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Mississippi Department of Transportation, Aeronautics and Rails Division

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Type: State DOT — State DOT and designated State Rail Transportation Authority; its Aeronautics and Rails Division prepares the State Rail Plan, runs the grade-crossing programme and the railroad grants
Market · Region: United States · Mississippi
Open tenders: 0
Technology areas: Track & civil

State rail authority that writes the rail plan and funds port and public-railroad projects by grant.

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Prepares the State Rail Plan, manages highway-rail grade crossings and awards railroad grants to publicly owned lines and ports through the Multimodal Transportation Improvement Program and the Strategic Multi-Modal Investments Fund.

Type: State DOT — State DOT and designated State Rail Transportation Authority; its Aeronautics and Rails Division prepares the State Rail Plan, runs the grade-crossing programme and the railroad grants
Where: Mississippi · Jackson
Programmes: IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Technology areas: Track & civil

Structure

funds Port of Gulfport — MDOT Strategic Multi-Modal Investments Fund grant toward the Gulfport project (active)

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● Port of Gulfport - release: Awarded $11.25 Million USDOT Grant (1 May 2026) · Port release: MARAD awarded $11.25 million from the 2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program towards a $24.5 million project funded also by $9.5 million from the stevedore Ports America, $2.6 million from MDOT's Strategic Multi-Modal Investment Fund and just over $1.2 million of port funds; scope includes rail improvements on Terminal 5, an intra-port rail connection between the East Pier and West Pier, paving and reefer towers at Terminal 4, a crane transformer and a reach stacker; on-dock Class I service via CN and CPKC (published 2026-05-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
○ Progressive Railroading - Mississippi DOT to award $30M in multimodal program grants (12 April 2024) · Trade press (Secondary; MDOT's own release is a JavaScript page that returns no text to automated clients): first round of the Strategic Multimodal Investments Fund, established 2023, $30 million to railroads, ports and airports; five rail recipients (Rosedale-Bolivar County Port Great River Railroad, Itawamba Mississippian Railway, Grenada Railroad, Ripley & New Albany Railroad, Mississippi Southern Railroad) and six port recipients including Gulfport; superseded as the source for the 2024 round by MDOT's own release (mdot_nr_1866) and kept for the recipient list (published 2024-04-12 · checked 2026-10-08)

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8 sources · all primary

● MDOT - Mississippi State Rail Plan Update (September 2022) · State rail plan prepared for MDOT by consultants: 2,500 miles of rail served by five Class I railroads, one Class II and 21 Class III railroads (22 short lines in the summary text); MDOT is the designated State Rail Transportation Authority; near-term programme of 10 passenger projects at $37.2 million, 27 short-range freight projects at $171.4 million and 36 long-range freight projects at $418.4 million (2020 dollars); Section 130 crossings $13.6 million near term; funding tools include the Railroad Revitalization Fund (no-interest loans up to 75 percent) and the Multimodal Transportation Improvement Program (published 2022-09 · checked 2026-10-08)
● MDOT - MULTIPLAN 2050 interim report, Task 05 Existing Conditions of Rail (April 2025) · Interim report: the Aeronautics Division oversees preparation of the State Rail Plan, manages the highway-rail grade-crossing programme and the railroad segment of the Multimodal Transportation Improvement Fund; Gulf Coast service of two round trips New Orleans to Mobile agreed August 2024; groundbreaking for the Amtrak layover track and platform at Mobile on 22 October 2024 (published 2025-04 · checked 2026-10-08)
● MDOT - Railroad Multi-Modal Transportation Improvement Program instructions (2 March 2026) · Letter and guidelines: FY2027 application cycle open, packages due to the Aeronautics and Rails Division by 4:00 PM on 27 March 2026; applicant railroad must be publicly owned; minimum 1 percent railroad pledge; contracts must follow state bid and procurement laws; applications are uploaded to the MDOT MTIP portal (published 2026-03-02 · checked 2026-10-08)
● MDOT - Three Year Plan FFY 2026-2028 (DRAFT, Commission attachment file dated 120925) · Draft plan, not the adopted programme: the 2025 fuel-tax increase is expected to give MDOT about $164 million a year of extra revenue at full phase-in in fiscal 2028, of which about $5.9 million (2.75 percent of the increase) is statutorily allocated to the Strategic Multimodal Investments Fund; the plan lists no rail construction projects of its own (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-10-08)
● Southern Rail Commission - Mississippi page · Undated page with content to 2020: Gulf Coast restoration with stops at Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascagoula; federal grants leverage matching commitments from Louisiana, Mississippi and the City of Mobile; a 2018 university study cited $13.95 million of Mississippi investment; MDOT, the Port of Gulfport and the Mississippi Development Authority named as partners (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-08)
● MDOT - Strategic Multi-Modal Investments Fund page (via MDOT OData page record 527) · MDOT page read through its OData endpoint, updated 1 October 2026: fund established in the 2023 session with initial authority up to $30 million; the 2026 Legislative Session earmarked $10 million of Capital Expense funds; applications must be submitted before 4PM on 13 November 2026; the page note says award notices follow deposit of bond proceeds. Administered under Miss. Code Ann. 65-1-901 (published 2026-10-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
● MDOT - News Releases · MDOT portal news index (a JavaScript application: only its title was readable); one release it hosts, 'Historic funding from Legislature paves the way for MDOT capacity projects', is described in its page metadata as concerning 2023 session funding (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-08)
● MDOT - news release: MDOT Commission intermodal awards announced (9 April 2024) · MDOT release read through its OData endpoint (news_id 1866): $30 million of grants to airports, ports and railroads from the Strategic Multi-Modal Investments Fund (created 2023, 51 applications for about $86 million from 43 agencies); five rail grants (Rosedale-Bolivar County Port Great River Railroad phase 1 $2.6 million, Grenada Railroad $1.2 million, Itawamba Mississippian Railway $2.2 million, Ripley & New Albany Railroad $1.1 million, and Mississippi Southern) and six port grants including $2.6 million to the Mississippi State Port Authority and $1.5 million to Lowndes County Port for east bank rail (published 2024-04-09 · checked 2026-10-08)

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