FTA issues Special Directive 24-7 to require the New York Public Transportation Safety Board (PTSB) to perform additional oversight activities to address an escalating pattern of safety incidents and concerns affecting transit workers at the...

President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes historic investments to support better, more reliable transit service

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal...

FTA is issuing a General Directive to address the significant and continuing national-level safety risk related to assaults on transit workers. The General Directive requires each transit agency subject to FTA's Public Transportation Agency Safety...

Grant Requirements and Eligibility

• How does FTA announce the annual SSO apportionment of funding?
• Which States are eligible to receive grant funding?
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Sunday, September 29

• Safety Rulemaking Updates Discussion
• FTA...

FTA's Office of System Safety, Division Chief Ivey Glendon discussed SMS and data management.

At their option, sponsors of New Starts and Small Starts projects may use a simplified method developed by FTA to quantify the measures used by FTA to evaluate and rate projects. STOPS is a limited implementation of the conventional "4-step" travel...

User Guide

The User Guide gives step-by-step instructions for the installation of the software, assembly of the required data, and preparation of the forecasts.

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Purpose

STOPS uses two kinds of data from the Census. First, it uses 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) Journey-to-Work data that tabulate worker flows and transit shares from the period. STOPS updates both the flows and the shares to...