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Streamlining the Federal New Starts/Small Starts Program

1/25/2012

Dear Colleague:

Last night, President Obama presented a blueprint for an economy built to last over the long term and called on the federal government to do its part to deliver solutions to expand opportunities for all Americans while cutting red tape.

The Federal Transit...

Travel Forecasts

Several FTA project-evaluation measures rely on travel forecasts prepared by sponsors of proposed New Starts and Small Starts projects. In its reviews to ensure their usefulness in project evaluation, FTA considers five aspects of the forecasts:

The properties of the forecasting methods;The...

Annual Report on Funding Recommendations

Each year FTA is required by law to prepare an annual report to Congress recommending Capital Investment Grant projects for funding and listing the results of FTA evaluations and ratings of the projects. These reports are companion documents to the President’s budget requests to Congress...

How to Apply for a Reporting ID

To begin NTD reporting, you will need to request an ID number for your agency. You may do so by completing the information required in the NTD ID Request Application.

Background on Reporting to the NTD Who reports to the National Transit Database (NTD)?

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About the Program

Overview Discretionary & Competitive Federal Grant Program Authorized up to $4.6 billion per year, subject to Congressional appropriations Funds light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, streetcar, and bus rapid transit projects IIJA outlines: Multi-year, multi-step process...

National Transit Reporting Tool

To access the NTD Reporting Tool log in using your Login.gov information which matches your email address associated with NTD.  When logging in, please click on "If you are an External User, click this link to log in" from the landing page.

On Sept. 10, 2021, FTA began using...

Multimodal Discretionary Grants (TIGER)

This page is about DOT's TIGER grants.  For information about FTA's TIGGER (Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction) program visit Grants Program.

ARRA made $1.5 billion available to the Department of Transportation for a multi-modal discretionary program...

Capital Investment Grants

ARRA appropriated $750 Million for Capital Investment Grants.  The funds are for major capital projects eligible under the discretionary Section 5309 New Starts/Small Starts program, with statutory consideration to be given to projects already under construction and that could obligate...