FTA Announces FY26 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program

FTA awarded $388 million for 34 projects under the FY 2026 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program. Recipients, project descriptions, and award amounts are listed in the Federal Register (see Table 1).

The funds will provide financial assistance to states and eligible public agencies to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses, vans, and related equipment; and for capital projects to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. In response to its Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), FTA received 479 eligible project proposals requesting approximately $6.8 billion in federal funds. Project proposals were evaluated based on each applicant’s responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria outlined in the NOFO.

A minimum of 15 percent of the amount made available for the Bus Competitive Program is set aside for projects located in rural areas, which is reflected in FTA’s joint selections across FY25 and FY26. A statutory cap of 10 percent for any one applicant in the Bus Competitive Program is reflected as well.

Recipients selected for competitive funding are required to work with their FTA Regional Office to submit a grant application in FTA’s Transit Award Management System (TrAMS) to quickly obligate funds. A discretionary project identification number has been assigned to each project for tracking purposes and must be used in the TrAMS application. Grant applications must include only eligible activities applied for in the original project proposal.