Green Light - Go

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Provider

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Application Deadline

Pre-Application scoping forms will be accepted through November 22, 2024.

Summary

The Green Light-Go: Pennsylvania’s Municipal Signal Partnership Program, also known as the “Green Light–Go Program”, is a competitive state grant program designed to improve the efficiency and operation of existing traffic signals located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Green Light-Go Program is a reimbursement grant program and applicants are required to provide a minimum 20% match.

Prior to application submission, applicants must complete and submit a Pre-Application Scoping Form in accordance with the Green Light-Go Program Guidelines. Pre-Application scoping forms will be accepted via email (GLG@pa.gov). PennDOT will review and provide comments on the Pre-Application Scoping Forms by January 31, 2025.

Common Eligible Projects

Grant funding through the Green Light-Go Program may be utilized for a range of operational improvements to existing traffic control signals located in Pennsylvania. All project improvements must have a useful life of not less than five years upon project completion in order to be eligible for funding. The following project types are eligible for the use of program funds:

1. LED Replacement
2. Traffic Signal Retiming
3. Study and Removal of Unwarranted Traffic-Control Signals
4. Monitoring
5. Innovative Technologies
6. Communications/Connections Back to Traffic Management Center (TMC)
7. Detection and/or Controller Upgrades
8. Modernization Upgrades
9. Intelligent Transportation System Applications