New Starts Templates Part 2

Supplemental Land Use and Economic Development Information and Supporting Documentation templates for New Starts Projects.

Project Development Process MAP-21 CIG program

New Starts and Core Capacity Process and Small Starts Process

Fact Sheet - Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (New Starts) Section 5309

Provides grants for new and expanded rail, bus rapid transit, and ferry systems that reflect local priorities to improve transportation options in key corridors.

STOPS - General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Data

STOPS uses GTFS data to represent the transit services available in the project corridor. The GTFS data are an automated version of a transit operator’s timetable. The GTFS format is used by many transit agencies to communicate their schedules to on-line mapping programs and smartphone/...

STOPS - Supporting Information

STOPS uses the zone-level demographic estimates for the current year and, optionally, some horizon year to scale the rows and columns of the 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) Journey-to-Work data to estimate travel flows for the year of interest. STOPS uses...

STOPS – Data from the Census

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 account for demographic growth and for changes in...

What’s new in STOPS version 2.53

Version 2.52 and 2.53 is an update that adds the ability to use 2012-2016 American Community Survey Census Transportation Planning Products and includes a GIS interface to ESRI’s ArcGIS Professional (version 3.2.2 and later). 

STOPS User Guide Version 2.53 full-resolution version

The Simplified Trips-on-Project Software (STOPS) is a series of programs designed to estimate transit project ridership using a streamlined set of procedures that bypass the time-consuming process of developing and applying a regional travel demand forecasting model.

STOPS User Guide Version 1.50 full-resolution version

The Simplified Trips-on-Project Software (STOPS) is a series of programs designed to estimate transit project ridership using a streamlined set of procedures that bypass the time-consuming process of developing and applying a regional travel demand forecasting model.

STOPS - Documentation and Software

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

The software comes in a compressed ("...