Department of Transportation · Transportation
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Loans
Federal credit assistance (secured loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit) for major surface-transportation projects. Loans up to 49% of eligible project costs at U.S. Treasury rate. Cities use TIFIA to finance large transit, highway, bridge, and port projects.
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
- $10M – $1B
- Non-federal match
- Varies by NOFO
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Continuous letter-of-interest process via Build America Bureau.
- Typical prep time
- 16–36 weeks
- Statutory authority
- TIFIA (23 U.S.C. §601 et seq.)
Who is eligible for Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Loans?
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.
Loan, not grant. Project must be ≥$10M (≥$50M typical). Long-tenor financing at very low rates. 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.