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Grant Funding

Winning grant funding takes more than just a well-written application. It requires understanding funding guidelines and the reviewing agency’s goals, creating a strong project story, aligning outcomes with broader priorities, and backing it up with clear data. Our deep expertise in cost-benefit analysis, safety, transportation forecasting, multimodal operations, and goods movement helps agencies successfully apply for grants at regional, state, and federal levels. Over the past 10 years, we’ve helped agencies secure funding for 130 projects across the US, bringing in over $1 billion for important improvements.

Our Expertise

Whether developing full applications or providing key analyses, we help turn project visions into funded realities. Clients come to us for:

• Full Grant Application Development: Crafting tailored data-driven stories that clearly convey project purpose, need, and impact.
• Grant Strategy and Guidance: Aligning projects with funding priorities for maximum success and proactively discussing potential scores with clients.
• Cost-Benefit and Other Technical Analyses: Conducting feasibility studies, ridership forecasts, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reduction estimates, cost-benefit analyses, economic benefit assessments, user demand estimates, safety analyses, and more.
• Multimodal and Goods Movement Expertise: Enhancing mobility, safety, equity, and efficiency across all transportation modes.
• Grant Tracking and Funding Updates: Keeping clients informed on funding cycles, eligibility, changing grant agency requirements, and new opportunities.
• Successful Award Implementation: Providing post-award support to advance funded projects effectively, including proper reporting and award documentation.

Why We’re Trusted

Clients trust us to simplify the complicated grant process, whether they’re improving safety, connecting communities, or building transformative projects. We make it easier for them to confidently apply for—and win—the funding they need. Our expertise covers funding programs such as:

• Federal Funding:
• USDOT Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A)
• USDOT BUILD/RAISE/TIGER Discretionary Grants
• USDOT CMAQ Grants
• USDOT INFRA Grants
• USDOT Rural Grants
• USDOT CRISI Grants
• USDOT MEGA Grants
• USDOT PIDP Grants
• USDOT/FTA Low or No Emission (Lo-No) Grants
• US DOT/FHWA Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
• California State and Regional Funding:
• Caltrans Active Transportation Program (ATP), State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), HSIP, Reconnecting Communities, and Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants
• California Transportation Commission’s SB 1 Programs such as the Trade Corridor Enhancement Program (TCEP), Local Partnership Program (LPP), and Solutions for Congested Corridors Program (SCCP)
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Regional Funding Programs including One Bay Area Grants (OBAG)
• Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) Regional Funding Programs (Regional/Local, Community Design, Bicycle & Pedestrian)
• Additional State and Regional Funding:
• Colorado DOT Multimodal Transportation and Mitigation Options Fund (MMOF) Grants
• Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
• North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program
• Utah DOT Transit Innovations Grant
• Utah Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) CMAQ Grants
• Washington Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) Grants
• Washington DOT Active Transportation Grants
• Washington Department of Commerce Transit Oriented Development Implementation (TODI) Grants

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