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General

Legacy ID
31

For Contractors

The Best Practices Procurment Manual and Third-Party Procurement Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are both excellent resources for what is expected or required of contractors.  Definitions, resources, and helpful advice are provided.

Ethics

By law, recipients using FTA funds to award...

Online Tools & Resources

For the user's convenience, we have provided some useful web links. Access the desired link below:

Pricing guide for FTA Grantees (MS Word)Procurement System Self-Assessment GuideProcurement Systems Review Guide (PowerPoint)The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

TIGGER Program

This page is about FTA's TIGGER program.  For information about DOT's TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants visit http://www.dot.gov/recovery/.

Program Overview

Managed by FTA's Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation in coordination with the...

University Transportation Centers Program (TEA-21 5505)

Program Overview 

Grants for University Transportation Research (49 U.S.C. 5505) are awarded to non-profit institutions of higher learning by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) using funds appropriated to FTA.

This program focuses on the transfer of knowledge...

Transit Oriented Development Planning Pilot

Provides funding to advance planning efforts that support transit-oriented development (TOD) associated with new fixed-guideway and core capacity improvement projects. TOD focuses growth around transit stations to promote ridership, affordable housing near transit, revitalized downtown centers...

Transit Asset Management (5326)

This section establishes new requirements for transit asset management by FTA’s grantees as well as new reporting requirements to promote accountability. The goal of improved transit asset management is to implement a strategic approach for assessing needs and prioritizing investments for...

Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Projects (5312)

To support research activities that improve the safety, reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of public transportation by investing in the development, testing, and deployment of innovative technologies, materials, and processes; carry out related endeavors; and to support the...

Alcohol and Controlled Substances Testing

This program maintains authority for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to establish a program that requires grantees to conduct pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, random, and post-accident testing of public transportation employees responsible for safety-sensitive functions.

Clean Fuels Grant Program (5308)

Program Overview

Section 3010 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), Pub. L. No. 109-59, 119 Stat. 1144, 1572 (2005), amended section 5308 of title 49 United States Code, commonly referred to as the Clean Fuels Grant Program, from...