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Public Transit

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About the Program

Overview Discretionary & Competitive Federal Grant Program Authorized up to $4.6 billion per year, subject to Congressional appropriations Funds light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, streetcar, and bus rapid transit projects IIJA outlines: Multi-year, multi-step process...

Federal Register Notices, Rules & Regulations

This site has Final Notices, Final Rules, and Regulations for the National Transit Database (NTD), other FTA programs that have NTD requirements, such as the Transit Asset Management (TAM) Program. In addition, information from the U.S. Census Bureau...

ARRA Transit Programs

ARRA appropriated $8.4 billion for three major transit programs. ARRA funds may be used only for capital projects (as defined in 49 USC 5302(a)(1)), and no local share is required. Less than one percent of the total funding ($64 million) was made available to FTA for oversight and administration...

TERM Lite and Federal

TERM Lite is an analysis tool designed to help transit agencies assess their State of Good Repair (SGR) backlog and other items.

Best Practices Procurement & Lessons Learned Manual (Report 0105)

This manual provides FTA grant recipients with detailed information about third-party procurement requirements to help improve internal processes and avoid pitfalls. The manual covers the entire procurement cycle: (1) Planning, (2) Selecting Type of Contracting Method, (3) Evaluation of...

2013 Annual Databases Vehicle Maintenance

Contains data on mechanical system failures for revenue vehicles. Categorized by other mechanical failures or major mechanical failures. Reported by mode and type of service. 

Keywords: urban, 5307, full, revenue vehicle system failures, interrupted service, system malfunctions, vehicle malfunctions, failure statistics

2013 Annual Database Transit Way Mileage

Contains data for high intensity busway (HIB) or FG segments reported by Full Reporters.

Keywords: urban, 5307, full, rail mode, track miles, at grade, exlusive right-of-way, with cross traffic, mixed and cross traffic, elevated, on structure, on fill, underground,open cut, subway tunnel, tube, lane miles, exclusive fixed guideway, high intensity busway, controlled access, HOV lanes, HOT lanes, segments,segment length, segment type, location, grade crossing, fixed guideway statistics, rail statistics

2013 Annual Databases Transit Station

Contains data on transit stations (boarding/deboarding facility with platform in a separate right of way), organized by mode and type of service (TOS).
 

Keywords: urban, 5307,  full, ssw, small system, ada accessible, non-ada accessible, stations, multi-modal, elevators, escalators, stops, passenger stations, metro stops, transit centers, transit hubs

2013 Annual Databases Transit Facility

Contains data on transit facilities (garages or buildings where mechanics perform routine maintenance and repairs).

Keywords: urban, 5307,  full, ssw, small system, facility type, general purpose, heavy maintenance, ownership type, size, capacity, number of revenue vehicles, maintenance facilities, leased facilities, transit building, vehicle garages, transit garages, maintenance garages

Administrator Dear Colleague Letters

FTA’s Dear Colleague letters are provided as guidance. 2024 Dear Colleague Letter: TrAMS Recipient Documents Enhancement Dear Colleague Letter: 2 CFR 200 and FY24 Circular Updates Implementation Dear Colleague Letter: Considerations for Transit Systems Providing Service During Major...