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About the Program

Overview Discretionary & Competitive Federal Grant Program Authorized up to $4.6 billion per year, subject to Congressional appropriations Funds light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, streetcar, and bus rapid transit projects IIJA outlines: Multi-year, multi-step process...

National Transit Reporting Tool

To access the NTD Reporting Tool log in using your Login.gov information which matches your email address associated with NTD.  When logging in, please click on "If you are an External User, click this link to log in" from the landing page.

On Sept. 10, 2021, FTA began using...

Multimodal Discretionary Grants (TIGER)

This page is about DOT's TIGER grants.  For information about FTA's TIGGER (Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction) program visit Grants Program.

ARRA made $1.5 billion available to the Department of Transportation for a multi-modal discretionary program...

Capital Investment Grants

ARRA appropriated $750 Million for Capital Investment Grants.  The funds are for major capital projects eligible under the discretionary Section 5309 New Starts/Small Starts program, with statutory consideration to be given to projects already under construction and that could obligate...

Tribal Transit [Section 5311 (c)]

Tribal Transit Program

ARRA set aside 2.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the Section 5311 program to be distributed to Indian Tribes under the provisions of FTA’s Tribal Transit Program. FTA published a Federal Register Notice on March 23, 2009 (PDF) announcing the availability of $17...

Transit Investments in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER)

This page is about FTA's TIGGER program.  For information about DOT's TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants visit http://www.dot.gov/recovery/.

ARRA made available $100 million for a discretionary program to support transit capital projects that...

Fixed Guideway Infrastructure Investment

The March 5, 2009, Federal Register Notice (PDF) included an apportionment table for the $742.5 million provided to urbanized areas through the Section 5309 Fixed Guideway Modernization program.  Funds were apportioned directly to 39 urbanized areas under the first four tiers of the seven-...

First Obligation Deadline

ARRA (Federal Register, Volume 74, No. 42, March 5, 2009 (PDF) and (Federal Register, Volume 74, No. 42, March 5, 2009 (HTML) included apportionment tables for the $5.4 billion provided to urbanized areas through the Section 5307 program; $765.8 million provided to 54 States and territories...

Non-Urbanized Area Formula (Section 5311)

The March 5, 2009, Federal Register Notice (PDF) included an apportionment table for the $765.8 million provided to 54 States and territories for non-urbanized areas through the Section 5311 program.  Fifty percent of each of these apportionments must be obligated by September 1, 2009, to...

Urbanized Area Formula (Section 5307)

Urbanized Area Formula Program

The March 5, 2009, Federal Register Notice (PDF) included apportionment tables for the $5.4 billion provided to urbanized areas through the Section 5307 program.  Funds were apportioned directly to the 38 urbanized areas over 1 million population and 114...