Description: Provides private surface transportation developers and operators with access to tax-exempt interest rates, lowering the cost of capital significantly and enhancing investment prospects.

Eligible Recipients: Private sector

Federal Cost Share: N/A

Description: The UTC Program advances the State-of-the-art in transportation research and technology, and develops the next generation of transportation professionals.

Eligible Recipients: Higher Ed.

Federal Cost Share: In general, 50 percent Federal share/50 percent non-Federal (100 percent non-Federal matching requirement); 66.7 percent Federal/33.3 percent non-Federal (50 percent non-Federal matching requirement) for Tier 1 UTCs

Description: New program to facilitate access to expert services for and to provide grants to eligible entities to enhance the technical capacity to facilitate and evaluate public-private partnerships to allow the private sector to assume a greater role in project planning, development, financing, construction, maintenance and operation, including through assisting entities entering into asset concessions.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally and non-federally recognized), counties, cities/townships, special district, public housing authorities, Indian housing authorities etc.

Federal Cost Share: 100%

Description: "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"

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, federally recognized Tribal governments, MPOs, multi-jurisdictional entities

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Funds for projects that replace, remove, and/or repair culverts or weirs.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, tribes

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal cost share for urban projects and up to 100% Federal funding for projects located in rural areas or historically disadvantaged communities

Description: Provides supplemental funding grants to rural, midsized, and large communities 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.

Eligible Recipients: State; Tribal government, Local, public transit agency or authority, public toll authority, MPO, 2 or more of the above.

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

Description: Supplemental funding for projects that will have a significant local/regional impact. Includes highways, bridges, public transportation, passenger rail or freight rail, port infrastructure etc.

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, D.C., local governments, multi-state entities, certain SPDs or public authorities, Tribal government, Amtrak in partnership with the above.

Federal Cost Share: Grant can provide up to 60% of total project cost. Total Federal funding up to 80% of total project cost. Waivers are not available.

Description: Supports large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely generate national ,or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.

Eligible Recipients: States or group of states, local governments, Tribal government or consortium of Tribal governments, MPOs, certain SPDs or public authorities, Amtrak if in partnership with the above.

Federal Cost Share: 75% Federal/25% non-federal for new compacts; 50% federal/50% non-federal for existing compacts. Waivers not available.

Description: Restores communities by removing, retrofitting or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity.

Eligible Recipients: State, locality, Tribal government, MPO, non-profit, owner of eligible facility

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers available.

Description: Grant funds will be made available to municipalities or community owned utilities (not including for-profit entities) to repair, rehabilitate, or replace natural gas distribution pipeline systems or portions thereof or to acquire equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities, and to avoid economic loss.

Eligible Recipients: Utilities

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

Description: The Hazardous Materials and Emergency Preparedness Grants Programs consist of the following grants: Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness; Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training; Hazardous Materials Instructor Training; and Supplemental Public Sector Training.

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, tribes, counties, cities/townships, etc.

Federal Cost Share: Some grants have a cost share requirement of 20 percent. Waivers are available.

Description: Maintains the Problem Driver Pointer System database

Eligible Recipients: Businesses, nonprofits

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal share required

Description: Funding to improve crash data collections and analysis.

Eligible Recipients: States, Secretary of the Interior for Tribes, DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Norther Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands; For contacts: businesses, non-profits

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers not available.

Description:

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, D.C.

Federal Cost Share:

Description: Supplemental funding to accelerate vehicle and behavioral safety research

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally-recognized and non-federally recognized), counties, cities / townships, SPDs, Higher Ed etc.

Federal Cost Share: Up to 100% federal contribution

Description: To fund national traffic safety campaigns to reduce alcohol-impaired or drug-impaired driving and to increase the use of seatbelts.

Eligible Recipients: Businesses, nonprofits

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal share required

Description: 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.

Eligible Recipients: States, D.C., territories

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: 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.

Eligible Recipients: States, Territories, D.C., the Secretary of Interior for Tribes.

