Jan. 22, 2024: Grant awardees announced
Planning Assistance solicitation guide
Our program will help your community create an active transportation plan with help from a consultant. The goal is to help more people safely walk and bicycle to destinations where they live, work and play. Active transportation plans will:
- Analyze existing conditions
- Engage the community
- Identify ways to improve infrastructure
- Identify ways to encourage active transportation
How it works
- We'll award up to $800,000 worth of consultant support through the Active Transportation Program each year from 2022 through 2024.
- Your community doesn't receive funding directly from MnDOT.
- Your community receives help from a selected consultant. We don't require the community to provide matching funds.
- The consultant provides monthly reports, and we review them to ensure progress on plans.
Timing of planning assistance
- The next round of planning assistance is expected to be announced in fall 2024.
Eligible groups
- Cities
- Counties
- Federally recognized tribal nations
- Regional development organizations
- Metropolitan planning organizations
- Nonprofit organizations and other groups (with letter of support from local government who will own the plan)
Multiorganization collaborative applications are also welcome through this solicitation.
Notification
- We announced application scores and awards in January 2024
- We'll implement contracts in spring 2024