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This document provides guidance to Capital Investment Grant (CIG) program applicants on how to document existing weekday transit ridership in a proposed project corridor to determine if a New Starts or Small Starts project might be eligible for warrants.
FTA publishes templates that are used by project applicants to develop and report the necessary information to FTA. These templates are used for developing evaluation criteria and ratings.
Supplemental Land Use and Economic Development Information and Supporting Documentation templates for New Starts Projects.
New Starts and Core Capacity Process and Small Starts Process
Provides grants for new and expanded rail, bus rapid transit, and ferry systems that reflect local priorities to improve transportation options in key corridors.
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 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 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...
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).
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.