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal / 20 percent non-federal (except for American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, and the Virgin Islands where it is a 100 percent Federal share). Waivers are available for Tribes.

Description: Grants to develop and expand marine highway service options and facilitate their further integration into the U.S. surface transportation system.

Eligible Recipients: Designated marine highway projects

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Grants to invest in the modernization and expansion of US ports to remove bottlenecks, ensure long-term competitiveness, resilience, cybersecurity, and sustainability while reducing impacts to the environment and neighboring communities.

Eligible Recipients: Ports, Port Authorities

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non federal. Waivers are available for small projects or projects in rural areas.

Description: Capital projects for the replacement of rail rolling stock.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governmental authorities

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal; however, these funds cannot exceed 50 percent of total cost. Waivers are not available.

Description: Direct funding to federally-recognized Tribes to provide public transportation service on and around Indian reservations or Tribal land in rural areas.

Eligible Recipients: Federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Villages

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are available.

Description:

Eligible Recipients: Tribes, nonprofits, public transportation providers, development organizations, workforce development entities

Federal Cost Share:

Description: Provides funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit capital investment

Eligible Recipients: State or local governmental authorities that are FTA grant recipients

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Assists in funding capital projects for existing fixed guideway systems including rail, bus rapid transit, and passenger ferries) and high intensity motorbus systems to maintain public transportation systems in a state of good repair.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special district, Tribal governments (federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Provides funding to states for transportation research, technical assistance, training and related support services in rural areas

Eligible Recipients: States

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

Description: Provides funding to States in the Appalachian region to support the provision of public transit services in rural areas.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special districts, nonprofits, Tribal governments (federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

Description: Provides direct funding to Federally recognized Tribes to provide public transportation service on and around Indian reservations or Tribal land in rural areas

Eligible Recipients: Federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Villages

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are available.

Description: To improve, initiate, or continue public transportation service in nonurbanized areas and to provide technical assistance for rural transportation providers. The Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program is a set-aside from the Formula Grants for Rural Areas Program.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), counties, cities/townships, special districts, nonprofits

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers not available.

Description: Competitive program to improve coordinated access and mobility

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special districts, nonprofits, Tribal governments (other than federally-recognized)

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: To provide financial assistance in meeting the transportation needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities where public transportation services are unavailable, insufficient or inappropriate.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special districts, nonprofits, Tribal governments (federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

Description: Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, construct or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct or lease bus-related facilities.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) county, cities/townships, special districts

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available

Description: Makes resources available to urbanized areas and Governors for transit capital and operating assistance in urbanized areas and for transportation-related planning.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally recognized), counties, cities/townships, special districts

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available

Description: The Metropolitan Planning Program is available to carry out the metropolitan transportation planning process and meet the transportation planning requirements of the joint Federal Transit Administration and Federal Highway Administration planning regulations.

Eligible Recipients: States, MPOs

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Awards funding to advance innovative public transportation research and development

Eligible Recipients: State and local government entities, federal government etc.

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are available if there's substantial public benefit.

Description: An additional formula funding component added to either the Urbanized Area Formula Grants or Formula grants for Rural Areas funding.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally recognized), counties, cities/townships, SPDs

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

Description: Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

Description: Provides funding to assist innovative projects and activities that advance and sustain safe, efficient, equitable, climate-friendly public transportation. Eligible research and demonstrations under this program explore novel approaches to improve public transportation.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, SPD, Public Transportation provider, Tribal governments (federally recognized) etc.

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are available.

Description: Funding to support workforce development and transition, including in relation to zero-emission fleet conversion and other technical assistance to support transit providers. Also supports the development of standards for the public transportation industry.

Eligible Recipients: National non-profit organizations

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Discretionary grant program funds transit capital investments, including heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail, streetcars and bus rapid transit. Includes a pilot program for Expedited Project Delivery for new high-capacity transit projects.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments

Federal Cost Share: Max allowed 80% federal/20% non-federal OR 60% federal/40% non-federal depending on project type. Waivers are not available.