Department of Transportation · Transportation · Economic Development
National Highway Freight Program (NHFP)
Formula funding for projects that improve freight movement on the National Highway Freight Network. Cities with major freight corridors apply via state DOT.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $500K – $100M
- Non-federal match
- 20% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Continuous via state DOT programming.
- Typical prep time
- 6–14 weeks
- Statutory authority
- 23 U.S.C. §167
Who is eligible for National Highway Freight Program (NHFP)?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
State pass-through; up to 10% may fund intermodal / rail projects. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- RAISE Discretionary Grants (DOT)$1M – $25M
- INFRA Grants (Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects) (DOT)$25M – $200M
- MEGA / National Infrastructure Project Assistance (DOT)$100M – $500M
- Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) (DOT)$200K – $25M
- Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program (DOT)$500K – $100M
- Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (Highway Trust Fund Formula) (DOT)$500K – $50M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.