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Transportation Funding
This section provides resources that specifically support increasing multi-modal transportation options.
Transportation and Community and System Preservation Pilot (FHWA):
This
program provides funding for planning grants, implementation grants, and
research to investigate and address the relationship between transportation
and community and system preservation. States, local governments,
and metropolitan planning organizations are eligible for discretionary
grants to plan and implement strategies that improve the efficiency of
the transportation system, reduce environmental impacts of transportation,
reduce the need for costly future public infrastructure investments, ensure
efficient access to jobs, services and centers of trade, and examine development
patterns and identify strategies to encourage private sector development
patterns which achieve these goals. Contacts: Susan Petty, 202-366-1371,
Climate Change and Transportation/Air Quality (EPA/OTAQ):
This program
provides assistance to tribal, state, local, and multi-state agencies to
develop innovative proposals for demonstration projects that will yield
measurable reductions in vehicle miles traveled, greenhouse gases, and/or
criteria air pollutants in a coordinated fashion at the community level.
Contacts: Mary Walsh, 734-214-4205
Transportation Enhancements Program (FHWA): 
Transportation enhancements are transportation-related activities
that are designed to strengthen the cultural, aesthetic, and environmental
aspects of the Nation's intermodal transportation system. The transportation
enhancements program provides for the implementation of a variety
of non-traditional projects, with examples ranging from the restoration
of historic transportation facilities, to bike and pedestrian facilities,
to landscaping and scenic beautification, and to the mitigation
of water pollution from highway runoff.
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (FHWA):
The primary purpose of this program is to fund projects and programs that
reduce transportation emissions in areas that do not meet the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards (non-attainment areas) and former non-attainment
areas that are now in compliance (maintenance areas) for ozone, carbon
monoxide, and small particulate matter. Eligible activities include
transit improvements, travel demand management strategies, traffic flow
improvements, and public fleet conversions to cleaner fuels. Funds are
distributed to states based on a formula that considers an area's population
by county and the severity of its air quality problems. Contacts: Michael
Savonis, 202-366-2080 or Abbe Marner, 202-366-4317
Transit Enhancements (FTA):
This program funds projects designed to
make mass transportation service more attractive and easier to use.
New Starts (FTA):
The purpose of this program is to increase the capacity
of public transportation systems. Projects eligible for FTA Section
5309 New Starts funding include any fixed guideway system
that uses and occupies a separate right-of-way, or rail line, for the exclusive
use of mass transportation and other high occupancy vehicles, or uses a
fixed catenary system and a right-of-way usable by other forms of transportation.
This includes, but is not limited to, rapid rail, light rail, commuter
rail, automated guideway transit, people movers, and exclusive facilities
for buses (such as bus rapid transit) and other high occupancy vehicles.
Transit Capital Investment Grants (FTA):
This programs funds: (1)
new rail or bus systems; (2) improvements to, or maintenance of,
existing rail and other fixed guideway systems; and (3) bus system upgrading.
Urbanized
and Non-Urbanized Area Formula Grants (FTA):
The Urbanized
Area Formula Grants Program provides funding for transit capital projects,
such as buses, and for operating expenses to urbanized areas with a population
of 50,000 or more. Funds are apportioned by a formula based on population,
population density, and other factors associated with transit service and
ridership.
Joint Development Policy and Funding Opportunities (FTA):
FTA grantees
may use FTA financial assistance for joint development projects that are
physically or functionally related to transit or that increase transit
ridership in a transportation corridor. Such projects may include
disposing of land for nearby real estate development, preparing land for
development, providing enhanced access, and developing on-site community
services such as dependent care, health care, public safety, or commercial
conveniences.
Clean Air Transportation Communities (OTAQ):
This program provides
funding for state, local, multi-state, and tribal agencies involved with
climate change and transportation/air quality issues, for pilot projects
that have a high potential to spur innovations in the reduction of transportation-related
emissions and vehicle miles traveled at the local level and throughout
the United States. EPA is particularly interested in projects that
incorporate smart growth efforts that reduce transportation-related emissions.
Contacts: Mary Walsh, (734) 214-4205