The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has awarded 388 million USD worth of funding to 34 projects under the FY26 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program.
All funds will be used to provide financial assistance to both states and public agencies to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses, vans, and related equipment; and for capital projects to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities.
The FTA received 479 eligible project proposals in response to its Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) – a requested total of approximately 6.8 billion USD worth of federal funds. All project proposals were then evaluated based on each applicant’s responsiveness to programme evaluation criteria outlined in the NOFO.
Overall, a minimum of 15% of the amount of funding made available for the Bus Competitive Program is set aside for projects located in rural areas, which is reflected in FTA’s joint selections across FY25 and FY26. A statutory cap of 10% for any one applicant within the Bus Competitive Program is also reflected.
All selected applicants will be required to work with their FTA Regional Office to submit a grant application in FTA’s Transit Award Management System (TrAMS) in order to swiftly obligate funds, with all grant applications required to include only eligible activities applied for in the original project proposal.
The full list of recipients can be found on the Federal Register, here.
