University Transportation Centers Program FY 2025 NOFO
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: December 22, 2025
Archive date: March 22, 2026
Close date: February 20, 2026
Opportunity ID: 360730
Opportunity number: UTCOPENCOMP2025
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: 69A355 Research and Technology
Agency code: DOT-RITA
Award floor: $1,900,000
Award ceiling: $3,000,000
Cost sharing required: Yes
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Transportation
Eligible Applicants
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:dot_rita
- category_of_funding_activity:transportation
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:true
- eligible_applicants:private_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:public_and_state_controlled_institutions_of_higher_education
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
In 2023, the U.S. Department of Transportation selected through competition 35 University Transportation Centers Program grants authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 to receive funds from Federal Fiscal Years 2022-2026. Now five of those UTCs are available again for a new competitive selection. These grants will receive three annual increments of funding totaling $33 million and will operate from 2026 to 2030, to establish and operate a university transportation center to advance transportation expertise and technology, provide for a critical multimodal transportation knowledge base out of the Department of Transportation, and address critical workforce needs and educate the next generation of transportation leaders.