop the capacity of the Nations current and future highway construction industry workforce by providing the development and diversity of skilled labor.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$50,000,000	States/Territories	Pending (TBD)
Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects (INFRA) Setaside – State Incentives Pilot Program	INFRA awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$750,000,000	States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Other Entities	Apply Now
Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects (INFRA)	The Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects program, also known as INFRA, awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$13,250,000,000	Federal Agencies, States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Special Districts, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Apply Now
Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects	The Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects program provides funding for the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of nationally-significant Federal lands transportation projects and Tribal transportation projects.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$1,775,000,000	Federal Agencies, States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Other Entities	Pending (2024/Q4)
National Priority Safety Programs	To encourage States to address national priorities for reducing highway deaths and injuries through occupant protection programs, state traffic safety information system improvements, impaired driving countermeasures, passage of effective laws to reduce distracted driving, implementation of motorcyclist safety programs, and non-motorist safety programs. Two new grant programs were introduced to improve roadside safety and driver and officer safety grants.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	$1,874,500,000	States/Territories	Not applicable
National Multimodal Cooperative Freight Research Program	National Multimodal Cooperative Freight Research Program	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$18,750,000	Federal Agencies, To Be Determined	Not applicable
National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Megaprojects)	The National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program will support large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$15,000,000,000	States/Territories, MPOs, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Special Districts, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Apply Now
National Highway Performance Program	The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law continues the National Highway Performance Program. The purposes of this program are: To provide support for the condition and performance of the National Highway System; To provide support for the construction of new facilities on the National Highway System; To ensure that investments of federal-aid funds in highway construction are directed to support progress toward the achievement of performance targets established in a state's asset management plan for the National Highway System; To provide support for activities to increase the resiliency of the National Highway System to mitigate the cost of damages from sea level rise, extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires, or other natural disasters.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$148,000,000,000	States/Territories	Not applicable
National Highway Freight Program	The National Highway Freight Program provides funds to the States, by formula, to improve the efficient movement of freight on the National Highway Freight Network.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$7,150,000,000	States/Territories	Not applicable
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI)	Strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability. Sets aside 10% of funding for discretionary grants to State and local governments that require additional assistance to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure.	Transportation Electric Vehicles, Buses and Ferries	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$5,000,000,000	States/Territories	Pending (2024/Q3)
National Driver Register	The NDR maintains the Problem Driver Pointer System (PDPS), a computerized database containing information on individuals whose privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been revoked, suspended, canceled or denied or who have been convicted of serious traffic-related offenses.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	$36,000,000	Non-Profit Agencies, Private Sector Businesses	Pending (TBD)
Multi-State Freight Corridor Planning	Multi-State Freight Corridor Planning	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$25,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs	The Operations and Programs account provides the necessary resources to support program and administrative activities to include salaries and benefits for motor carrier safety personnel.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	$1,925,000,000	Federal Agencies, Other Entities	Not applicable
Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program	The Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program is a Federal grant program that provides financial assistance to States to reduce the number and severity of crashes and hazardous materials incidents involving commercial motor vehicles. The goal of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program is to reduce commercial motor vehicle-involved crashes, fatalities, and injuries through consistent, uniform, and effective commercial motor vehicle safety programs. The Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program is Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations largest grant program that supports State and local law enforcement agencies to utilize over 12,000 enforcement officers to increase enforcement and safety activities nationwide.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	$2,432,500,000	States/Territories	Not applicable
Metropolitan Planning	The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law continues the Metropolitan Planning Program, which establishes a cooperative, continuous, and comprehensive framework for making transportation investment decisions in metropolitan areas. Program oversight is a joint Federal Highway Administration/Federal Transit Administration responsibility.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$2,280,000,000	MPOs	Not applicable
