The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on May 11 announced a $28.5 million Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) through its Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented (TOD) Planning to invest in making mass transit “more family friendly and affordable.”
The Pilot Program, which looks to partner with communities interested in proposals that “advance safety, innovation and making commuting easier for families,” helps support FTA’s mission of “improving America’s communities through public transportation by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed-guideway or core-capacity transit capital investment,” according to the agency.
The NOFO focuses on several priority considerations for funding, including:
- “Safety: how a project advances safe journeys along corridors and at stations, and encourages a safe route to services along corridors, such as school, childcare, recreation, and social services.
- “Innovation: how a project fosters innovative approaches, partnerships with transit agencies and advocates, and promotes research, innovation and demonstration of new technologies, and policies that stimulate private sector participation, private investment, and public-private partnerships to deliver infrastructure and TOD in the corridor.
- “Benefits for Families and Communities: how a project increases transit access for families at the proposed transit station or along the corridor and how it integrates childcare and recreation near public transportation hubs.”
Applications are due July 10, 2026. More information is available here.
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