Section 5: Other Traffic Safety Grant Awards
Anchor: #i1010294STEP - Click It or Ticket (CIOT) Grants
Click It or Ticket (CIOT) is a statewide, high visibility enforcement effort designed to detect violators of safety belt and child safety seat laws. Part of a national mobilization effort to increase safety belt use, CIOT uses a proven combination of highly visible enforcement and intense public awareness campaigns over a two-week blitz period during the Memorial Day holiday period. While the program is statewide, heavy emphasis is focused on the Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Lubbock, Garland, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi and El Paso metropolitan areas.
The goal of CIOT is to save lives and reduce injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Television, radio, print, and billboard advertising aimed at raising awareness of safety belt laws and the consequences of not buckling up begins in late April and continues through early June.
If selected to participate in the two-week CIOT campaign, law enforcement agencies must conduct the following activities:
- Anchor: #VPWESSTJ
- Pre-Media Campaign. Anchor: #CWKLTYHU
- Enforcement Effort. Anchor: #JTFEQPOI
- Post-Media Campaign.
To view the appropriate timelines of these CIOT activities, see the STEP Mobilization Calendar, located under “STEP Tool Box” on the eGrants Help Page.
To review the grant procedures for CIOT, see the CIOT Mobilization Instructions located on the eGrants Help Page.
NOTE: CIOT grants require a minimum 20% matching share from the subgrantee.
Anchor: #i1010360STEP - Impaired Driving Mobilization (IDM) Grants
Impaired Driving Mobilization (IDM) provides grant money for local law enforcement agencies to conduct driving while intoxicated (DWI) enforcement Waves and increase DWI arrests as part of the statewide "Drink. Drive. Go to Jail" program, held in conjunction with the national Impaired Driving Mobilization (IDM) campaign. IDM grants require a 20% minimum matching share from the subgrantee.
TRF-BTS identifies areas of the state with the highest percentages of alcohol related crashes and then invites law enforcement agencies in these areas to participate in the IDM. These projects conduct quarterly enforcement mobilizations during the following holiday periods:
- Anchor: #LSIJVBHY
- Christmas/New Years. Anchor: #NTBRAVHY
- Spring Break. Anchor: #VQUICDKD
- Independence Day. Anchor: #OUDERKPX
- Labor Day (in conjunction with the National Impaired Driving Crackdown).
If selected to participate in the IDM campaign, law enforcement agencies must conduct the following activities:
- Anchor: #WYEPLNHS
- Pre-Media Campaign. Anchor: #LIEHFQVL
- Enforcement Effort. Anchor: #KIBJHTXN
- Post-Media Campaign.
To view the appropriate timelines on these IDM activities, see the STEP Mobilization Calendar, located under “STEP Tool Box” on the eGrants Help Page.
To review the grant procedures for IDM, see the Impaired Driving Mobilization Instructions located on the eGrants Help Page.
Anchor: #i1010465Project Celebration Mini-Grants
Project Celebration mini-grants are state-funded grants to approximately 600 high schools to assist in sponsoring alcohol-free events around prom and graduation time.
To review the grant procedures for Project Celebration, see the Project Celebration Instructions on the eGrants Help Page.
For more information on Project Celebration mini-grants, TRF-BTS has created a Teen Project Celebration Guidebook available on the Project Celebration web page on the TxDOT website.
Anchor: #i1010484Target-of-Opportunity Projects
TRF-BTS may recommend unanticipated or “target-of-opportunity” projects at any time. Such projects will require an amendment to the State Highway Safety Plan (HSP).
Anchor: #i1010494Disadvantaged Business Enterprises and Historically Underutilized Businesses
When possible, the Texas Behavioral Traffic Safety Program will seek Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) participation through contracts and subcontracts for the purchase of goods or services. This is one of the reasons that the call for traffic safety project proposals is published annually in the Texas Register.