At their option, sponsors of New Starts and Small Starts projects may use a simplified method developed by FTA to quantify the measures used by FTA to evaluate and rate projects. STOPS is a limited implementation of the conventional "4-step" travel...

User Guide

The User Guide gives step-by-step instructions for the installation of the software, assembly of the required data, and preparation of the forecasts.

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Purpose

STOPS uses two kinds of data from the Census. First, it uses 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) Journey-to-Work data that tabulate worker flows and transit shares from the period. STOPS updates both the flows and the shares to...

Purpose

STOPS users are required to represent transit service changes offered by new projects in GTFS format.  STOPS users can embed these service changes in GTFS by: 1) engaging with transit agency schedulers, 2) using commercial...

This guidance is intended to assist FTA Regional staff and project sponsors in applying specific Categorical Exclusions to FTA projects.

Program Management Guidance Updates

• Consolidated Circular for Urbanized Area Grant Programs
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FTA's Associate Administrator and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo provided an update on recent rulemaking efforts.

FTA's Associate Administrator and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo provided an update on the state of bus and rail transit safety, recent FTA regulatory updates and the risk-based inspection program.

FTA may issue general directives that are applicable to the entire transit industry or a subset of the industry when it: 

• determines that an unsafe condition or practice, or a combination of unsafe conditions and...

FTA's Office of System Safety, Safety Policy Senior Program Analyst Stewart Mader discussed PTASP and National Safety Plan highlights, compliance timeframes and additional resources.