Description
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $28,492,618 in competitive grants for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning. The program aims to support FTA’s mission of improving public transportation for America’s communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning around a new fixed guideway or core capacity improvement project. Key aspects of the program include:
• Examining ways to improve economic development and ridership
• Fostering multimodal connectivity and accessibility
• Improving transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic
• Engaging the private sector
• Identifying infrastructure needs
• Enabling mixed-use development near transit stations
Eligible applicants include existing FTA grantees as of the publication date of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).