FY 2026 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning

DOT - Federal Transit Administration

Published: May 11, 2026

Updated: Jun 11, 2026

Source: grants_gov

About This Opportunity

United States procurement, transport & logistics: FY 2026 Pilot Program for. Issued by DOT - Federal Transit Administration. Submission deadline Jul 2026.

This is a grants contract in the transport and logistics sector. Located in United States, North America, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums. Proposals must be submitted before July 10, 2026.

Published through Grants.gov, a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for grants in the transport and logistics sector. Grant applications generally require a detailed project proposal, a clear results framework, and evidence of the applicant's capacity to deliver the proposed activities. Interested parties should review the full documentation on the original source before submitting their proposal.

Description

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for approximately $28.5 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding. The Pilot Program for TOD Planning helps support FTA’s mission of improving public transportation for America’s communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning around a new fixed guideway or core capacity improvement project. Per statute, any comprehensive or site specific planning funded through the program must examine ways to improve economic development and ridership, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations.

Agency: Johnita S Glover
Transportation Program Analyst

CFDA: 20.541

Eligible Applicants: Any comprehensive or site-specific planning work proposed for funding under this program must be associated with an eligible transit capital project, namely a new fixed guideway project or a core capacity improvement project as defined in Section 5309(a) of title 49, United States Code. These statutory definitions are also provided in Section 2 of the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO). Projects are not required to be within the Capital Investment Grants Program. Applicants and eventual grant recipients under this program must be existing FTA grantees as of the publication date of the NOFO. A proposer must either be the project sponsor of an eligible transit capital project as defined above or an entity with land use planning authority in an eligible transit capital project corridor. Evidence of a partnership between these two types of entity will be required unless the applicant has both responsibilities.

Please refer to the NOFO for further information. Only one application per transit capital project corridor may be submitted to FTA. Multiple applications submitted for a single transit capital project corridor indicate to FTA that partnerships are not in place, and FTA will reject all of the applications.

Applicant Types: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Cost Sharing: Yes

More Info: FTA NOFO website — https://www.transit.dot.gov/notices-funding/fy-2026-notice-funding-opportunity-pilot-program-transit-oriented-development

Contact: Johnita S Glover
Transportation Program Analyst

Email: April.McLeanMcCoy@dot.gov

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