20.515 — State Planning and Research/Research & Development

Program Summary and Objectives
  • Federal Agency:  agency: department of transportation
    office: federal transit administration (fta)
  • Program Website: http://www.fta.dot.gov.
  • Authorization: 49 U.S.C. 5304.
  • Headquarters: FTA Office of Planning and Environment (TPE-10), Candace Noonan, Telephone: (202) 366-1648, Federal Transit Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E., Washington, DC 20590.

To assist in the development of cost effective multimodal transportation improvement programs which include the planning, engineering, and designing of Federal Transit projects, and other technical studies in a program for a unified and officially coordinated Statewide Transportation system.

Examples of Projects Funded

20.205, Highway Planning and Construction; 20.500, Federal Transit_Capital Investment Grants; 20.502, Federal Transit Grants for University Research and Training; 20.507, Federal Transit_Formula Grants; 20.505, Federal Transit_Metropolitan Planning Grants; 20.514, Public Transportation Research.

Program Accomplishments

Block grant funds to States for projects they identify to accomplish statewide planning and research.

Program Obligations
(as compiled by Subsidyscope)

Direct Expenditures Over Time