As a follow on to the Urban Partnership Program, but also as separate and distinct from that program, the U.S. Department of Transportation published a Solicitation of Applications for Funding of Congestion-Reduction Demonstration (CRD) Initiatives in the November 13, 2007 Federal Register. The application deadline was December 31, 2007. The full solicitation (HTML, PDF 73KB) and a summary of the solicitation are both available for review.
On April 25, 2008, the Department announced a $213 million CRD award to the City of Los Angeles, followed on April 29, 2008 by an announcement to award $153 million to the City of Chicago. Along with the four current Urban Partnership cities of San Francisco, Miami, Seattle, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, the Department is now supporting aggressive congestion relief programs in Los Angeles and Chicago in order to meet the objectives of the DOT Secretary's National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network, otherwise known as the Congestion Initiative. The Congestion Initiative called on the Department to enter into agreements with model cities, pursuant to their commitment to, among other things, implement "broad congestion pricing." The Federal Highway Administration's Congestion Pricing Primer discusses the importance and benefits of pricing, along with related strategies included in the Congestion Initiative.
U.S. DOT Announces Two CRD Recipients (5/5/08)
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