The program aims to make roads safer for all including pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.

Indianapolis will receive $15 million in federal grants to increase public access to electric vehicle charging stations throughout the community.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg highlighted Indiana’s role in helping build the future of electric vehicles Friday.

The $25 million grant is part of the Rebuilding America's Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity, or RAISE, program.

Tell City, like many Hoosier communities along the Ohio River, relies heavily on barge traffic to fuel its local economy. An integral part of that shipping network is the Tell City River Port, where Buttigieg started his visit.

Pete Buttigieg, sworn in Wednesday as transportation secretary, urged his 55,000 employees to embrace "imaginative, bold, forward thinking."

As transportation secretary, Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will face an airline and public transportation industry reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, as well as an aging infrastructure system.

Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. He'll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden's ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and fighting climate change.

The Commerce Committee approved the nomination of Pete Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on a 21-3 vote.

Pete Buttigieg was headed down a smooth path to quick confirmation, pledging to senators on Thursday to work with them to carry out the Biden administration's ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation's infrastructure.