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Capital Investments

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Overview

FTA is committed to ensuring that FTA grant recipients comply with all laws, regulations, and agency policy related to the acquisition of real property for use on federally -assisted transit projects. FTA recipients must ensure all private property owners and displaced persons are...

Proposed New Starts and Small Starts Policy Guidance

This document describes the measures and methods for calculating the project justification and local financial commitment criteria required by statute for New and Small Starts projects and included in the Final Rule. The regulation and its appendix act as a framework for the New and Small Starts...

Travel Forecasts

Several FTA project-evaluation measures rely on travel forecasts prepared by sponsors of proposed New Starts and Small Starts projects. In its reviews to ensure their usefulness in project evaluation, FTA considers five aspects of the forecasts:

The properties of the forecasting methods;The...

Quality Management System Guidelines

These Quality Management System Guidelines are for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grantees that are undertaking design, construction, or equipment acquisition programs. They may also be used as a guideline for grantees in establishing a Quality Management System (QMS) related to their...

Annual Report on Funding Recommendations

Each year FTA is required by law to prepare an annual report to Congress recommending Capital Investment Grant projects for funding and listing the results of FTA evaluations and ratings of the projects. These reports are companion documents to the President’s budget requests to Congress...

About the Program

Overview Discretionary & Competitive Federal Grant Program Authorized up to $4.6 billion per year, subject to Congressional appropriations Funds light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, streetcar, and bus rapid transit projects IIJA outlines: Multi-year, multi-step process...