FTA is exploring the use of automation technologies in transit bus operations. This fact sheet provides an overview of bus automation technologies and FTA's Strategic Transit...
News Archive
- July 29, 2019
- July 29, 2019
This issue includes FTA’s recently published Dear Colleague letter on the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan...
- July 26, 2019
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 appropriations for the Low or No Emission Grants Program (Low-No Program) and provides administrative...
- July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced $84.9 million in grant selections through the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant program, which funds...
- July 24, 2019
This TAM presentation was given by Mshadoni Smith of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) at the TAM Multimodal Roundtable on July 16-18, 2019.
- July 19, 2019
On July 19, 2019 FTA published a Dear Colleague letter to alert the transit industry of an important, upcoming safety deadline. July 19, 2019 marks one year from the compliance deadline for the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP)...
- July 19, 2019
This webinar transcript reflects the content of a June 18, 2019 webinar.
- July 19, 2019
Summary and links for the Charter Service Rule (January 14, 2008)
- July 15, 2019
This document includes important dates about FTA’s process for closing TrAMS for Fiscal Year 2019. It includes dates regarding ECHO and what you can and cannot do in TrAMS during the period when TrAMS closes and when TrAMS reopens for financial...
- July 12, 2019
Low-Floor Vehicles
Low-floor bus technology has evolved substantially. European fleets adopted low-floor bus technology in the 1980s. Early models had only a partial section of low-floor access (with a sloped floor or steps to access the rear...