Rail Equity Impact in Texas Communities
GrantID: 78238
Grant Funding Amount Low: Open
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: Open
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Grant Overview
Texas rail systems serve 254 counties with pronounced access gaps between the Gulf Coast ports handling 30 percent of U.S. container volume and the 89 counties classified as rural by the Texas Department of Transportation. The Equitable Rail Access Program targets these gaps by funding data collection on freight and passenger service frequency in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Permian Basin regions, where median household income falls 18 percent below the state average and rail siding capacity lags national standards by 40 percent.
Texas households in the 62 counties east of Interstate 35 experience commuter rail headways averaging 47 minutes during peak periods, while the 41 western counties served by single-track lines record zero scheduled passenger service. The program supports research partnerships with institutions in El Paso and Lubbock to quantify how these service differentials affect labor market access for the 2.1 million residents in majority-Hispanic census tracts. Eligible applicants must submit county-level origin-destination matrices covering at least three consecutive years of freight volume data from the Surface Transportation Board waybill sample.
Applications require documentation of rail-adjacent employment rates drawn from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for the specific counties proposed for study. Texas applicants must also demonstrate access to at least one Class I railroad's confidential yard inventory for the preceding 24 months. Review criteria weight proposals that isolate the effect of track ownership concentration, which exceeds 75 percent by a single carrier in 34 counties.
The program's outcome framework measures changes in scheduled service frequency and average transit time to the nearest intermodal facility for populations below 185 percent of the federal poverty level. Texas proposals succeed when they pair rail performance metrics with workforce commuting patterns documented in the American Community Survey five-year estimates for the exact counties under analysis. Unlike Colorado applications, Texas requires demonstration that proposed data collection will cover both the Texas-Mexico border crossings and the energy extraction corridors simultaneously.
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