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 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants Program (Corridor Charging) | Deploys publicly accessible EV charging infrastructure and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors. | 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) | ||||||||
| HUTE - Highway Use Tax Evasion Program | Grants which aim to identify, reduce, and/or eliminate evasion of fuel taxes at the Federal and State level | Yes | Yes (Internal Revenue Service) | |||||||
| INFRA - Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects | Provides grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance. | Yes | Yes (with a population over 200,000) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| MEGA - National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program | Provides grants to surface transportation infrastructure that are too large or complex for traditional funding programs that will have a significant national or regional impact. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grants | Provides grants to fund projects for the replacement, removal, and repair of culverts or weirs that would meaningfully improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) | Provides grants to Tribes and Federal land management agencies to complete projects that will provide substantial benefits to their communities or parklands. | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes | Yes | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Prioritization Process Pilot Program | Supports data-driven approaches to planning that can be evaluated for public benefit. | Yes | Yes (serving an urban area with a population over 200,000) | |||||||
| 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 | |
| Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities Grant Program (RTEPF) | Studies and provides grants to reduce idling at port facilities, including through the electrification of port operations. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 | |||||
| SIRC - Strategic Innovation for Revenue Collection | Provides funds to test the feasibility of a road usage fee and other user-based alternative revenue mechanisms to help maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund | Prevent and reduce transportation-related injuries and fatalities on Tribal Lands. | Yes | ||||||||
| Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program | Provides grants to support projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, and in carrying out that purpose, improve habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic species. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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.
Last updated: Tuesday, April 7, 2026