Turning your active transportation plan into reality starts with finding the right funding. KDOT’s comprehensive guide helps you navigate various funding opportunities for projects like improving sidewalks, creating bike lanes, and enhancing pedestrian safety. 

KDOT Funding Opportunities 

• KDOT’s Cost Share Program: Call for projects each spring and fall 
• Transportation Alternatives: Call for Projects expected February 2026
• Innovative Technology Program: Projects must address important transportation needs such as safety, access, mobility, and new technology implementation
• Economic Development: Funds transportation improvements that will recruit new businesses and encourage growth of existing businesses. 

External Funding Opportunities

• Kansas Department of Commerce Community Development Block Grant
• USDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Funding Opportunities Table 
• KDWP Recreation Trail Program: Funds recreational trails, trail heads and amenities, etc. 
• Sunflower Trails: Funds trails and trail champion cohorts. 
• AARP Community Challenge: Provides small grants to fund “quick-action” projects that make a community more livable for people of all ages and abilities. 
• People for Bikes: Grants to support bicycle infrastructure projects and targeted advocacy initiatives that make it easier and safer for people of all ages and abilities to ride. 

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