Public Transportation

Public Transportation
Author: Katherine Siggerud
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2009
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1437908500

Through the New Starts program, the Fed. Transit Admin. (FTA) evaluates and recommends new fixed guideway transit projects for funding using the evaluation criteria identified in law. In Aug. 2007, FTA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), in part, to incorporate certain provisions within the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) into the evaluation process. SAFETEA-LU requires an annual review of FTA¿s New Starts process. This report discusses: (1) the information captured by New Starts project justification criteria; (2) challenges FTA faces as it works to improve the New Starts program; and (3) options for evaluating New Starts projects. Includes recommend. Illus.

Survey of State Funding for Public Transportationâ¬"Ways to Improve It

Survey of State Funding for Public Transportationâ¬
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309431077

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 188: Survey of State Funding for Public Transportationâ€"Ways to Improve It includes suggestions on ways to potentially improve the Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation. Areas covered by the report include definition of major terms, post-submission data checks, improved accessibility, non-transit related ferry funding, and overall data collection. The Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation report, which is prepared under the auspices of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the American Public Transit Association, includes information on state-level public transportation funding, the source of funds, the potential use of funds, and the method of funding distribution for each transit program.

Public Transportation

Public Transportation
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781289138561

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Public Transportation

Public Transportation
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976390319

Public transportation : improvements are needed to more fully assess predicted impacts of New Starts projects : report to congressional committees.

Funding Strategies for Public Transportation

Funding Strategies for Public Transportation
Author: Price Waterhouse LLP.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309062633

Addresses the current state of funding for public transportation in the United States, the various circumstances that have contributed to today's funding environment, and specific strategies that transit agencies are pursuing to identify new sources of funding. The report is presented in two parts -- a final report and a casebook.

Amending the Urban Mass Transportation Act

Amending the Urban Mass Transportation Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1980
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Highway/transit Proposals

Highway/transit Proposals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1977
Genre: Federal aid to transportation
ISBN: