Ep 18: 7 Steps to Successfully Funding Your Safe Streets for All Plan

The Modern Mobility Podcast

Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to apply for Safe Streets for All grants and create their action plans. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 18:

• What is the Safe Streets for All program?
• What makes a competitive Safe Streets application?
• What are some safety prioritization measures?
• What is required of a Safe Streets action plan?

Links:

• USDOT Safe Streets and Roads for All Resources
  https://www.transportation.gov/grants/SS4A/resources
• 2022 Safe Streets and Roads for All Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (2023 NOFO unavailable at time of recording)
  https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2022-08/SS4A-NOFO-FY22-Amendment-1.pdf
• 2022 SS4A Awards
  https://www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/2022-awards
• Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse
  https://www.cmfclearinghouse.org/
• USDOT Areas of Persistent Poverty & Historically Disadvantaged Communities Mapping Tool
  https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants/raise-app-hdc
• USDOT National Roadway Safety Strategy
  https://www.transportation.gov/NRSS
• Smart Growth America | Dangerous by Design 2022
  https://smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-design/

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 14 years of experience in transportation planning and is certified by MIT Media Lab’s Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten is an Associate Vice President and Director of Smart Mobility Planning with Modern Mobility Partners. Kirsten holds a M.S. degree in City Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Guest Speaker:

• Amber Berg, AICP has five years of experience as a transportation planner, specializing in visual communication, federal funding, and active transportation. She has a master’s degree in Regional and Community Planning from Kansas State University.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm. Service areas include smart mobility and transportation planning, demand modeling and traffic engineering, and data analytics and visualization.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com.

To obtain AICP CM credits, search for “Modern Mobility Partners” in the https://planning.org AICP CM portal to find all episodes.