Assistance program
Highway Research and Development Program
$1.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Highway Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.200
- What it does
- The objective is to carry out the highway research and development program as authorized by the FAST Act and conduct research needed to maintain and improve our vital transportation infrastructure. The FAST Act addresses the many challenges facing our transportation system today by providing funding for improving highway safety, improving infrastructure integrity, strengthening transportation planning and environmental decision making, reducing congestion, improving highway operations, enhancing freight movement productivity, and exploratory advanced research.
- Who benefits
- State Departments of Transportation, Local Governments, General Public
- Who applies
- Varies by project. See individual project NOFO for details. (NOFOs issued at www.Grants.gov.)
- Authorized by
- Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act)
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)
- Program site
- https://highways.dot.gov/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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