The application process for the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025 Transportation Alternatives Program, aka Surface Transportation Grant Set-Aside Program is open.
FFY 2025 Program Schedule
January 22, 2021 — Application process opens
February 26, 2021 — Applications are due
March 2021 — Public comment period
March 2021 — Applicants present projects to MPO Funding Subcommittee
March 2021 — MPO Funding Subcommittee recommends project awards
April 2021 — Recommended awards presented to MPO Policy Committee
May 2021 — MPO Policy Committee votes on final awards
FFY 2025 TAP Application
Application Questions (online submittal only)
Additional Resources
- Mobilizing Tomorrow
Chapter 2: Goals, Measures, & Targets - Chapter 4: Policies and Best Practices
- Technical Resources:
- MPO Complete Streets Sample Policy
- Local Complete Streets Sample Policy
- Recommended Roadway Design Standards
- Recommended On-Street Bicycle Facility Standards
- Recommended Parking Guidelines
- Recommended Transit Supportive Development Guidelines
- Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Recommendations
- Trail Gaps (Select correct map layer to view trail related data)
- Proven Safety Countermeasures by FHWA
- FHWA’s Pedestrian Safety Guide and Countermeasure Selection System (PEDSAFE) – Countermeasures can be selected through interactive selection matrices (crash type or performance objective) or the selection tool
- Federal Highway Administration “Guidebook on Identification of High Pedestrian Crash Locations”
- Federal Highway Administration’s PedBikeInfo Safety Tools and Analysis
- Iowa DOT’s Iowa Crash Analysis Tool (ICAT)
- MPO Environmental Justice Report
- Maps
- Iowa’s Transportation Alternatives Program
- Iowa’s Safe Routes to School Application
- USDOT Safe Routes to School Program
- Safe Routes Partnership
- Iowa Safe Routes to School