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The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) today awarded $511 million worth of grants to support 46 projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico through the discretionary Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. This is the third round of TIGER grants.

A few of the results from the above database:

• 19 road projects will receive 42% of the total funding; 12 rail projects will receive 28% of the funding; and 10 transit projects will receive 25% of the funding. The remaining goes to four bicycle/pedestrian projects (3%) and one Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) project (2%)
• Projects in rural areas receive 29% of funding
• There were three TIFIA grants awarded, worth $45 million. This is far below the $150 million that was available for USDOT to award in TIFIA grants. This is disappointing because TIFIA funds leverage private funds (one TIFIA dollar supports as much as 30 dollars of project spending) to support a project; if USDOT had awarded the full amount of TIFIA grants, that could have resulted in as much as $3 billion in additional project investment.
• Three states received three grants (Illinois, California, Pennsylvania); 12 states received two grants each; 18 states and Puerto Rico received one grant each.
• 17 states did not receive funding this round (Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin)
• Illinois received the greatest amount of grants ($44.3 million); Alaska the least ($1 million)