EBP Assists with Grant Applications Year-Round

The EBP team has decades of experience in benefit-cost analysis (BCA) work, including successful consultation on transportation grant applications, ranging from performing the required benefit-cost analysis to preparing the full application. The firm offers a wide spectrum of BCA tools recognized by USDOT, including easily understood and communicated spreadsheet applications, as well as the Multimodal Benefit Cost Analysis tool available through TREDIS software.  Since the inception of the TIGER discretionary grant program in 2009, EBP has supported approximately $375 million in federal discretionary grant awards of all kinds, including two 2023 Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants (PIDP) for New Bedford, MA and Milwaukee, WI, one 2023 and two 2022 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grants for San Bernadino County, Port of San Juan Wharf and Moore, OK (respectively),  and a 2022 Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant for West Central FL.  Selected recent experience includes:

• 2023 RAISE Grant Application: San Bernadino, CA High Speed Rail-Won $25,000,000
• 2023 PIDP Grand Application: Port Milwaukee, WI -Won $9,300,000
• 2022 PIDP Grant Application: Port of Muskogee, OK-Won $24,000,000
• 2022 RAISE Grant Applications: Port of San Juan, PR and Moore, OK-Won $35,000,000
• 2022 INFRA Grant Application: I-4 West Central Florida Truck Parking-Won $15,000,000
• 2021 CARSI Grant Application: Florida DOT and South Florida Regional Transportation Authority-Won $16,000,000
• 2021 PIDP Grant Applications-Port Alpena, MI and Hancock County Port, MS-Won $13,000,000

Contact Ira Hirschman of EBP for more information. For more on the MBCA and TREDIS tools, contact Derek Cutler of TREDIS Software.