The Vermont Agency of Transportation received a $2.8 million formula grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under the National Priority Safety Programs federal grant program (CFDA 20.616) to address distracted driving from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The formula grant funding will support the agency's efforts to encourage the state to address distracted driving, a key national highway safety priority identified by Congress under the National...
The Vermont Agency of Transportation received a $187,000 formula grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to support enforcement of the state's distracted driving laws. Funded under the National Priority Safety Programs formula grant program (CFDA 20.616), the award provides flexibility to use funds for any eligible activity under the Section 402 grant program, including educational advertising, placement of traffic signs, and law enforcement activities from October 1,...
This $2.9 million formula grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration supports the Vermont Agency of Transportation's efforts to address distracted driving through 2026. Funded by the National Priority Safety Programs and its Distracted Driving Countermeasures incentive grant program, the award provides flexibility for education advertising, traffic signage installation, and law enforcement activities to reduce distracted driving injuries and deaths. The grant aims to encourage...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), under its National Priority Safety Programs (CFDA 20.616) formula grant, awarded $219,712.94 to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) on October 1, 2024. This grant supports VTrans' efforts to develop and implement distracted driving prevention programs consistent with federal requirements. The funding will enable VTrans to enact and enforce laws prohibiting texting while driving or youth cell phone use while driving, as well as...
This $241,290.63 Distracted Driving Awareness Grant, awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (CFDA 20.616 National Priority Safety Programs), supports the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) in implementing certain state distracted driving programs consistent with federal regulations. The funding enables VTrans to develop and execute evidence-based strategies aimed at reducing motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities resulting from distracted driving through...
The Vermont Agency of Transportation received a $1,342,771.50 formula grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under the National Priority Safety Programs (CFDA 20.616) to support impaired driving countermeasures from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funds will support certain costs of Vermont's alcohol-impaired driving programs consistent with 23 C.F.R. 1300.23(j) through sub-awards to the Vermont Department of Public Safety, Vermont Department of...
The Vermont Agency of Transportation was awarded a $391,567.35 Formula Grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under the National Priority Safety Programs (CFDA 20.616) to support improvements to the state's traffic safety information systems from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funding will be used to support data program improvements through two sub-awards totaling the full award amount. The Vermont Department of Public Safety will receive funding to...
The Vermont Agency of Transportation was awarded $387,474.29 under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Priority Safety Programs formula grant to support data program improvements through the Section 405(c) State Traffic Safety Information System Improvements grant program. This grant aims to improve the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, uniformity, accessibility, and integration of Vermont's core highway safety databases. The funding will support these efforts from...
The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded a $1,492,977.06 Formula Grant under the National Priority Safety Programs (CFDA 20.616) to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). This grant, effective from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2028, supports VTrans' implementation of impaired driving countermeasures and other safety initiatives to reduce motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities in Vermont. The Formula Grant funding...
The Vermont Agency of Transportation received a $1,380,242.66 formula grant award from the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to support certain costs of the state's alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures programs under the National Priority Safety Programs grant. The formula grant funding will allow the Agency to deliver services consistent with the program's goal of encouraging states to address national highway safety priorities like impaired...