Provider
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)
Application Deadline
Mandatory Pre-Application Scoping Forms will be accepted through January 2, 2026
Summary
Pennsylvania’s Municipal Signal Partnership Program, also known as the “Green Light–Go” Program, is a competitive state grant program designed to improve the efficiency and operation of existing traffic signals located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Green Light-Go Program is a reimbursement grant program and applicants are required to provide a minimum 20% match.
Prior to application submission, applicants must complete and submit a Pre-Application Scoping Form in accordance with the Green Light-Go Program Guidelines. Pre-Application scoping forms will be accepted via email (GLG@pa.gov). PennDOT will review and provide comments on the Pre-Application Scoping Forms by February 28, 2026. The PennDOT-reviewed scoping form must be uploaded as an attachment to the formal application submission in March 2026.
Common Eligible Projects
Grant funding through the Green Light-Go Program may be utilized for a range of operational improvements to existing traffic control signals located in Pennsylvania. All project improvements must have a useful life of not less than five years upon project completion in order to be eligible for funding. The following project types are eligible for the use of program funds:
- LED Replacement
- Traffic Signal Retiming
- Study and Removal of Unwarranted Traffic-Control Signals
- Monitoring
- Innovative Technologies
- Communications/Connections Back to Traffic Management Center (TMC)
- Detection and/or Controller Upgrades
- Modernization Upgrades
- Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Applications
More Information
https://docs.penndot.pa.gov/Public/Bureaus/BOO/TSPortal/GLG.html
