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DOE's Clean Cities Program
The U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities Program supports public-private partnerships that deploy alternative fuel vehicles and build supporting alternative fuel infrastructure. The Clean Cities website includes a section on Support and Funding for Clean Cities Coalitions that addresses project funding fundamentals, as well as funding sources and specific opportunities. DOE also supports development and deployment of advanced transportation technologies through the FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program.

California Fleet ZIP program
Offers grants of up to $11,000 per qualifying vehicle for fleet purchases of electric vehicles. The grants are awarded using a competitive process. California also has a designated Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority within the state government.

EPA's Transportation Air Quality Center's Transportation-Related Grants Database
Provides a clearinghouse of information on transportation and air quality-related projects funded by EPA.

Location Efficient Mortgage Project -- Center for Neighborhood Technology
The Location Efficient Mortgage (LEM) is an innovative mortgage product that is offered in Chicago, Seattle San Francisco, and Los Angeles to low- and moderate-income borrowers who are interested in living in urban areas served by public transportation systems.

Federal Transit Administration's Livable Communities Initiative
Provides funding for projects that strengthen the link between transit and communities to provide alternative means of personal mobility, increase capacity when needed and contribute to the quality of life in communities.

Innovative Financing Handbook for America's Transit Systems
The purpose of this handbook is to encourage transit systems owners and operators to examine innovative financing methods in support of their capital and operating programs. The techniques included in this handbook only represent the transactions that Federal Transit Administration has reviewed and approved.

Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed legislation in June 2003 that provides a partial state sales tax exemption of 20 percent on biodiesel blends containing from one to ten percent biodiesel. The legislative package also established the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program, which offers grants up to $15 million annually for constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a renewable fuels plant with a minimum production capacity of 30 million gallons.

The Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA)
The IDEA program, adminstered by the Transportation Research Board, funds innovative new concepts, products, or results that would accelerate the development and deployment of advanced transportation methods, processes, systems, or technology. The IDEA program funds innovations in four areas: the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transit, Transportation Safety, and High-Speed Rail. The proposal process is open to all researchers, small or large businesses, universities, and research institutions in the United States or abroad. Guidelines and submission forms are available online.

Innovative Finance.org
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials hosts InnovativeFinance.org as a clearinghouse providing information on innovations in all areas of surface transportation finance.

National Transportation Library Digital Collection on Economics and Finance
PDF, HTML and Metadata files of publications that deal with alternative financing for transportation projects.

Last updated: April 28, 2004

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