Metropolitan planning; FY26 MPO planning allocation

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) a Formula Grant totaling $318,510.08 on June 17, 2025, under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205). This award funds metropolitan planning activities for Fiscal Year 2026 across twenty Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) throughout North Carolina, including major urban centers such as Asheville, Charlotte (CRTPO/Mecklenburg County), Greensboro, Raleigh-Durham (DCHC), and Wilmington. The funding supports comprehensive transportation planning capabilities and coordination efforts essential to developing, maintaining, and improving multimodal transportation infrastructure at the regional level.

Under the Highway Planning and Construction program framework, these MPO planning allocations enable state and local transportation agencies to conduct planning, design, environmental review, and coordination activities necessary for highway and transportation infrastructure projects. The formula-based distribution reflects the FHWA's statutory allocation mechanism established under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), ensuring that planning resources are distributed across North Carolina's designated metropolitan areas to support transportation development priorities identified through state and local planning processes.

Project description

Metropolitan planning: FY26 MPO planning allocation; asheville(FBRMPO); burlington MPO; cabarrus MPO; campo MPO; crtpo/mecklenburg county; dchc MPO; fayetteville MPO; gastonia MPO; goldsboro MPO; gsats MPO; greensboro MPO; greenville MPO; hickory MPO; high point MPO; jacksonville MPO; new bern MPO; rocky mount MPO; wilmington MPO; winston-salem MPO; sandhills MPO