Program Summary and Objectives

• Federal Agency:  agency: department of transportation
  office: federal highway administration (fhwa)
• Program Website: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov.
• Authorization: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), Public Law 109-59, 23 U.S.C. 101 et seq., as amended.
• Headquarters: For Forest Highways, Indian Reservation Roads, Refuge Roads, and Park Roads and Parkways, contact the Associate Administrator for Federal Lands Highway, Federal Highway Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Room E61-202, S.E., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: (202) 366-9494. For all others, contact the Director, Office of Program Administration, Federal Highway Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: (202) 366-0494.

Federal-aid Highway Program: To assist State transportation agencies in the planning and development of an integrated, interconnected transportation system important to interstate commerce and travel by constructing and rehabilitating the National Highway System (NHS), including the Eisenhower Interstate System; and for transportation improvements to most other public roads; to provide aid for the repair of Federal-aid highways following disasters; to foster safe highway design; to replace or rehabilitate deficient or obsolete bridges; and to provide for other special purposes. This program also provides for the improvement of roads in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Alaska Highway. The Federal Lands Highway Program (FLHP) ... »read more, as an adjunct to the Federal Aid Highway Program, provides assistance to the Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMAs) for Federally owned roads. It provides transportation engineering services for planning, design, construction, and rehabilitation of the highways and bridges providing access to federally owned lands. The Federal Lands Highway organization also provides training, technology, deployment, engineering services, and products to other customers.

Examples of Projects Funded

20.215, Highway Training and Education; 20.219, Recreational Trails Program; 20.500, Federal Transit_Capital Investment Grants; 20.505, Federal Transit_Metropolitan Planning Grants; 20.507, Federal Transit_Formula Grants; 20.509, Formula Grants for Other Than Urbanized Areas; 20.600, State and Community Highway Safety; 23.003, Appalachian Development Highway System; 23.008, Appalachian Local Access Roads.

Program Accomplishments

The Federal-aid Highway Program has made significant contributions to the safer operation of the nation's highways, to the better intermodal connectivity of roads to other forms of transportation, and to the improvement of pavement and bridge conditions throughout the country, while helping to safeguard environmental conditions. It has provided funding for a wide range of alternatives to traditional highway construction projects to better serve transportation needs. It has developed and advanced critical new technologies, such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, and shared them with the States. The FLHP works to create the best transportation system in balance with the values of the Federal and tribal lands. The mission of the program is to improve transportation access to and within Fe ... »read morederal and tribal lands and provide technical services to the highway community.

Program Obligations
(as compiled by Subsidyscope)

Direct Expenditures Over Time