The bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL), section 24112 created the safe streets and roads for all (SS4A) grant program to support local initiatives to prevent deaths and serious injuries on roads…

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded $400,000 to the South Alabama Regional Planning Commission through the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program (CFDA 20.939) on August 5, 2025, with a project completion date of June 5, 2027. This planning and demonstration grant funds the development and enhancement of a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan for Mobile County, Alabama, designed to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries across all road user categories.

The grant supports supplemental planning and demonstration activities that may include road safety audits, data collection and analysis, stakeholder engagement initiatives, feasibility studies utilizing quick-build strategies, engineering evaluations, and pilot programs for behavioral, operational, and technological safety interventions. As a regional planning commission serving southwestern Alabama, the awardee is well-positioned to coordinate multijurisdictional efforts and integrate transportation safety strategies across Mobile County's communities.

The bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL), section 24112 created the safe streets and roads for all (SS4A) grant program to support local initiatives to prevent deaths and serious injuries on roads and streets. Planning and demonstration grants provide federal funds to eligible applicants to develop or complete a comprehensive safety action plan. These grants may also fund supplemental planning and demonstration activities to support or enhance an existing action plan. Supplemental planning activities could include but are not limited to: developing additional complementary safety plans; road safety audits; conducting data collection and analysis; updating existing action plans; and stakeholder engagement and collaboration. Demonstration activities could include but are not limited to: feasibility studies using quick-build strategies; various mutcd engineering studies; and pilot programs for behavioral and operational activities, as well as for new technologies. The project contained herein provides SS4A grant funds to support or enhance an action plan and/or conduct supplemental planning and/or demonstration activities in support of an action plan. IT is presented to the south alabama regional planning commission, AL for the project 'comprehensive safety action plan for mobile county'; UEI-#K254HNTCE3L7.