Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity

[1] The program has been extended several times, and was renamed as Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) in 2018 before taking its current name in 2021.

The U.S. government designed TIGER grants in order to incentivize bettering environmental problems and reducing the United States' dependence on energy.

On the economic front, the United States hopes infrastructure investment will encourage job creation, a pressing political priority; this would likely require the project to be shovel-ready.

Selected projects might improve the economy of the entire country, transportation safety, and quality of life for communities.

On December 15, 2011, that $511 million from the TIGER grant program would fund 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico.

Seventy-two capital and planning projects in 46 states and the District of Columbia were selected for funding that totaled more than $584 million.