Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grants- Due May 16

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) offers grants to improve road safety and prevent injuries and death on streets and roads. Applicants are advised that required registrations may take several weeks to complete. There are two types of SS4A grants: Planning and Demonstration Grants and Implementation Grants. The purpose of SS4A grants is to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries through safety action plan development and refinement and implementation focused on all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, motorists, personal conveyance and micromobility users, and commercial vehicle operators. The program provides funding to develop the tools to help strengthen a community’s approach to roadway safety and save lives and is designed to meet the needs of diverse local, tribal, and regional communities that differ dramatically in size, location, and experience administering Federal funding.

The SS4A program provides funding for two main types of grants: planning and demonstration grants for comprehensive safety action plans, including supplemental safety planning, and/or safety demonstration activities; and implementation grants. Planning and demonstration grants are used to develop, complete, or supplement a comprehensive safety action plan, as well as carry out demonstration activities that inform an action plan.

Successful grant applications will:

• Promote safety to prevent death and serious injuries on public roadways
• employ low-cost, high-impact strategies that can improve safety over a wide geographic area
• ensure equitable investment in the safety needs of underserved communities, which includes both underserved urban and rural communities
• incorporate evidence-based projects and strategies and adopt innovative technologies and strategies
• demonstrate engagement with a variety of public and private stakeholders
• and align with the department’s mission and strategic goals such as safety, climate change and sustainability, equity and Justice40; and workforce development, job quality, and wealth creation.

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