How is the USDOT Office of the Secretary awarding "flexible" multimodal discretionary grants programs?

The IIJA created many discretionary programs with multimodal project eligibilities and USDOT had the chance to award funds to many different types of projects. One of the most cost-effective ways for USDOT to help fight climate change is to stop funding, to the greatest extent possible, new highway expansion projects. The Office of the Secretary has awarded $2.8 billion to projects that build new routes or widen existing roads. Connecting these figures to published figures of emissions cost-effectiveness, we project these projects to increase cumulative 2022-2040 On-Road transportation CO2e emissions by 2.2 million tons over baseline levels as a result of new tailpipe emissions enabled by induced demand from new capacity.

Vehicle Electrification
Freight and Operations Efficiency
Highway Expansion
Highway Resurfacing
Non-GHG Reducing Infrastructure Maintenance
Public Transit and Passenger Rail
Land Use, Active Modes, & TDM
Local and Regional Project Assistance Grants (RAISE)
Highway Expansion:$280,305,489
Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects (INFRA)
Highway Expansion:$1,100,462,530
National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Megaprojects)
Highway Expansion:$1,025,000,000
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program
Highway Expansion:$462,417,319
Source: T4America analysis of categorized Invest.gov data. Retrieved 07/17/2024Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper