2025 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund

The DOT Federal Highway Administration is excited to announce the 2025 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund.

Donor Name: DOT Federal Highway Administration

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 01/15/2025

Size of the Grant: More than $1 million

Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned

Details:

There are four categories for TTPSF.

• Safety Plans Category
  • The TTPSF emphasizes the importance of strategic transportation safety plans. Tribes can use TTPSF funds to develop data-driven transportation safety plans. These plans help Tribes identify and document transportation safety needs in Tribal communities. The plans identify opportunities to reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries and may include:
    • A goal and timeline for eliminating fatalities and serious injuries;
    • Collaboration with various safety stakeholder entities;
    • Analysis of the location, severity, and contributing factors in vehicle-involved crashes;
    • Analysis of community input, gathered through public outreach and education;
    • Identification of risk factors that lead to serious injury or death;
    • A data-driven approach to identify projects or strategies to prevent fatalities and serious injuries, which may include:
    • Education and community outreach;
    • Effective methods to enforce traffic laws and regulations;
    • New vehicle or other transportation-related technologies;
    • Roadway planning and design; and
    • Mechanisms for evaluating the outcomes and effectiveness of the transportation safety plan, including how that effectiveness will be reported to local residents.
• Data Assessment, Improvement, and Analysis Category
  • Safety data is critical for making informed transportation safety decisions. Eligible activities for this category include:
    • Planning for improvement of safety data using tools like the self-assessment tool in the Tribal Crash Reporting Toolkit or more detailed traffic records assessments;
    • Crash data improvement including software and technology to support electronic crash reporting;
    • Technology to enable the electronic sharing of crash data with other jurisdictions;
    • Collection of roadway asset data (when the applicant demonstrates how such data will be used to further transportation safety efforts);
    • Risk-based (systemic) safety study to address a safety need across the roadway network;
    • Road Safety Audit for a specific location; or
    • Other study to better understand or document safety needs.
• Systemic Roadway Departure Countermeasures Category
  • Tribes can reduce the risk of serious roadway departure crashes by making improvements to keep drivers in their lane, providing recovery areas, and establishing crashworthy roadsides. Roadway departure is a factor in 63% of fatal motor vehicle crashes in Tribal areas, according to the Tribal Transportation Strategic Safety Plan. Most of these crashes involve only one vehicle and sometimes result from driver behavior factors, such as distraction, impairment, and error.
  • Roadway departure crashes in Tribal areas often result from similar risk factors, for example horizontal curves, narrow lane widths, misleading visual cues, hazardous roadsides, or low light conditions. However, roadway departure crashes in Tribal areas occur infrequently at a given location. For this reason, the systemic approach treats sites of higher risk instead of attempting to treat all sites or focusing only on crash history.
  • This category provides a streamlined application process to request funding to address rural roadway departure using only these specific low-cost safety countermeasures:
    • Horizontal Alignment Warning Signs
    • Delineators
    • Center Line and Edge Line Markings (striping)
    • Rumble Strips or Rumble Stripes
    • Roadside Safety Improvements (removal of fixed objects, updating crashworthy roadside hardware, and installing guardrail or other barriers.
• Infrastructure Improvement Category
  • A wide variety of projects are eligible for this category. This category is flexible to the needs identified in a Tribe’s transportation safety plan. Typical projects submitted under this category include pedestrian, intersection, speed management, and roadway departure safety improvements. Applicants should review the FHWA Proven Safety Countermeasures and the non-exhaustive eligibility list in 23 U.S.C. § 148(a)(4) for examples of projects that are eligible for the Infrastructure Improvements category.

Funding Information

$24,518,400 is available.

Eligibility Criteria 

Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).

For more information, visit Grants.gov.