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TRANSPORTATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES!

BEAUTIFICATION GRANT PROGRAM 
Due in Summer and Fall. Draft: August 14, 2024. Final: October 1, 2024

Usually on FDOT rights-of-way (ROW) (or county roads contiguous to and visible from the state ROW). Purchase and installation of plant materials, soil amendments, and irrigation systems; site preparation. (Sign installation and hardscape elements are not eligible but can be used as match). Think of areas where you would like to have people walking and bicycling. Having beautiful plants is an important element for active transportation. Also, beautification is helpful for economic development.​​

SS4A (SAFE STREETS & ROADS FOR ALL)
Due in Spring and Summer. (Implementation: May 16, 2024. First round Planning & Demonstration: awards announced May 17, 2024). Planning & Demonstration: August 29, 2024.

Roadway safety planning. Develop, complete, or supplement a comprehensive safety action plan to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries in an area. Demonstration activities. Planning activities. Implement projects and strategies identified in Action Plan that could be infrastructural, behavioral, and/or operational.

Due in Spring and Summer. (Implementation: May 16, 2024. First round Planning & Demonstration: awards announced May 17, 2024). Planning & Demonstration: August 29, 2024.​

Operation and maintenance of trails located within the Florida Greenways and Trails System (FGTS). Examples: purchase of equipment and capital assets, repairs to ensure safety, pressure washing, bush pruning, clearing debris.

Construction projects include engineering, design, permitting, right-of-way acquisition, and other activities related to the construction of infrastructure improvements, such as the building of a wildlife crossing overpass or underpass. Non-construction projects include planning, research, and educational activities that are not directly related to construction of infrastructure improvements, such as a hot spot analysis of Wildlife Vehicle Collisions (WVCs).

Assisting rural communities to recover economically through improved infrastructure. Develop or improve essential public services and facilities in communities across rural America. Construct, expand or improve facilities that provide health care, education, public safety, and public services. Examples of essential community facilities include fire stations, police stations, public works facilities and equipment, clinics, hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, and community gardens.

Planning and construction. Roads or other remedies to transportation impediments. Other physical requirements to facilitate tourism, trade, and economic development activities in the community. (RIF funds are often used by rural communities as a match for other infrastructure funding programs, such as those offered by the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant, United States Department of Agriculture - Rural Development, and the United States Department of Commerce - Economic Development Administration.)

AOP (CULVERT AQUATIC ORGANISM PASSAGE)
Fall. September 23, 2024.

The replacement, removal, and repair of culverts or weirs that meaningfully improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish. Anadromous is the term that describes fish born in freshwater who spend most of their lives in saltwater and migrate back to freshwater to spawn.

Improve railroad crossing safety and efficiency, investing in projects that construct grade separations, upgrade safety devices at crossings, or close at-grade crossings where roads and train tracks intersect.

Highway or other surface transportation facility that creates a barrier to community connectivity, including barriers to mobility, access, or economic development due to high speeds, grade separations, or other design factors. Eligible facilities include limited access highways, viaducts, any other principal arterial facilities, and other facilities such as transit lines and rail lines. Capital Construction. Community Planning. To fund both reconnecting-focused projects and smaller projects focused on reducing environmental harm and improving access in disadvantaged communities. Projects may address: Removal of a dividing facility, Enhance community connectivity, Improved access by building or improving Complete Streets. Planning activities to support future construction projects and allow for innovative community planning to address localized transportation challenges. Projects may address: Community engagement activities, Planning studies to assess the feasibility of removing, retrofitting, or mitigating an existing eligible facility to reconnect communities (for example: mobility, safety, environmental and public health impacts etc.), Conceptual or preliminary engineering or design, Other needs including land-use and zoning reform, transit-oriented development, housing supply, among others.

"shovel-ready projects." Projects that foster local connections, like technology upgrades, outdoor spaces, the arts, and community centers. Trails.

"shovel-ready projects." Projects that foster local connections, like technology upgrades, outdoor spaces, the arts, and community centers. Trails.

Smaller-scale transportation projects and activities that expand and integrate accessible non-motorized travel choices and make them safer, including on- and off-road bicycle and pedestrian facilities, recreational trails, safe routes for non-drivers, safe routes to schools, and accessibility improvements to help achieve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Strengthening our economy by enhancing traveling experiences throughout communities, TA also funds cultural, historical, and environmental aspects of transportation infrastructure including construction of turnouts, overlooks and viewing areas; historic preservation and rehabilitation of historic transportation facilities; vegetation management in transportation rights-of-way; archaeological activities related to impacts from transportation projects; and environmental mitigation related to stormwater and habitat connectivity.

Highway or bridge projects eligible under title 23, United States Code. Public transportation projects eligible under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code. Passenger and freight rail transportation projects eligible under title 49. Port infrastructure investments (including inland port infrastructure and land ports of entry). The surface transportation components of an airport project eligible for assistance under part B of subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code. Intermodal projects whose components are otherwise an eligible project type. Projects to replace or rehabilitate a culvert or prevent stormwater runoff for the purpose of improving habitat for aquatic species while advancing the goals of the RAISE program. Projects investing in surface transportation facilities that are located on Tribal land and for which title or maintenance responsibility is vested in the Federal Government. Any other surface transportation infrastructure project that the Secretary considers to be necessary to advance the goals of the program.

Project proposals may address the following recreational trail interests: nonmotorized trail projects, motorized trails projects, mixed-use trails projects (which facilitate both motorized and nonmotorized recreational trail use within a recreational trail corridor), trailside amenities, or trailheads. Scopes of work limited to trail planning activities are not an eligible per 62S-2.072(4)(e) F.A.C.

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Project proposals may address the following recreational trail interests: nonmotorized trail projects, motorized trails projects, mixed-use trails projects (which facilitate both motorized and nonmotorized recreational trail use within a recreational trail corridor), trailside amenities, or trailheads. Scopes of work limited to trail planning activities are not an eligible per 62S-2.072(4)(e) F.A.C.

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Planning and Design, construction. Anything related to bicycle, pedestrian or other active transportation facilities.

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