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Program overview

Capital Investment Grants Program

program overview / Capital Investment Grants Program

Capital Investment Grants Program

Funding source: IIJA

Department: Department of Transportation

This program offers state and local government agencies including transit agencies funding to invest in transit, including heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus rapid transit. The money can go toward new fixed guideway capital projects or small start projects and core capacity improvement projects.

Learn more: www.transit.dot.gov

Geographic Share

Where Is Funding Distributed?

Funding amount per 1,000 residents

$0
$2.3k
$5.5k
$26k

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Compare funding distributed by state

Notes: X-axis of chart is scaled logarithmically

Total funding amount in FY 2022

$3,688,699,326

Funding mechanism

Formula

Competitive

Equity measures

How equitably were funds distributed?

To explore how programs are distributing funding compared with relevant indicators of community characteristics, we developed three equity measures:

Concentration measure
How much of a program’s funding is distributed to jurisdictions with the greatest share of a selected community characteristic. Scores range from −1 to 3.

High-need equity measure
How close, on median, high-need jurisdictions are to receiving a level of funding that would meet their need, as indicated by its value for a specific community characteristic (e.g., share of residents of color). High-need jurisdictions are those above the top 50th percentile for the given community characteristic. Scores range from −1 to 1.

Variability measure
How evenly a program’s funding is distributed across the country. We only display this score, which starts at 0, for state-level, formula-funded programs.

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Concentration measure

Data level

Funding

indicator Equity score
Share of population who are people of color visualization of equity score

0.52
Poverty rate visualization of equity score

-0.84
Median household income visualization of equity score

-0.95
Population density visualization of equity score

1.16
Transit commute share visualization of equity score

1.84
Person trips per household visualization of equity score

1.75
Transit, walking, or biking commute share visualization of equity score

1.73
Car access per household visualization of equity score

1.46
Public transit stops visualization of equity score

1.42
Commute time visualization of equity score

1.17
Transportation staff capacity visualization of equity score

-0.23
Miles of highway visualization of equity score

-0.5
Annual vehicle miles per household visualization of equity score

-0.79
Job density visualization of equity score

-0.84
Transportation costs by household visualization of equity score

-0.95

Community comparison

How Is Funding Distributed by Community Characteristic?

For each program, we’ve analyzed how funding is distributed along different community characteristics. For counties, we show these distributions of funding by quintiles, and for states, we show these distributions by quartiles.

Share of population who are people of color
County

Funding is on average similar for counties with a higher share of population who are people of color than for counties with a lower share of population who are people of color compared with the national average.

Average program funding per 1,000 residents

$0 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 $1,200 $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 $2,000 $2,200 $2,400 0.0%-7.0% 7.0%-13.0% 13.0%-24.3% 24.3%-43.1% 43.1%+

Share of population who are people of color by county

About

For this tool, we analyzed 58 grant programs funded by IIJA and eight housing programs that use annual HUD appropriations. The data presented here are limited to fiscal year 2022. We collected program data from federal departmental announcements and project fact sheets. Demographic and need indicator data are sourced from approximately two dozen publicly available sources, including the 2016–20 American Community Survey 5-Year estimates from the US Census Bureau and data produced by other federal agencies.

To learn more about how to use this tool, see our User Guide. To review the complete list of data sources and methods used in this work, see our full report.

Project Credits

This data tool was funded by the Melville Charitable Trust as part of the Partnership for Equitable and Resilient Communities Initiative. We are grateful to them and to all our funders, who make it possible for Urban to advance its mission. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders. Funders do not determine research findings or the insights and recommendations of our experts. More information on our funding principles is available here. Read our terms of service here.

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