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FY26 Bus Safety, Accessibility, and Innovation Notice of Funding Opportunity

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Next cut-off

28 Sept '26

in 22 days

Per grant

$5.0M

the call's own average

Grants expected

projects that will be funded

Funding rate

not published, read the conditions

In context of US Department of Transportation

This grant$5.0M

The track runs to the largest grant in US Department of Transportation ($56M). The median across the 15 calls we publish is $5.0M, this one is above it.

What this call funds

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for competitive awards totaling up to $10 million in Public Transportation Innovation Program (49 U.S.C. 5312) funds for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Bus Safety, Accessibility, and Innovation Research Program under Assistance Listing Number 20.530. As required by Federal public transportation law, funds will be awarded competitively to up to two projects to develop and prototype innovative and widely deployable concepts that are intended to make existing and new buses safer for their operators and vulnerable road users, and safer and more accessible for their passengers.

What applying costs you

Item	Estimate	Note
Drafting effort	3–4 weeks	single submission
Time to first payment	6–9 months	cut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

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