Fact Sheet: National Transit Database
BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW FACT SHEET
NATIONAL TRANSIT DATABASE
Program Purpose:
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), continues to authorize the National Transit Database (NTD), which serves as a repository for financial data, operating statistics, safety events, and asset conditions from American transit systems. FTA uses NTD data to apportion funding to urbanized and rural areas in the United States, to inform decision makers at all levels of government, and for research purposes. FTA collects this data from approximately 3,000 transit operators (NTD reporters).
Statutory References:
49 U.S.C. § 5335, IIJA § 30014
Covered Recipients:
Recipients of 5307 or 5311 funding
What’s Changed?
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law adds geographic service area coverage as a reporting requirement to the NTD. The law also requires data relating to assaults on transit workers and fatalities resulting from impact with a bus to be reported into the NTD.