Transportation

Direct Expenditures Program Directory (CFDA)

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) organizes most federal assistance spending — that is, non-procurement spending — into a set of distinct programs, each with detailed information about its aims, history and eligibility requirements. The authoritative source of CFDA information can be found at https://www.cfda.gov. Subsidyscope also maintains a copy of much of this information.

More specifically, Subsidyscope uses the CFDA to determine which direct spending programs fall within each sector. Each record in the dataset is assigned to a CFDA program; each CFDA program has an account code; and each account code falls under a budget function, which often corresponds closely to one of the sectors we have chosen to examine. In this way individual transactions can be assigned to one or more sectors via the transaction's CFDA program.

Users should be aware that CFDA data quality cannot be guaranteed. Agencies and program staff are responsible for self-reporting the information contained in the catalog. It is not obvious what quality controls are in place, nor is it clear what circumstances oblige a program to register with the CFDA. For this reason the catalog should not be considered comprehensive or correct, although it does include the vast majority of domestic assistance programs.

Subsidyscope assigned "tags" to each program in the transportation sector to classify its purpose and/or mechanism of delivery, which may be used to search the data below. For more on tags and their use for selection of programs containing subsidies, click here. The programs may also be searched by mode of transportation.

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