Program Summary and Objectives

• Federal Agency:  agency: department of transportation
  office: federal transit administration (fta)
• Program Website: http://www.fta.dot.gov/funding/grants/grants_financing_3550.html
• Authorization: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient & Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for users (SAFETEA-LU), Title 49, Part 53, Section 5316, Public Law 109-59, 49 U.S.C 5317.
• Headquarters: Sylvia L. Marion 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, East Building-Fourth Floor, Washington, District of Columbia 20590 Phone: (202) 366-6680

To provide grants to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and designated recipients of Federal transit funding to develop transportation services to connect welfare recipients and low- income persons to employment and support services. Job Access grants will be to finance planning, capital and operating cost of projects. The Reverse Commute grants will assist in funding the costs associated with adding reverse commute bus, train, carpool or service from urban areas, urban, rural and other suburban locations to suburban work places.

Examples of Projects Funded

20.505 Federal Transit_Metropolitan Planning Grants; 20.507 Federal Transit_Formula Grants; 20.509 Formula Grants for Other Than Urbanized Areas; 20.513 Capital Assistance Program for Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities; 20.515 State Planning and Research

Program Accomplishments

Fiscal Year 2008: Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) services in 45 States and the District of Columbia have been funded through more than 450 grants and grant amendments.
An evaluation of the JARC program provided to Congress in January 2009 reported that the JARC program is meeting its mission of providing low-income persons with transportation to entry-level job opportunities; the cost-per-ride of JARC services is comparable to other public transit services; the JARC program produces tangible economic benefits to users of the services and the public at large; the JARC program may also produce long-term benefits for users; and participants in the coordinated public transit human service transportation planning process indicated that this process resulted in improvements in s ... »read moreervice coordination. Additional information on the performance of the JARC program can be found on FTA’s website, http://www.fta.dot.gov/funding/grants/grants_financing_7175.html. Fiscal Year 2009: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2010: No Current Data Available

Program Obligations
(as compiled by Subsidyscope)

Direct Expenditures Over Time