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Small Starts SCC Workbook

Small Starts Standard Cost Categories (SCC) worksheets issued by FTA for reporting the capital costs and schedules of proposed projects.

Standard Cost Categories for Capital Projects

Overview

In 2005, FTA implemented the Standard Cost Categories (SCC) to establish a consistent format for the reporting, estimating, and managing of capital costs for New Starts projects. Information gathered from projects across the country has been developed into a database called the...

STOPS - General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Data

Purpose

STOPS uses GTFS data to represent the transit services available in the project corridor. The GTFS data are an automated version of a transit operator’s timetable. The GTFS format is used by many transit agencies to communicate their schedules to on-line mapping programs and smartphone/...

STOPS - Supporting Information

Purpose

STOPS uses the zone-level demographic estimates for the current year and, optionally, some horizon year to scale the rows and columns of the 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) Journey-to-Work data to estimate travel flows for the year of interest. STOPS uses...

STOPS – Data from the Census

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 account for demographic growth and for changes in...

What’s new in STOPS version 2.53

Version 2.52 and 2.53 is an update that adds the ability to use 2012-2016 American Community Survey Census Transportation Planning Products and includes a GIS interface to ESRI’s ArcGIS Professional (version 3.2.2 and later). 

STOPS User Guide Version 2.53 full-resolution version

The Simplified Trips-on-Project Software (STOPS) is a series of programs designed to estimate transit project ridership using a streamlined set of procedures that bypass the time-consuming process of developing and applying a regional travel demand forecasting model.

STOPS User Guide Version 1.50 full-resolution version

The Simplified Trips-on-Project Software (STOPS) is a series of programs designed to estimate transit project ridership using a streamlined set of procedures that bypass the time-consuming process of developing and applying a regional travel demand forecasting model.