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 highway safety…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Department of Transportation Maryland $288,493.77 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600), Section 402, to conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with the state's approved Highway Safety Plan through September 30, 2029. The award funds coordinated highway safety initiatives designed to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. Work is performed in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Section 402 formula grants are apportioned to state highway safety offices based on approved triennial and annual grant applications that identify problems, establish performance measures, and detail countermeasure strategies for programming funds. Maryland's recent grant portfolio under this program emphasizes occupant protection, impaired and distracted driving enforcement and education, motorcyclist safety, nonmotorized road user safety, and traffic records system improvements. The department frequently partners with sub-recipients including state agencies, local governments, universities, and nonprofits to execute targeted highway safety projects, including Maryland Highway Safety Office staffing support and initiatives such as the "Look Alive" pedestrian and bicycle safety campaign in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

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 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.