Assistance program
Congestion Relief Program
$2.2 Million committed in FY2026–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Highway Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 20.269
- What it does
- The goals of the program are to reduce highway congestion, reduce economic and environmental costs associated with that congestion, including transportation emissions, and optimize existing highway capacity and usage of highway and transit systems through: (1) improving intermodal integration with highways, highway operations, and highway performance; (2) reducing or shifting highway users to off- peak travel times or to nonhighway travel modes during peak travel times; and (3) pricing of, or based on, as applicable, parking; use of roadways, including in designated geographic zones; or congestion. This Assistance Listing 20.269 created in August 2025 was included in the previous ALN 20.205, please refer to former ALN 20.205 for FY24 and FY25 financial obligations. The new Assistance Listing 20.269 will be utilized by DOT at the start of FY 2026.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- A state, Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), city, or municipality carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population greater than 1,000,000. [§ 11404; 23 U.S.C 129(d)(1)(A)]
- Authorized by
- 23 U.S.C. § 129(d)
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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments