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STOPS - Documentation and Software

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.

STOPS User Guide Version 2.53 (PDF) full-resolution version Software

The software comes in a compressed ("...

An Overview of STOPS

The 2013 Final Rule on major capital investment projects revised the measures that FTA uses to evaluate and rate proposed major transit projects. Among the revised measures, the Final Rule specifies that mobility benefits are now measured as the predicted number of trips that would use the...

STOPS – FTA’s Simplified Trips-on-Project Software

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 model. STOPS replaces the standard trip...

NEPA and Early Real Estate Activities

November 1, 2012

Topics

Pre-Award Authority for relocations and property acquisitionsCorridor Preservation under MAP-21Hardship and Protective BuysAllowable ROW Activities during NEPA