Program Summary and Objectives

• Federal Agency:  agency: department of transportation
  office: federal transit administration (fta)
• Program Website: http://www.fta.dot.gov.
• Authorization: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Public Law 109-59, 49 U.S.C 5303.
• Headquarters: Sylvia L. Marion, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, washington, District of Columbia 20590 Phone: (202) 366-6680.

To assist in development of transportation improvement programs, long-range transportation plans, and other technical studies in metropolitan areas.

Examples of Projects Funded

20.205 Highway Planning and Construction; 20.500 Federal Transit_Capital Investment Grants; 20.507 Federal Transit_Formula Grants; 20.514 Public Transportation Research; 20.515 State Planning and Research

Program Accomplishments

Fiscal Year 2008: Multimodal transportation planning studies are emphasized through coordinated funding with other DOT administrations. Refinement of the transit elements of long-range plans and an expansion of short-range planning for improvements to the existing urban transportation system are also emphasized. Capital transportation improvement programs are produced annually/biennially as well as metropolitan transportation plans. The program of ready-to-go transit projects was doubled in 2009 to speed up the implementation of projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Fiscal Year 2009: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2010: No Current Data Available

Program Obligations
(as compiled by Subsidyscope)

Direct Expenditures Over Time