This is the third and final blog in the transportation-related grant funding series. This post highlights the federally funded Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program. Below, we discuss key elements of the program and highlight services Hagerty offers its transportation clients that align with the program’s mission. The SS4A Program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 application window is open until May 26, 2026. For this and other related grant opportunities, visit Grants.Gov.
Why Protective Resilience Measures Matter
Across the United States (US), aging transportation infrastructure is creating growing safety, mobility, and reliability risks. Roadways, bridges, and critical travel routes were not designed for today’s high traffic volumes, population growth, , and increasingly severe weather conditions. At the same time, extreme heat, freezing temperatures, heavy rainfall, flooding, and other climate-related impacts are accelerating infrastructure damage and deterioration. These conditions can increase motor vehicle crashes, disrupt local and regional economies through delays and infrastructure damage, and limit emergency access for first responders during incidents.
SS4A Program Overview
The SS4A Grant Program is designed to improve transportation safety by helping communities identify risks across roadways, corridors, and mobility systems and implement strategies to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. As transportation networks face growing demand, aging infrastructure, and environmental impacts, the program supports proactive, data-driven safety planning through the development of comprehensive safety action plans, identification of high-risk corridors and intersections, community engagement, and implementation of targeted infrastructure, operational, and behavioral safety improvements.
At the core of the program is the development of a comprehensive safety action plan that outlines strategies to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries at the local, regional, or Tribal level. To support this, SS4A provides funding through two primary grant types:
- Planning and Demonstration Grants – Support the development, completion, or enhancement of an action plan, as well as supplemental safety planning and demonstration activities.
- Implementation Grants – Fund projects and strategies that address identified roadway safety risks and are aligned with an existing action plan.
Program Eligibility
The SS4A Grant Program is open to a range of applicants, including metropolitan planning organizations, counties, cities, towns, Tribal governments and multijurisdictional groups. Planning and Demonstration Grants support the development or enhancement of comprehensive safety action plans, while Implementation Grants require applicants to have an existing eligible action plan in place. Applicants may also submit their action plans for pre-application review to confirm eligibility prior to applying.
Funding History
Established in 2021 through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, SS4A Grant Program began distributing funding in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, with approximately $1 billion available annually. In FY 2025 alone, the program awarded 521 grants totaling nearly $1 billion, including 454 Planning and Demonstration Grants ($295.7 million) and 67 Implementation Grants ($686.5 million). These investments target high risk roadways that have experienced nearly 1,000 fatalities and over 7,000 fatal injuries while also supporting post-crash care incentives and directing significant funding to rural and Tribal communities.
A Trusted Partner in Transportation Resilience and Emergency Management
Hagerty helps transportation agencies strengthen resilience, improve operational readiness, and reduce disruption risks across roadways, rail systems, ports, and mass transit networks. Our approach focuses not only on preparing for major incidents, but also on addressing the long-term stressors—such as aging infrastructure, deferred maintenance, and extreme weather—that increase vulnerability over time. By combining preparedness, planning, and operational support, Hagerty helps transportation partners build safer, more resilient infrastructure aligned with federal funding priorities.
- Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) Support: Hagerty supports transportation clients, including some of the nation’s largest rail networks and state Departments of Motor Vehicles (DMVs), with continuity planning services such as Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and Business Impact Analyses (BIAs). These efforts identify essential functions, lines of succession, and critical dependencies to help organizations maintain operations and recover quickly during disruptions.
- Trainings and Exercises: Our experts develop and facilitate training and exercise programs that strengthen operational coordination, communication, and incident response capabilities. Our experience includes supporting maritime and transportation clients in preparing for and responding to severe weather, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other large-scale incidents.
- Plan Development: Hagerty develops customized emergency management and resilience plans tailored to transportation sector needs. Our experience includes Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs), Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs), coastal evacuation and re-entry plans, hazard-specific annexes, and Public Information and Warning (PI&W) plans designed to improve preparedness, response, and long-term resilience.
Additional Services
Alongside our resilience-focused capabilities, Hagerty provides services that strengthen transportation partners’ preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities, including:
- Achieving and maintaining Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) accreditation;
- Developing After-Action Reports (AARs) following real-world incidents and/or exercises; Providing grant management services, such as fund identification and application assistance; Delivering homeland security-focused services, including threat and vulnerability assessments, plan development, and training and exercises.
Hagerty Can Help
Hagerty helps clients strengthen preparedness, improve resilience, and navigate complex recovery and funding challenges. Our services span preparedness, emergency management, resilience planning, grants management, and disaster recovery support, helping clients protect critical infrastructure and maintain operational continuity before, during, and after disruptive events.
Hagerty also supports clients in identifying, securing, and managing federal funding opportunities, with experience administering and approximately $95 billion in federal funds on behalf of our clients. Learn more about Hagerty’s transportation services here.