Transportation Enhancement Activities

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) replaced the Transportation Enhancement (TE) Activities with the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP).

The Transportation Enhancement (TE) activities offered funding opportunities to help expand transportation choices and enhance the transportation experience through 12 eligible TE activities related to surface transportation, including pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure and safety programs, scenic and historic highway programs, landscaping and scenic beautification, historic preservation, and environmental mitigation. TE projects must relate to surface transportation and must qualify under one or more of the 12 eligible categories. See Program Brief and Presentation.

The original TE activities remain eligible for TE funds that were previously apportioned until the TE funds are obligated, rescinded, or lapsed. If you have specific questions about the transition from TE to the TAP in your State, please contact your State TE/TAP Program Manager. Contact information is at www.walkinginfo.org/assistance/contacts.cfm.

On this site you will find TE guidance, legislation, and funding data. The TAP webpage has links to additional resources.

Eligible Activities

Transportation enhancement activity.--The term "transportation enhancement activity" means, with respect to any project or the area to be served by the project, any of the following activities as the activities relate to surface transportation:

1. Provision of facilities for pedestrians and bicycles.
2. Provision of safety and educational activities for pedestrians and bicyclists.
3. Acquisition of scenic easements and scenic or historic sites (including historic battlefields).
4. Scenic or historic highway programs (including the provision of tourist and welcome center facilities).
5. Landscaping and other scenic beautification.
6. Historic preservation.
7. Rehabilitation and operation of historic transportation buildings, structures, or facilities (including historic railroad facilities and canals).
8. Preservation of abandoned railway corridors (including the conversion and use of the corridors for pedestrian or bicycle trails).
9. Inventory, control, and removal of outdoor advertising.
10. Archaeological planning and research.
11. Environmental mitigation--
    1. to address water pollution due to highway runoff; or,
    2. reduce vehicle-caused wildlife mortality while maintaining habitat connectivity.
12. Establishment of transportation museums.