Assistance program
High-Speed Rail Corridors and Intercity Passenger Rail Service – Capital Assistance Grants
-$940.4 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Railroad Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.319
- What it does
- To assist in financing the capital costs of facilities, infrastructure, and equipment necessary to provide or improve high-speed rail and intercity passenger rail service. Funds were made available pursuant to three authorized programs: Intercity Passenger Rail Service Corridor Capital Assistance, Congestion Grants; and High-Speed Rail Corridor Development.
- Who benefits
- The general public, both users and non-users of intercity passenger rail service. State departments of transportation and other public agencies, although private transportation companies may participate through contractual arrangements with a State department of transportation.
- Who applies
- States (including the District of Columbia), groups of states, interstate compacts, public agencies established by one or more states and having responsibility for providing intercity passenger rail service or high-speed passenger rail service, Amtrak, Amtrak in cooperation with states.
- Authorized by
- The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA)
- Program site
- https://railroads.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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments