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On February 1, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a historic $800 million in grant awards for 510 projects through the new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program, a record amount of funding to improve roads and address traffic fatalities. DVRPC was awarded $1.47 million for its Regional Vision Zero 2050 Action Program.

The FY2025 round of the Transportation & Community Development Initiative (TCDI) grant program is now open for eligible entities in the five-county Pennsylvania area of the DVRPC region.

The the DVRPC Board approved $860,000 in grants for 11 trails and trail connections in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This round of Regional Trails Program funding was specifically for communities that have faced historic or current discrimination in the allocation of resources or have been subject to a disproportionate share of environmental burdens.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the first phase of the new $5 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Program. Under Phase One, EPA will directly award up to $1 million to each of the 67 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the country to develop a climate action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their MSA. DVRPC will serve as the lead entity for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA.

Newly released labor force data from the US Census Bureau shows that the participation rate gap between men and women has continued to steadily close region-wide, and the participation rate gap between white people and people of color has disappeared. However, the speed at which these gaps are closing has varied by county.

Hear from national and regional experts on e-micromobility design considerations, systems management, affordability, ease of access, and more.

DVRPC has awarded $15.5 million to eleven local projects in Southeastern Pennsylvania through the Regional Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program (TASA).

This new study from DVRPC examines transportation issues and suggests possible improvements to connectivity, safety, and accessibility in three Burlington County municipalities: Maple Shade, Mansfield, and Evesham.

Newly released income data from the US Census Bureau shows that income gaps remain wide between the region’s wealthiest and poorest, white people and people of color, and men and women. While the income gap between the region’s men and women has substantially dropped over the last decade and a half, it still remains wide.