FY 2024 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Pilot Program

Background
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $4.7 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 competitive grant funding to support transit services for the FY 2024 Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility (ICAM) pilot program. Under the ICAM pilot program, funds awarded will finance innovative capital projects for the transportation-disadvantaged, with the goal to improve the coordination of transportation services and non-emergency medical transportation services for older adults, people with disabilities, and people of low income. As required by Federal public transportation law and subject to appropriations, funds will be awarded competitively to eligible applicants.

Grant Details
Section 3006(b) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act authorizes FTA to award grants for ICAM pilot projects that improve the coordination of transportation services and NEMT services for transportation disadvantaged populations. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized funding for FY 2022 through FY 2026. In the FY 2024 program, FTA intends to target funding for regional and statewide mobility management capital projects that support coordination and enable comprehensive community access, including access to NEMT, for underserved groups. Successful projects will prioritize coordination, including coordination with recipients of funding from Federal agencies that are members of the Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM).

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants are entities eligible as direct or designated recipients under the Section 5310 program, including: State departments of transportation, designated recipients for Section 5310 funds, or local governmental entities that operate a public transportation service, or their eligible subrecipients that have the authority and technical capacity to implement a regional or statewide cost allocation pilot. Private entities that provide shared-ride on-demand service to the general public on a regular basis are operators of public transportation and are therefore eligible subrecipients.

Period of Performance
Applicants must submit completed proposals through GRANTS.GOV 'APPLY' function by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time February 13, 2024.

Grant Value
$4.7 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 competitive grant funding is available under the ICAM pilot program. An additional $4.8 million is authorized for FY 2024 and FTA may award additional funding made available to the program prior to the announcement of project selections.