Public Transit
Biden-Harris Administration Requires Transit Agencies Nationwide to Address Assaults Against Transit Workers
WASHINGTON – Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to protecting America's frontline transit workers from assault, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced General Directive 24-1: Required Actions Regarding Assaults on...
STOPS – Modifying General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Data
PurposeSTOPS users are required to represent transit service changes offered by new projects in GTFS format. STOPS users can embed these service changes in GTFS by: 1) engaging with transit agency schedulers, 2) using commercial software that allows graphical service plan editing and...
Carrie Butler
FTA Region 7 Regional AdministratorCarrie Butler joined the Federal Transit Administration in September 2024 as the Regional Administrator for Region 7. She and her team oversee the federal funding for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The office provides grant development and program...
Rail Transit Grade Crossing Safety Data Fact Sheet
FTA has developed a Rail Grade Crossing (RGX) Fact Sheet communicating the current transit RGX safety landscape, transit RGX collision trends and incidents and collisions data. FTA analyzes data reported to the National Transit Database (NTD) to monitor transit RGX incidents, injuries and...
FY2024 Passenger Ferry Grant Program Announcement of Project Selections and Implementation Guidance
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 and prior funding appropriations for the Passenger Ferry Grant Program and provides administrative guidance on project implementation.
2024 FTA TAM Roundtable Summary Report
This summary report from the 2024 TAM Roundtable provides information on high-level themes from agency presentations, breakout group activities, larger group Q&A, and general discussions.