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TECHNICAL GUIDANCE ON SECTION 5309 NEW STARTS CRITERIA

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has developed this guidance to document the application and reporting procedures for the Section 5309 New Starts criteria. This guidance will assist local agencies in submitting information and documentation of the New Starts criteria for the proposed transit investments to FTA. The criteria, which replace those in effect since 1984, will be applied for the first time in the development of the ratings and New Starts project profiles to be included in the upcoming report, FY 1999 Annual Report on Funding Levels for Transit New Starts. This report provides background information on the development of the revised criteria as well as guidance on their application. It also includes guidance on development and reporting of New Starts criteria along with multiple measures addressing mobility improvements, environmental benefits, operating efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, transit-supportive existing land use and future patterns, other factors, and local financial commitment. The use of consistent measures, data inputs, and analytical assumptions as outlined in this guidance is intended to improve the quality of information provided to FTA by project sponsors and to support FTA's decisionmaking process.

  • Corporate Authors:

    Federal Transit Administration

    Office of Planning, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
    Washington, DC  United States  20590
  • Publication Date: 1997-9

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Pagination: 204 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00742522
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Federal Transit Administration
  • Report/Paper Numbers: FTA-TPL-20-97-4
  • Files: TRIS, USDOT
  • Created Date: Nov 7 1997 12:00AM