Grants and Funding
2024-2025 Planning and Programming Grant Applications are OPEN NOW!
KDOT’s Planning and Programming (P&P) Grants provide resources to assist communities throughout the state create their SRTS plans, which can both help them plan for future SRTS efforts and build community momentum around walking, biking, and rolling to school. Applications for the 2024-2025 school year P&P grants are due by 5pm on May 3, 2024. Read the P&P Grants Overview to learn more about the program, watch a recording of our information webinar (held on April 15, 2024), and apply here.
2023-2024 Planning and Programming Grant Awards
Congratulations to our first class of Planning and Programming (P&P) Grant awardees! The KDOT SRTS Program is looking forward to work with the following communities to create SRTS plans and fund effort that will get SRTS momentum going in communities throughout the state. Follow us on social media for updates and highlights from these efforts!
Planning Grant Recipients
City of Emporia
City of Parsons
City of Belle Plaine
USD336 – Holton
Rossville Community Foundation
Kick Start Grant Recipients
Rushton Elementary School (Mission)
Moundridge Parents and Teachers Together
Stanton County (Johnson City)
USD482 – Dighton
Isley Traditional Magnet Elementary School, USD259/Wichita, City of Bel Aire
Randolph Elementary School, Topeka (Topeka Community Cycle Project)
St. George Elementary (St. George)
Transportation Alternatives Program
The Kansas Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program remains an eligible program under the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), signed into law November 2021, which reauthorized transportation funding and includes significant increases and changes to active transportation funding programs. Through the Kansas SRTS Program, funds are available to provide resources, technical assistance, and project funding to encourage and enable students in grades K–12 to walk, bike, or roll to school. A comprehensive approach to SRTS includes both infrastructure and non-infrastructure countermeasures and programs.
Eligible projects include:
Trails and paths
ADA and sidewalk upgrades
Streetscape improvements
And more!
On Feb 1, 2024, KDOT initiated the 2024 Call for Applications for the federal Transportation Alternatives program. KDOT hosted webinars that introduced and explained the program, and were specific to the two types of funding available – construction projects (including SRTS construction projects) and SRTS non-construction projects.
The recordings and slides are available on the TA webpage and below:
TA Construction Focused Webinar:
TA Safe Routes to School Non-Construction Focused Webinar:
Have additional questions? Learn more about the Transportation Alternatives Program here, review our Q&A document, or email KDOT's SRTS Coordinator, Ann Katt, at ann.katt@ks.gov.