Intelligent Transportation Systems Program	The Intelligent Transportation Systems Program fosters innovation in transportation through the deployment of technology to enhance safety and efficiency while reducing environmental impacts of surface transportation, resulting in improved access and convenience, saved lives and time, and increased productivity.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$550,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Innovative Finance and Asset Concession Grant Program	To assist public entities in facilitating and evaluating public-private partnerships and exploring innovative financing and delivery opportunities for Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) eligible (TIFIA) eligible projects. Two types of grants are available under the new program: Technical Assistance Grants and Expert Services Grants. Technical Assistance grants will build organizational capacity and advance a portfolio of assets by conducting pre-construction tasks, such as asset scans, value-for-money analyses, and other tasks that consider innovative finance and delivery, including asset concessions. Expert Services Grants enable recipients to hire expert professionals to develop and deliver public-private partnerships in connection with the development of a specific asset.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$100,000,000		Apply Now
Highway Use Tax Evasion Enforcement Grants	The Highway Use Tax Evasion Enforcement Grants program provides funding to the Internal Revenue Service and the States to carry out intergovernmental enforcement efforts, along with training and research, to reduce evasion of payment of motor fuel and other highway use taxes, which are the principal sources for Federal and State highway funding.	Transportation Roads, Bridges and Major Projects	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$20,000,000		Pending (2024/Q3)
Highway Safety Research & Development	Research and development activities with respect to (1) highway and traffic safety systems and conditions, (2) human behavioral factors and their effect on highway and traffic safety, (3) evaluation of the effectiveness of countermeasures to increase highway and traffic safety, (4) development of technologies to detect drug impaired drivers, (5) driver education programs, State laws on highway and traffic safety; Cooperative research and evaluation to research and evaluate priority highway safety countermeasures; Collaborative research on in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving; Education campaign to reduce incidence of vehicular heatstroke of children; Grant program to develop and implement State processes for informing consumers of recalls; and Evaluation of innovative highway safety countermeasures.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	$970,000,000	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Special Districts, Transit Agencies, Non-Profit Agencies, Higher Education Insitutions, Private Sector Businesses	Pending (TBD)
Highway Safety Programs	Section 402 funds are authorized by Congress and are available to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Territories and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. These funds are apportioned using statutory apportionment formula. These funds are provided to the State and Territorial Highway Safety Offices based on an approved highway safety plan that details problem identification, performance measures, countermeasures and projects using identified countermeasures to help reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	$1,992,000,000	States/Territories, Other Entities	Not applicable
Highway Safety Improvement Program	The Highway Safety Improvement Program provides States with critical safety funding that is used to save lives and prevent serious injuries on all public roads. The Highway Safety Improvement Program is based on a performance-driven process that identifies and analyzes highway safety problems and advances highway safety improvement projects that have the greatest potential to reduce fatalities and serious injuries.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$15,557,499,996	States/Territories	Not applicable
High-Visibility Enforcement	To carry out national traffic safety campaigns to reduce alcohol-impaired or drug-impaired driving and to increase the use of seatbelts.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	$201,600,000	Federal Agencies, Other Entities	Not applicable
High Priority Activities Program	The High Priority Activities grant program is a discretionary (competitive) grant program designed to provide Federal financial assistance to enhance states commercial vehicle safety plan activities, including commercial vehicle inspections, traffic enforcement, and outreach while supporting innovative technology development and/or new project(s) not included in the commercial vehicle safety plan that will have a positive impact on commercial vehicle safety. Other applicants, such as academia and safety associations are also eligible for these grants that improve safety. Overall this grant supports safety programs and innovative technology deployment with a goal of increasing efficiency improvements in exchanging commercial vehicle safety data.	Transportation Safety	Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	$432,500,000	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes	Apply Now
Healthy Streets Program	No detailed description available.	Transportation Resilience	Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	$500,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Hazmat Training Grants	No detailed description available.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$25,000,000	To Be Determined	Pending (TBD)
Hazmat Emergency Preparedness Fund	No detailed description available.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary	$204,100,000	Federal Agencies, Other Entities	Not applicable
Hazardous Materials Safety	No detailed description available.	Transportation Other	Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration	$345,000,000	Federal Agencies, Other Entities	Not applicable
FTA 5340 Program – Growing States and High-Density States Formula	An additional formula funding component that is then added to either the 5307 or 5311 formula funding.	Transportation Public Transportation	Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration	$1,822,948,622	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Not applicable
FTA 5340 Program – Growing State Apportionments	An additional formula funding component that is then added to either the 5307 or 5311 formula funding.	Transportation Public Transportation	Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration	$2,055,665,467	States/Territories, Counties, Cities, Tribes, Transit Agencies, Other Entities	Not applicable