No, there are no penalties, or incentives, for meeting or missing a TAM performance measures target. FTA and FHWA will review the MPO’s planning process to determine if the MPO and local planning partners have referenced the performance based...

No. For plans adopted before October 1, 2018, there is no requirement to include TAM performance measures or performance targets as part of your plans and programs.  Please note, however, that any amendment of your MTP or TIP after October 1,...

No.  The transit providers (or Group Plan sponsors) will share their targets annually with their respective MPO or MPOs.  The MPO’s targets are not required to be updated annually, but must be revisited when the MPO updates its MTP and/or...

Yes. These are local decisions. For national consistency in reporting the SGR performance measures, the performance metric calculations prepared by each transit provider (or Group Plan sponsor) to satisfy the TAM rule do not allow any weighting...

The term ‘private provider of public transportation by vanpool’ means a private entity providing vanpool services in the service area of a recipient of assistance under Chapter 53 using a commuter highway vehicle or vanpool vehicle.

Commuter highway vehicle and vanpool vehicle are vehicles with seating capacity for at least six (6) adults (not including the driver); and at least 80 percent of the mileage use can be reasonably expected to be for the purposes of transporting...

MAP-21 included a new provision specific to vanpool services. The law allows a vanpool provider to use revenues in excess of its operating expenses to acquire rolling stock as long as the private provider and the grantee enter into an agreement that...

The credit to be used as local match is calculated as follows: cost of the vans minus any Federal, state or local government assistance received.

If a grantee is seeking credit towards its local share with the use of Federal funds, they must provide the following information:

• Year of Purchase
• Vehicle Identification Number
• (A) Cost of Van
• (B) Amount of federal...

The information requested in the charts above can be attached in FTA’s Electronic Award Management System (EAMS), (e.g. TEAM or TrAMS).