The Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program, formerly known as Transportation Enhancements (TE), was created to help expand transportation choices and provide funding for activities that are often left out of transportation projects. Activities that are eligible for TA funding include pedestrian and bicycle facilities. GPATS receives an allocation in TAP funding each year, which is awarded on a competitive grant basis.
For more information on the program and eligible activities, visit SCDOT's Transportation Alternatives Program page.
Safe Routes to School Program
The Safe Routes to School Page was absorbed into the TA Program per the Fast Act 2015.
Successful Safe Routes to School programs emphasize the “Five E’s”: Engineering, Enforcement, Encouragement, Education, and Evaluation. Safe Routes efforts can include anything from additional crossing guard patrols, to a “walking school bus” of parents and children, to infrastructure improvements.
Through a Community Transformation Grant awarded to Greenville County in 2012, Upstate Forever will complete five Safe Routes to School travel plans for selected Greenville County schools in 2013 and 2014. These schools include Monaview Elementary, Welcome Elementary, Duncan Chapel Elementary, Augusta Circle Elementary, and Bryson Elementary. The travel plans will identify strategies to provide schools with a clear path to increase the number of students walking and biking to school.
For more information on the Safe Routes to School national program, visit the National Center for Safe Routes to School.