Tennessee Transportation Alternatives Program Profile
Tennessee’s Cumberland River Greenway | Photo by TrailLink user roeders6
State DOT Program Staff
State DOT TA Coordinator
Katie Brown
Active Transportation Team Lead
TDOT Local Programs & Community Investments Division
The Office of Active Transportation
Tennessee Department of Transportation
James K Polk Building, Suite 600
505 Deaderick St
Nashville, TN 37243-0341
Email: Katie.brown@tn.gov
FHWA Division TA Coordinator
Sonya Baker
FHWA – TN Division
404 BNA Drive, Building 200
Nashville, TN 37217
Tel: 615-781-5788
Email: sonya.baker@dot.gov
State DOT Website: Tennessee DOT
TA Program Structure, Policies, and Procedures
- Application timeline: The TAP application cycle is open annually from August 1st through the first Friday in October. Please see website for more information.
- TA program structure: Program is run through a state level TAP office. All TAP projects are to be locally managed, designed, and competitively bid.
- Application tips: TDOT will only accept applications through the eGrants system. The submission must still include the necessary budget, detailed maps, photographs, preliminary sketches and support letters.
- Standardized budget templates are available as a link in eGrants. Printable working copies of a previous blank application, instruction booklet and template are located below. Line items can be added or deleted as needed for any stage utilizing TDOT line item numbers when available, however, the TAP budget template itself must be used. Note: the structural template tab is for Historic Preservation and Rehabilitation of Historic Transportation Facilities only.
- Who is eligible to apply: Local governments or state natural resource or public land agencies.
- Application components: Purpose and need, project status, system linkage, social/economic conditions, land use, safety, cost, support from eligible agency, and public support.
- Selection criteria: Relationship to the proposed project to surface transportation, verification that the project meets one or more of the 10 eligible activities, maps provided illustrate how the project will enhance local transportation infrastructure, relationship of the project to existing, proposed or future state and local transportation plans, and detailed project budget template prepared per the instructions.
- Is there an advisory committee?: No
- Project award minimum: $250,000.
- Project award maximum: None
- Typical local match: 20%
More information on TDOT’s TA program can be found here.
