Recent Grants

The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) provides grants to eligible entities to conduct effective traffic safety programs with federal funding received through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Program areas include:

• DISTRACTED DRIVING: Programs to educate the public about the dangers of cell phone use, texting, and other forms of distractions while driving.
• DRIVERS AGES 20 AND YOUNGER (TEEN): Programs to educate parents and young drivers on the high risk of crashes and effective traffic safety strategies aimed at teen drivers.
• EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, CRASH RESCUE, and TRAUMA: Programs to increase the survivability of crashes by improving the availability and quality of pre-hospital and post-crash arrival care.
• IMPAIRED DRIVING: Adjudication, education, and improvements necessary to impact impaired driving, as well as a focus on alcohol-related and drug-related impairment.
• MOTORCYCLIST SAFETY: Educational programs that encourage proper training and endorsement, reduce impaired riding, sharing the road, public awareness activities, and more.
• OCCUPANT PROTECTION: Programs designed to increase use of seat belts among all age groups and proper use of child restraints.
• PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLIST SAFETY (Vulnerable Roadway Users): Public education and awareness on laws applicable to pedestrian and bicyclist safety.
• POLICE TRAFFIC SERVICES: Overtime traffic enforcement targeting impaired driving and noncompliance of the seat belt law, speeding, distracted driving, and pedestrian/ bicyclist laws. There is also opportunity to participate in the Great Lakes High Stakes initiative, Operation Safe Stop, and School Bus Safety Week. Funding priority will be given to agencies who choose to participate in any of three required mobilization periods and four optional mobilization periods.
• PREVENTING ROADSIDE DEATHS: Projects focused on effective programs to prevent death and injury from crashes involving motor vehicles striking other vehicles and individuals stopped at the roadside.
• RURAL ROADS: Projects focused on rural roadways may include any of the program elements listed previously, as well as community engagement and coalition building, traffic safety culture education, and other areas determined by data analysis.
• TRAFFIC RECORDS (statewide emphasis): The continued development and implementation of a statewide program to enhance the collection, analysis, and dissemination of crash data.
• OTHER POTENTIAL FUNDING AREAS: Contact OHSP Program Coordinators for consultation if your traffic safety project idea is not listed. 

Allowable Cost Categories include:

• Personnel salaries and wages (regular time), and fringe benefits
  • Administrative duties including documenting activities, report writing, and financial reconciliation
  • Project coordination, such as creating materials, training, on-site visits, press events
  • Travel time to meetings and conferences
• Personnel salaries and wages (overtime) and fringe benefits
  • Enforcement mobilization shifts
  • Administrative duties including documenting activities, report writing, and financial reconciliation
• Contractual (for services directly related to the project, such as paying for training staff or graphic design work). o Procurement requirements must be followed
• Travel costs (meetings, conferences, or training in or out of state)
• Supplies/ operating (office supplies, postage/ shipping, printing, educational items).
  • Highway Safety Training: costs for registration or hosting trainings.
  • Electronic speed monitoring signs costing less than $5,000 per unit
• Equipment, including software (many restrictions apply, see more information in the application guidance. Note that no project may be created solely to purchase equipment)
• Indirect cost rate