Provision of safety and educational activities for pedestrians and bicyclists
This includes non-construction safety-related activities and the reasonable costs to provide safety and educational activities such as bicycle and pedestrian safety training, cost of facilitators and classes. It may also include related training materials such as brochures, videotapes, other training aids, as well as rent for leased space and limited staff salaries.

Acquisition of scenic easements and scenic or historic sites
This category may be applied to the purchase, donation, transfer, or trade of lands which possess significant aesthetic, historic, archaeological, cultural, natural, visual, or open space values, including, but not limited to, land and property listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

Scenic or Historic Highway Programs (including the provision of tourist and welcome center facilities)
This category covers protection and enhancement of state or federally designated scenic or historic highways. Funds may be used for projects that will protect and enhance the scenic, historic, cultural, natural, and archaeological integrity and visitor appreciation of an existing highway and adjacent area, including welcome centers.

Landscaping and Other Scenic Beautification
This category includes landscape and street-scape planning, design, and construction projects which enhance the aesthetic or ecological resources along transportation corridors, points of access, and lands qualifying for other categories of transportation enhancement activities.

Historic Preservation
Projects in this category should enhance the transportation system by improving the ability of the public to appreciate the historic significance of the project itself or the area to be served by the project. Funds may be used for the identification, evaluation, recording, documentation, curation, acquisition, protection, rehabilitation, interpretation, and restoration or any combination of the foregoing, of any historic or archaeological district, site, building, structure, landscape, or object included in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as determined by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). Projects in this category may satisfy the eligibility requirement of relationship to the surface transportation system through a pronounced visibility from the transportation system or by providing a conspicuous or prominent impact on the traveling experience. Projects whose features are the basis of scenic or historic highway designation also meet the relationship requirement.

Rehabilitation and Operation of Historic Transportation Buildings, Structures, or Facilities (including historic railroad facilities and canals)
Historic transportation buildings are buildings or structures associated with the operation, passenger and freight use, construction, or maintenance of any mode of transportation where such building is listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as determined by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO).

Preservation of Abandoned Railway Corridors (including the conversion and use thereof for pedestrian or bicycle trails)
This category includes the planning, acquisition, rehabilitation and development of corridors for public uses including bicycle and pedestrian use. It permits the development and rehabilitation of privately owned rail corridors open to the general public without charge.

Control and Removal of Outdoor Advertising
This category covers expenditures for the removal of existing signs, displays, and devices on highways that are not classified as local roads. Projects must comply with a legal process that bases payments for removal on an equitable appraisal and has an agreeable seller.

Archaeological Planning and Research
This category includes, but is not limited to, research on sites eligible for transportation enhancement funds; experimental projects in archaeological site preservation and interpretation; planning to improve identification, evaluation, and treatment of archaeological sites; development of national and regional research designs; and data recovery and synthetic research. Projects should be used for research or interpretation of sites associated with transportation facilities. This category is not for routine excavations.

Environmental mitigation to address water pollution due to highway runoff or reduce vehicle-caused wildlife mortality while maintaining habitat connectivity
This category includes projects such as mitigation to address highway storm water runoff through erosion controls or detention and sediment pond construction, runoff pollution studies, wildlife crossings, or wildlife highway mortality studies.

Establishment of transportation museums
This category is for capital improvements to establish museums with a focus on transportation, or for the purchase of artifacts related to transportation that will be displayed in a transportation museum.

Work Categories
Planning Activities
Planning efforts must either: 1) lead to the development of a proposed network or program of projects that will lead to specific construction projects; or 2) be specific planning activities necessary for defining and implementing an individual enhancement activity.

Project Development and Environmental Work
This covers studies and work when it is necessary to develop and evaluate project alternatives and assess the environmental impacts of a proposed project.

Design Work
This includes preliminary and final engineering, design and right of way surveying, architectural services, and preparing construction plans, specifications, estimates and contracts.

Right-of-Way Acquisition
This includes the cost of buying property plus right of way support services such as appraisals. The Federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Acquisition Policies Act apply for any new right-of-way acquisition or relocation activities on all transportation enhancement program projects.

Construction
This is the major category of work for enhancement activities involving the actual building of the project.

Construction Engineering and Inspection
This covers services for overseeing the construction of a project, and is only eligible in conjunction with construction activities.