The Department of Transportation is seeking applications for its Congestion Relief Program.
Donor Name: Department of Transportation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/22/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of the Program is to provide discretionary grants to States, metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), cities, and municipalities to advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to congestion relief in the most congested metropolitan areas of the United States.
The goals of the Program are to reduce highway congestion, reduce economic and environmental costs associated with that congestion, including transportation emissions, and optimize existing
highway capacity and usage of highway and transit systems through:
- improving intermodal integration with highways, highway operations, and highway performance;
- reducing or shifting highway users to off- peak travel times or to nonhighway travel modes during peak travel times; and
- pricing of, or based on, as applicable,
- parking;
- use of roadways, including in designated geographic zones; or
- congestion.
Goals
Consistent with the vision for the Program, FHWA seeks to fund projects under this NOFO that, in combination with the merit criteria, advance the following:
- Safety
- Climate Change and Sustainability
- Equity and Justice40
- Workforce Development, Job Quality, and Wealth Creation
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $150,000,000
- Award Floor: $10,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
Entities eligible to apply for a Program grant are:
- A State for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000; and
- Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), city, or municipality, for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
