Opportunity Information: Apply for FTA 2019 006 TSO
The Innovations in Transit Public Safety grant opportunity (FTA 2019 006 TSO) was a national, competitive funding solicitation run by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA). It offered a total of $2 million in discretionary grant funding through the Public Transportation Innovation Program, authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5312 and updated under the FAST Act (Public Law 114-94). The call was issued for Fiscal Year 2019 projects, with the opportunity created on March 29, 2019 and an original application deadline of May 28, 2019. The program was listed under CFDA 20.530, placing it within FTA's broader set of transit assistance and innovation programs.
The central goal of the program was to fund practical, innovative solutions that improve safety and security across public transit systems. In particular, the solicitation emphasized three priority problem areas: reducing or eliminating human trafficking occurring on transit networks, protecting transit operators from assault and related workplace violence risks, and reducing crime on transit vehicles and at transit facilities. In other words, the funding was meant to support new approaches, tools, strategies, or practices that transit agencies and their partners could test, refine, and potentially replicate to make transit environments safer for riders and frontline employees.
Eligibility was broad and included state governments, counties, cities or townships, and eligible nonprofit organizations with IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The listing also indicated that other applicant types could be eligible as described in additional eligibility guidance within the full notice. Overall, this structure suggests the program was intended not only for transit agencies themselves, but also for local and state governmental partners and nonprofit organizations positioned to work alongside transit providers on anti-trafficking initiatives, operator protection efforts, and crime reduction strategies.
Awards were expected to be made to roughly 25 recipients, indicating an intention to distribute relatively modest, pilot-friendly grants across multiple locations rather than concentrating all funds into a small number of large projects. The notice listed an award ceiling of $0, which typically signals that the agency did not set a single maximum award amount in the posting and would instead size awards based on project scope, merit, and available funding. As a competitive solicitation, proposals would be evaluated using selection criteria described in the full opportunity announcement, with funding decisions focused on which projects best advanced the program's public safety innovation objectives and demonstrated a strong, workable plan for implementation and results.Apply for FTA 2019 006 TSO
- The Department of Transportation, DOT/Federal Transit Administration in the transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Innovations in Transit Public Safety" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.530.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 29, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 28, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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