FHWA Competitive Grant Programs (various)

FHWA Competitive Grant Programs (various) is sponsored by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The FHWA offers various competitive grant programs to fund transportation projects and activities that advance safe, efficient, and sustainable mobility.

[](https://highways. dot. gov/iija/competitive-grant-funding-matrix) ## Competitive Grant Funding Matrix The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and FHWA have a variety of competitive grant programs used to fund various types of transportation projects and activities.

The matrix illustrates these programs broadly, organized by applicant type. Potential applicants should refer to the applicable column in the matrix. The matrix lists grant programs (rows), which can be matched with the potential applicant (columns) the program can fund.

Potential applicants should review program specific guidance to make informed decisions about each program.

| **Grant** **Program** | **Program** **Description** | **State** **Highway** **agency** | **Metropolitan** **Planning** **Organization** **(MPO)** | **Local** **Government** **or agency** | **Federally-** **recognized** **Indian** **Tribe** | **Federal Lands** **Management** **Agency** **(FLMA)** | **Puerto** **Rico** | **Territories** | **Other*** | **Additional** **Information** | | ADCMS - Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems | A program to promote, implement, deploy, demonstrate, showcase, support and document the application of advanced digital construction management systems, practices, performances, and benefits.

| Yes | Yes (In partnership with State DOT) | Yes (In partnership with State DOT) | Yes (In partnership with State DOT) | | Yes | | | | | Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment(also known as Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) Program) | Provides grants to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment.

| Yes | Yes | Yes | | | Yes | | Yes | FY25-26 NOFO | | AID - Accelerated Innovation Deployment Demonstration Program | Provides grants to support the pilot/ demonstration of innovations on projects, in areas such as planning, financing, operations, pavements, structures, materials, environment, and construction.

| Yes | Yes (population over 200,000 - must apply through the State DOT as a subrecipient) | Yes (must apply through the State DOT as a subrecipient) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Yes (must apply through the State DOT as a subrecipient) | | | Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program | Funding beyond FY23 is subject to the availability appropriations; the program provides grants to construct safe and connected active transportation facilities in an active transportation network or active transportation spine and to develop plans for active transportation networks and active transportation spines.

| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (except for projects on federal land where the FMLA enters into a cooperative agreement with an eligible entity) | Yes | No | Yes | | | Bridge Investment Program | Provides grants for projects to improve the condition of bridges and culverts and the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of people and freight over bridges.

| Yes | Yes (population greater than 200,000) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Yes | FY25 Large Bridge Project Awards FY23-26 Large Bridge Projects Amended NOFO FY23-FY26 Planning and Bridge Project Grants Amended NOFO | | BUILD - Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development Grant Program | Provides grants for surface transportation infrastructure projects that will have a significant local or regional impact (aka Local and Regional Project Assistance).

| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes | FY26 Awards FY26 NOFO FY25 Round 2 Awards FY25 Round 2 Amended NOFO | | Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants Program (Community Charging) | Provides grants for projects to develop electric vehicle charging and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure access along alternative fuel corridors throughout the country, including in rural areas, low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with a low ratio of private parking spaces to households or a high ratio of multiunit dwellings to single family homes.

| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | | Congestion Relief Program | Provides grants to advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to reduce congestion and the related economic and environmental costs in the most congested metropolitan areas with an urbanized area population of at least 1 million.

| Yes | Yes | Yes (city or municipality) | | | Yes | | | | | Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program | This program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines, advancing the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation's brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry.

| | | | | | | | Yes (Students and qualifying Institutions of Higher Education) | | | NEVI set-aside (First NOFO:Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator Program) | 10 percent set-aside each fiscal year to provide grants to provide additional assistance to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure.

This first round of the NEVI set-aside program focuses on repairing and replacing existing non-operational EV chargers. | Yes | | Yes | | | Yes | | | | | NEVI set-aside (Second NOFO:NEVI 10) | 10 percent set-aside each fiscal year to provide grants to provide additional assistance to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure.

This second round of the NEVI set-aside program has been incorporated into the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant Program second NOFO.

| Yes | | Yes | | | Yes | | | | | Pollinator-Friendly Practices on Roadsides and Highway Rights-of-Way (also known as Roadside Pollinator Program) | Funding beyond FY23 is subject to the availability of appropriations; the program provides grant to carry out activities to benefit pollinators on roadsides and highway rights-of-way, including the planting and seeding of native, locally-appropriate grasses and wildflowers.

| Yes | | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | | FY23 & FY26 NOFO | | PROTECT: Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Grants | Provides grants for activities that enable communities to address vulnerabilities to current and future weather events, natural disasters, and changing conditions, including sea level rise, and plan transportation improvements and emergency response strategies to address those vulnerabilities.

| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (when applying jointly with a State) | Yes | Yes (for at-risk coastal infrastructure grants only) | Yes | | | Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program | Provides grants for 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.

| Yes | | Yes | Yes | | Yes | | Yes (Regional Transportation Planning Organizations) | | | Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) | Provides grants to support local initiatives to prevent transportation-related death and serious injury on roads and streets (commonly referred to as “Vision Zero” or “Toward Zero Deaths” initiatives).

| | Yes | Yes | Yes | | | | Yes | FY26 NOFO FY25 NOFO FY25 Awards | | TETDDP - Transportation Education and Training Development and Deployment Program (also known as Highway Construction Training Program (HCTP)) | Provides grants to develop, test, and review new curricula and education programs to train individuals at all levels of the transportation workforce; and, or to implement the new curricula and education programs to provide for hands-on career opportunities to meet current and future needs.

| Yes | | | | | | | Yes (Educational Institutions) | | | Transportation Access Pilot Program | Provides technical assistance in developing and processing accessibility data and defining accessibility measurements for transportation planning purposes. The program is a competitive, technical assistance program and does not award funding.

| Yes | Yes | | | | | | Yes (Regional Transportation Planning Organizations) | | | Tribal High Priority Projects Program | Provides grants to Indian Tribes or a governmental subdivision of an Indian Tribe whose annual allocation of funding received under the Tribal Transportation Program is insufficient to complete the highest priority project of the Tribe, or to any Tribe that has an emergency or disaster occur on a Tribal transportation facility that renders the facility impassible or unusable.

Applications are accepted year-round.

| | | | Yes | | | | | | * "Other" may include: multi-jurisdictional groups of eligible applicants, regional transportation authority, special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, transit agency, multistate corridor organizations, partnership between Amtrak and one or more other eligible entities, nonprofit organization, a multicounty special district, or public toll authority.