Applying to Small Starts

Applying to New Starts

New Starts Reporting Instructions (2015) (MS Word)

New Starts Templates Part 1 (2015) (Excel)

New Starts Templates Part 2 (2015) (MS Word)

Standard Cost Categories (SCC) for Capital Projects

Documenting existing ridership to qualify for warrants (MS Word)

Troubleshooting for the Capital Cost Database – 2010 Version

Trouble Shooting for the Capital Cost Database – 2010 VersionCovers:

Capital Cost Database - Purpose and Suggested Use

The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA’s) Capital Cost Database (CCD) is a Microsoft Access application developed to support the following uses:

Project Development Process MAP-21 CIG program

New Starts and Core Capacity Process and Small Starts Process

Fact Sheet - Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (New Starts) Section 5309

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 - General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Data

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

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

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).