Deadline: 15-Sep-22
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is currently inviting applications for its 2022 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund (TTPSF).
The TTPSF emphasizes the development of strategic transportation safety plans using a data driven process as a means for Tribes to determine how transportation safety needs will be addressed in Tribal communities. Transportation safety plans are a tool used to identify risk factors that lead to serious injury or death and organize various entities to strategically reduce risk.
Transportation safety plans are aimed at preventing transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries in a locality that may include–
- A goal and timeline for eliminating fatalities and serious injuries;
- An analysis of the location, severity, and contributing factors of vehicle-involved crashes in a locality;
- An analysis of community input, gathered through public outreach and education;
- A data-driven approach to identify projects or strategies to prevent fatalities and serious injuries in a locality, such as those involving–
- Education and community outreach;
- Effective methods to enforce traffic laws and regulations;
- New vehicle or other transportation-related technologies; and
- Roadway planning and design; and
- Mechanisms for evaluating the outcomes and effectiveness of the transportation safety plan, including the means by which that effectiveness will be reported to residents in a locality.
Categories
- safety plans;
- data assessment, improvement, and analysis activities;
- systemic roadway departure countermeasures; and
- infrastructure improvements
Priorities
- Horizontal alignment warning signs required or recommended;
- Horizontal alignment warning signs identified as optional in MUTCD when additional risk factors exist;
- Delineators in curves;
- First installation, including design, of center line and edge line markings up to 300 feet approaching and through a horizontal curve;
- Edge line rumble stripes, including narrow longitudinal rumble strips, up to 300 feet approaching and through horizontal curves;
- Center line rumble stripes up to 300 feet approaching and through horizontal curves;
- Delineators in tangent sections;
- First installation, including design, of center line and edge line markings on tangent sections of roadway;
- Edge line rumble strips or rumble stripes on tangent sections with at least 3 feet of paved shoulder;
- Narrow longitudinal rumble stripes on tangent sections with less than 3 feet of paved shoulder;
- Center line rumble strips on tangent sections with at least 22 feet of pavement width;
- Mitigation of roadside hazards to establish or widen clear zones in horizontal curves including clearing and grubbing, removal of fixed objects, and replacement with crashworthy devices; and
- Mitigation of roadside hazards to establish or widen clear zones along tangent sections of roadway including clearing and grubbing, removal of fixed objects, and replacement with crashworthy devices but excluding roadside slope flattening.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $22,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $22,000,000
- Award Floor: $1
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants for TTPSF discretionary grants are federally recognized Indian Tribes identified on the list of “Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs”.
- Other entities may partner with a Tribal government to submit an application, but the eligible applicant must be a federally recognized Indian Tribe.
- A Tribe may submit more than one application; however, only one project may be included in each application.
- In the event a Tribe submits more than one application, each application will be evaluated separately.
- The FHWA anticipates high demand for this limited amount of funding and encourages applications with scalable requests that allow more Tribes to receive funding and applications for requests that identify a commitment of other funding sources to complement TTPSF funding requests.
- Applicants should clearly demonstrate the independent components of each project that can be completed if only partial funding is provided.
- Applicants should demonstrate the capacity to successfully implement the proposed request in a timely manner and ensure that cost estimates and timelines to complete deliverables are included in their applications.
- Recipients of prior TTPSF funds may submit applications during this current round according to the selection criteria.
- However, to be competitive, the applicant should demonstrate the extent to which the previously funded project or project has met estimated project schedules and budget, as well as the ability to realize the outcomes for previous awards.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340971