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Significant Regulatory Guidance
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Proposed General Directive 17-1: Stop Signal Overruns

This proposed FTA General Directive, Required Actions for Rail Fixed Guideway Public Transportation Systems and State Safety Oversight Agencies to Reduce the Frequency and Consequence of Stop Signal Overruns, addresses the combination of unsafe conditions and practices that...

FTA General Directives

FTA may issue general directives that are applicable to the entire transit industry or a subset of the industry when it: 

determines that an unsafe condition or practice, or a combination of unsafe conditions and practices, exists such that there is a risk of death or...

Report to Congress on Leasing Arrangements (Report 0110)

In this report to Congress, FTA details the inventory of rolling stock and related equipment under grantee lease agreements and leasing program activities as well as evaluates the leasing arrangements program including grantee data, benefit-cost analysis, and comparison of expected short- and...

2017 NTD Policy Manual

The Report Year 2017 Policy Manual for the National Transit Database (NTD) includes:

IntroductionReport Year 2017 Policy Changes and Reporting ClarificationsFinancial Data RequirementsService Data RequirementsSafety Data RequirementsAsset and Resource Data RequirementsFederal Funding...

Mobility Innovation Listening Session, January 16, 2019

Download this flyer with details about FTA's listening session at the Transportation Research Board's 2019 annual meeting. This session will discuss the launch of FTA’s Integrated Mobility Innovation Demonstration program. The program brings together the Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox...

FTA 2017 TAM Roundtable

FTA hosted the Seventh Transit Asset Management Roundtable from August 28-29, 2017 in Cambridge, MA.

Requirements for Application Executive Summary Dated June 30, 2016

Grantees working on new TrAMS Application are required to provide additional information in the Executive Summary of the TrAMS application. This is in addition to your traditional scope of work description, funding information, planning, etc… This additional information is required to ensure we...

New York City 2nd Ave Subway Phase 2 Profile

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) proposes to extend heavy rail subway service 1.5 miles along the East Side of Manhattan with the Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 project. The project is the second of four planned sections of the Second Avenue Subway, and will connect the...