IMPACTS OF FEDERAL GRANT REQUIREMENTS ON TRANSIT AGENCIES

The research results in this report will be useful to transit agencies, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO's), UMTA, and legislators in complying with and revising federal capital grant requirements for transit rolling stock and maintenance facilities. Grantsmen and planners for transit agencies and MPO's will find of interest recommendations concerned with consolidating and streamlining documentation and procedural requirements. Officials with the Urban Mass Transportation Administration will find of interest recommendations to streamline award procedures and ideas for legislators drafting legislation. The costs and effects of federal grant requirements have been of increasing concern to transit agencies. One area of particular concern has been UMTA's Section 3 discretionary capital funding program. This report reviews the Section 3 grant application process and the impacts of transit agency compliance with promulgated regulations, administrative policies, and issued guidelines. Based on a survey of transit operator experience, impacts have been defined to include direct levels of effort; delays in project implementation; inflationary cost escalation, and a loss of management flexibility. Recommendations are presented in the report for streamlining the grant application procedure and document, and for improving coordination among participant agencies.

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• Authors:
  • Kret, E H
  • Mundle, S
• Publication Date: 1982-12

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 73 p.
• Serial:
  • NCTRP Report
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0732-4839

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Driver rehabilitation; Federal aid; Government funding; Grant aid; Impact studies; Maintenance facilities; Procurement; Regulations; Rolling stock; Specifications
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rehabilitation; Requirement
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00371045
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 29 1983 12:00AM