Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT)

Winning Applications

Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT)

Winning Applications

The PROTECT grant program is designed to improve the climate resilience of the surface transportation system, which includes highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. Projects can be designed to protect transportation infrastructure from the impacts of rising sea levels, flooding, intense storms, wildfires, extreme heat, etc.

In its FY2022 & 2023 grant cycle, $829.6 million was awarded to 80 recipients in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as Tribal lands.

View all of the 2022/2023 PROTECT awardees

Here are examples of winning applications:

Aurora, CO

Aurora received nearly $11 million to reconstruct a damaged road along the flood plain of the city’s Box Elder Creek and protect it from future storms and heavy rainfall. Prevention and resilience efforts will include stabilizing riverbanks and channels, planting vegetation to prevent erosion and increase the ability of the soil to absorb stormwater, and installing rock and concrete roadway protection. View the winning application

Cincinnati, OH

Cincinnati received over $10 million for its project focused on landslide correction and prevention. Funds were provided for reinforcement and stabilization strategies at 10 sites at risk for endangering public safety, sewers and other utilities, and disrupting traffic and transport in a disadvantaged census tract. View the winning application

Fort Wayne, IN

Fort Wayne received over $3.5 million to stabilize a part of the St. Mary’s river though nature-based solutions like vegetation and stone vanes (structures on the riverbank made of large rocks that prevent erosion). The project is designed to repair the riverbank and prevent further erosion while also protecting a nearby road with heavy traffic, multimodal use, and that provides access to restaurants, entertainment venues, city parks, downtown Fort Wayne, and the city’s Airport Expressway View the winning application