Section 402 state and community highway safety grant (23 C.F.R. Subpart b to part 1300; 23 U.S.C. & 402) - grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved triennial highway…

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) was awarded a $150,000 Formula Grant under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600) administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This grant will fund RIDOT's implementation of highway safety programs and countermeasures detailed in the state's approved triennial Highway Safety Plan. The grant supports a range of behavioral safety initiatives, including occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, traffic records improvements, emergency medical services, and non-motorized safety enhancements. RIDOT will utilize these funds to coordinate statewide traffic safety efforts, while also sub-awarding portions to local partners for targeted safety projects and programs across Rhode Island. The grant period extends from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027.

Section 402 state and community highway safety grant (23 C.F.R. Subpart b to part 1300; 23 U.S.C. & 402) - grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved triennial highway safety plan. Section 402 funding facilitates a coordinated national highway safety program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. A state may use these grant funds only for behavioral highway safety purposes. These funds are apportioned using statutory apportionment formula. These funds are provided to the state and territorial highway safety offices based on an approved triennial highway safety plan that details problem identification, public participation and engagement, performance measures, countermeasure strategies for programming funds and an approved annual grant application that details planned projects using identified countermeasure strategies for programming funds to help reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.