Program overview
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity Grant Program
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity Grant Program
Funding source: IIJA
Department: Department of Transportation
This program offers states, territories, local governments, public agencies, special purpose districts, and tribal governments, plus partnerships between Amtrak and one or more of these entities funding to support infrastructure and transportation projects. The money can go toward projects related to highways, bridges, public transportation, passenger or freight rail, ports, airports, culverts, and any other surface transportation infrastructure that the Secretary of Transportation considers necessary to advance the goal of the program.
Learn more: www.transportation.gov
Geographic Share
Where Is Funding Distributed?
Compare funding distributed by state
Notes: X-axis of chart is scaled logarithmically
Total funding amount in FY 2022
$2,216,865,000
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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Data level
Funding
| indicator | Equity score |
|---|---|
| Share of population who are people of color | -0.01 |
| Poverty rate | 0.17 |
| Median household income | 0.19 |
| Population density | -0.15 |
| Public transit stops | 0.5 |
| Miles of highway | 0.41 |
| Job density | 0.32 |
| Fatal accident frequency | 0.22 |
| Transit, walking, or biking commute share | 0.16 |
| Transportation costs by household | 0.13 |
| Annual vehicle miles per household | 0.05 |
| Transit commute share | -0.16 |
| Environmental staff capacity | -0.24 |
| Person trips per household | -0.29 |
| Transportation staff capacity | -0.32 |
| Commute time | -0.39 |
Community comparison
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
Share of population who are people of color by county
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.
- research Yonah Freemark, Mel Langness, Amanda Hermans, Gabe Samuels, Tomi Rajninger, and David Blount
- Design Brittney Spinner
- Data visualization and development Mitchell Thorson
- Editing Lauren Lastowka
- Writing Wesley Jenkins
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