FTA Safety Blitz Fact Sheet

The FTA WMATA Safety Oversight Office conducted a three-part WMATA Metrorail safety blitz focused on key areas of safety concern: red signal overruns, track integrity and rail vehicle securement.

U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $8 Million Funding Opportunity for Innovative Public Transportation Mobility

The Federal Transit Administration today announced an opportunity to apply for $8 million in federal funding for projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to mobility issues in public transportation. 

Bus and Bus Facilities/Low-No Competitive Grant Programs Presentation, April 19, 2016

This presentation provides an overview of FTA's Bus and Bus Facilities and Low-No Competitive Grant Programs funding opportunity, April 2016.

Bus and Bus Facilities and Low - No Program Q&As

2009 Appendix E: Failure to Report, Deletions and Reporting Waivers (not 9 or Fewer Waivers)

Lists agencies that failed to complete an NTD report, that received a waiver from FTA allowing them not to report for the current year, or that completed a report that FTA did not accept and thus deleted from the database.

Keywords: reporting deletion, reporting waiver, deletion, delete, nine or fewer, agency name, organization type, failure to report, did not report

2009 Appendix D: 2000 U.S. Urbanized Areas (UZAs), Populations, Square Miles and Densities Reported by Transit Agencies

Lists the primary urbanized areas reported by each agency, and size (number of vehicles operated). 

Keywords: uza number, name, population, area, density, organization type, cities, city, demographic information, demographic statistics, vehicles operated in maximum service, voms, agency size, square miles

2009 Appendix C: Transit Agency Identification (Alphabetically by State and Transit ID number)

Contains basic information about each transit agency.

Keywords: organization type, ntd id, agency name, city, state, ceo, phone number, primary urbanized area, urbanized area population, service area size, fiscal year end date, and vehicles operated in maximum service, voms, demographics, demographic information, cities, city, population statistics

2009 Appendix B: Transit Agencies Receiving Reporting Waivers (Approved By FTA)

Lists all agencies that reported as small systems and thus completed a reduced report.

Keywords: reduced, small system, 30 or fewer, ssw, reduced reporting, reduced voms, agency size

2009 Appendix A:Transit Agencies Cross-Referenced for Fleet Size Categories

Gives vehicles operated in maximum service (voms) by type of service (directly operated or purchased transportation) by agency total.

Keywords: cross check, comparison, voms, fleet vehicles, fleet size, fleet statistics, vehicles operated in maximum service, agency size, range of service provided, type of service comparison

2009 Table 27: Service Supplied and Consumed Ratios

Gives several ratios expressing cost per unit service, by agency, mode, and type of service (TOS), as well as cost per mile by cost function.

Keywords: cost per vehicle, cost per hour, cost per trip, cost per passenger mile, cost per employee work hour, cost pers, cost statistics