Accessing Federal Trail Funding: Understanding Transportation Alternatives

Learn how to make your application for a RAISE grant from USDOT competitive. You will hear from panelists who have built community and political support for their applications that make them really stand out.

This webinar covers generating state funds appropriated by legislatures, and on successful bills, impactful funding mechanisms, game-changing coalitions and effective campaigns that are making a difference.

WEBINAR - Trails & Utilities: A Powerful Partnership

Whether you are building a new trail or already maintaining one, it is critical to determine your maintenance costs. Once you determine baseline costs you can more accurately determine if your practices and methods are cost-effective. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, together with several local trail managers, has created a worksheet to enable you to capture your maintenance costs and compare them to other trails. Some examples are given in the table below.

Making the Most of Federal Transportation Funds in Your State Webinar

The purpose of this table is to quickly give a general sense of the routine maintenance cost per mile of various types of multiuse trails in different regions of the United States.

Transportation Alternatives Spending Report Fiscal Years 1992–2021 August 2022. Prepared by Transportation Alternatives Data Exchange

The analysis looked at the trail’s potential to bring visitors, businesses, spending, jobs, income and tax revenue to the communities along its 3,700-mile route and found the trail will contribute $161 million to the GDP each year.